Nurses can make a difference

thanks for brining this authors thoughts to us!

found some of her writings here: the gift of change by marianne williamson

very applicable to nurses.

the challenge to grow

whether we like it or not, life today is different in ways we never expected. the speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it's increasingly difficult to reconcile the rhythms of our personal lives with the rapidity of a twenty-four-hour news cycle.

dramatic endings and beginnings seem more prevalent than usual. birth, death, divorce, relocation, aging, career change—not to mention the fact that the world itself seems so irrevocably altered—all seem to hail some kind of sea change. things we thought stable and secure seem less so, and things we thought distant possibilities have come strangely close. many people feel right now like we're jumping out of our skin. it's gone way past uncomfortable into a haunting sense that we might be living a lie.

it's not that our relationships lack integrity or our careers don't truly jive with our deepest soul purpose. it's deeper than that - some sense that reality is like a layer of cellophane separating us from a truly magical existence. we feel some loss of meaning like a sickness we can't shake. we would love to burst out, as though we've been crouching in a small box for a long time. we ache to spread our arms and legs and backs, to throw our heads back, to laugh with glee at the feel of sunshine on our faces. we can't remember when we last did that. or when we did, it was like taking a vacation, visiting a tourist attraction. the most marvelous things about life don't seem to make up the fabric of our normal existence anymore. or maybe they never did. we're not sure. ...

the times in which we live call for fundamental change, not merely incremental change. millions of people feel called in their souls to the task of global transformation, wanting to be its agents in a monumental shift from a world of fear to a world of love. we can feel the time is now, and we know we're the ones to do it. the only problem is, we don't exactly know how.

hopefully our discussions here and the lived experience of many 10, 20 and 50 year lpn's and rn's help each other create a new working healthcare environment along with full life!

in my state, i sense a fundamental shift to fully included rn's in all healthcare decisions. we need to seize the opportunity and get credit for the healthcare contributions we've been making for the past 100+ years!