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The appendix in bed one
A nurse’s reflection on the importance of person centred care
Born to nurse
An exquisite journey through a life destined to care.
Florence Nightingale and the qualities of true nursing
Florence had it… have we lost it? Do we still value the warmth, love and care so natural to us that goes hand in hand with our technical skill?
Self care meets true care in nursing
Nursing is an incredible profession. Sometimes we can become so busy with all that we need to do for people in our care that we can overlook how powerful the simplicity of nursing care really is. Very simply we are in a position where we can connect deeply to people through...
Midwifery wisdom and knowledge – an important pair
To work within hospital guidelines, seek best practice, learn from every woman in our care, read up on conditions, understand mechanisms and ask questions when unsure is our gold standard of midwifery care for women. We work within frameworks to keep women, babies and...
Taking care of ourselves in the enormity of our work as midwives
It would be rose-tinted to pretend working as a midwife is an easy job… that is the ‘enormity’ bit and it is all too common to find ourselves overwhelmed, in levels of shock and/or exhausted at the end of a shift. What happens next is key to how we feel ongoingly. Do we focus...
Human Diamonds
How one nurse who works in aged care learns more everyday about the value of each resident and colleague and also their own value as a nurse, shining a different angle of the one ‘human diamond’.
Self care – you must be kidding!
If anyone had said to me twelve years ago, that self-care was essential for nurses to look after themselves and to equally manage their work day more effectively I would have probably thought that it was a joke. Back then, I was working as a clinical manager in a 75 bed Aged...