Evolving As A Nurse: The Work of the Soul

The evolution of a nurse and his or her career is a very individual experience, and this experience expresses the spirit, nature and personality of the nurse in question. And when soul is infused into that journey, the entire tenor of the journey is deeply and irrevocably changed. When considering the arc of a nurse's career, one can easily picture hospital rooms, patients, stethoscopes, syringes, and other ubiquitous trappings of "nurseness". This is all well and good (and assuredly pedestrian in nature), and I would add that there is much more to one's evolution than the usual flotsam and jetsam that make up the life of a nurse in the 21st century.The Development of CompassionCompassion is not necessarily something that always naturally comes with the territory, yet one would hope that most nurses connect with, develop and deepen their ability to experience compassion through the medium of their work.As my friend Michael Ortiz Hill (Registered Nurse, initiated Medicine Man and author) is fond of saying, compassion is actually a "craft" that can be taught, learned and mastered in the course of one's career or lifetime. He contends that nurses are well-positioned to take this craft to a very deep level vis-a-vis patient care, as long as they are also able to cultivate that same profound compassion for themselves. This is no easy task, especially for the nurse whose focus is always on the outer world, not the internal world within his or her own soul and psyche.Tasks Are Overr...
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