Book Review: Sky the Oar, Poems by Stacy R. Nigliazzo

Sky The Oar poems by Stacy R. Nigliazzo Publisher: Press 53, 2018 Stacy R. Nigliazzo is a poet living in … More

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Shift Observations

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AJN Best of The Blog Features Post by JparadisiRN

It’s an honor to have my post and illustration, A Brief Meditation on Love, Loss, and Nursing, originally published on Off the … More

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Down the Rabbit Hole

Why is it 2018 feels more like “2017, The Sequel,“ and not an actual New Year? While I have one or … More

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Cancer Survivorship: Breaking The Myth of “Nurses are Bad Patients”

Are nurses are the worse patients? Upon completion of treatment for breast cancer, my surgeon remarked, “You got through treatment … More

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Back From The Digital Future: My Return to Paper and Ink Books

My adult life I’ve had an unreasonable fear of being without a book to read. The anxiety is triggered when … More

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Applying Nursing Process and Knowing When to Quit

It was several more days later before I ripped out the knitted sleeve I wrote of in my last … More

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Plateaus, New Goals, & My First Failure of 2018

2017 was a challenging year for me in many ways, some good, some not so much, but it ended positively. … More

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Random Thoughts on The Freedom of Speech, Nostalgia, and The 4th of July

I learned about freedom of speech in the public elementary school of the small town where I grew up. Our teachers taught us to temper our opinions with civility and common sense: “Freedom of speech doesn’t allow you to yell, ‘Fire!’ in a crowded movie theater,” we were instructed. Or as another teacher graphically put it, “Your freedom of speech extends to the end of your nose,” meaning you have the right to say it, but your words may earn you a punch in the face.

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A Nurse’s Sketch Book

Nearly a year ago, I wrote a post about mindfulness and found time for creativity, in which I described … More