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Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.

glad to have you, ursula. o s da nah goo say (good luck) with your new job. naimaidofwaterspring.jpg

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Specializes in Jill of all trades, master of none?.

I just found your thread today. I have (evidence, but not proof of) some native blood, and was married to a full-blood Shoshone for a couple of years. During that time, we lived totally within native circles, other than interacting with the public to sell his art. We met at a pow wow, and our lives revolved around pow wows. After our divorce, I finally quit going to pow wows, as we kept crossing paths (ugh) when I least expected it. What a way to ruin a good pow wow, lol! One of my fantasies (I have many) is to travel after finishing nursing school, and potentially work on a rez. Perhaps this site can help me stay connected. Thanks, Wolfie!

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I am not NAI but Chinese (so I figure we have some common ancestors way back there).

In reply to the question on "what has this got to do with nursing?" I say everything! How can you separate the spiritual, what has happened to one in society, personal life and what is going on with someone physically?

That question exemplifies how NAI or other people with more holistic ways of being are misunderstood by those who work from a reductionistic paradigm and why the therapies used from that paradigm have limited success. There are a whole different set of assumptions about what constitutes health or healing. If someone dies, that can be successful healing. The dominant paradigm does not understand this.

So much more to say but I'll stop here.

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Specializes in Telemetry.

Hello everyone :welcome:

I just joined the site. I will be graduating in December 2007. It's been a long road and the sun should rise soon (I hope).

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Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.

hello, mescalero, and welcome to allnurses.com

so good to have you with us.

oh see you dee gah luh wee sss dah nay dee dee day low kwa sss dee. (loose translation: good luck on your journey through school).

we hope you enjoy the site. naimaidofwaterspring.jpg

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