Whether you’re an aspiring artist, writer, or cancer patient, support groups can offer encouragement and resources to help you on … More
Category: Posts About Nursing
Diplomacy, Apologies and Boneheads
Diplomacy is as necessary to successful nursing as IV skills, medication administration accuracy, and critical thinking. In fact, diplomacy is … More
What Drawing Has in Common With Nursing
Telling Our Stories to Benefit Others is my latest blog post for TheONC; the online community for oncology care teams. Registering … More
A Get Well Card for Warren Buffet
As an oncology nurse, if I listened to the family members of an affluent, elderly patient debating at his bedside … More
The Rise of Blogs in Nursing Practice
Joni Watson presents blogging’s validity as a useful tool for the professional growth of nurses in her article, The Rise … More
Knitting for Communication This Week at TheONC
This week, I blog about Knitting and Communication for TheONC. It’s a confessional post about lacking the right words for … More
Stains
It’s a rare night that I can’t sleep. I’m trying to remove, without waking David, yellow vegetable dye stains of … More
New Creativity Blog Post Up at TheONC
This week’s blog for TheONC is The Art of Subtraction: More Thoughts on Clutter. The topic is based on my … More
Shift Observations: The End of The Dinosaur
With the care of an archeologist sifting for fossils, I hold his right arm for a second time, turning it … More
Commitment Makes You an Artist (or Nurse)
If you aren’t reading the blogs at TheONC, you should. I’ve incorporated much new information from my blogger colleagues into my … More