Book Review: "Nursing From Within" by Elizabeth Scala

Spiritual Practice Nurse Elizabeth Scala is a nurse, Reiki Master, healer, certified coach, facilitator, teacher, author and speaker. Her latest book, "Nursing From Within: A Fresh Alternative to Putting Out Fires and Self-Care Workarounds", is her own prescription for reinvigorating your nursing practice with heart, self-love, balance and magic.  Each chapter of "Nursing From Within" begins with a personal reflection by Elizabeth, and her vulnerability sets the stage as she demonstrates her own journey and the ways in which she has integrated these teachings into her own personal and professional lives. With exhortations to bring more fun, art, joy, heart, love, faith, healing and presence into our work as nurses, Ms. Scala uses real-life examples and stories to clearly illustrate her point. The author uses her latest book as a soapbox for her vision of nursing as a profession that not only heals through science, but also heals through the often forgotten art of nursing. Briefly describing the concepts of Newtonian scientific reductionism as compared to quantum physics, Ms. Scala hopes that readers will accept the basic concepts of quantum science as a given, seeing how the energy within all life can be harnessed for the good of all---including the nurse him- or herself. She contends that the science of nursing (quite Newtonian and reductionist in essence) has superseded and overshadowed the lost art of nursing, and it is our duty and responsibility to bring t...
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