Nurse Keith's Messages For Nurses

Many of you are aware that I'm the resident blogger for LPNtoBSNOnline.org. Recently, I've written a four-week series of "messages" for nurses, and I'm so pleased with the results that I'd like to share them with the readers of Digital Doorway. ~~~~~~~~ "A Message to the Nurse's Heart"This post is all about your heart. Here's an excerpt:Nursing can be a great profession that fulfills our hearts and uplifts our spirits, but it can also be a profession that beats us down and wears us out. Our careers can be a mixed bag, and we have to care for ourselves in order to not burn to a crisp, becoming a cynical, calloused and crusty nurse who loses touch with his or her compassionate heart. To read more, click here.  ~~~~~~~~ "A Message to the Nurse's Head"This post is, of course, all about your head.  If your heart has indeed been bruised or wounded in the course of your nursing career, what’s happened to your head, nurses? What ideas are floating around in there that aren’t good for you? What messages have you taken on that need to be unchained and released? What beliefs about yourself have you internalized? To read more, click here.~~~~~~~~ "A Message to the Nurse's Soul"The nurse's soul needs attention, too.  So, what about your soul can you not find in a book? Nurse, how do you care for your soul? Nursing is not an easy job, and no one ever said it would be. How do you keep your soul, your spirit, afloat so that your job doesn’t eat you a...
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