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Compassionate care is what nursing is all about. However, how do nurses receive compassionate care? We need compassion in order to get through our busy days.
Pioneering Spirit Award
Dr. Fontaine recently won the AACN Pioneering Spirit Awa...
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We had just finished our Monday morning hospice report. As a group, we routinely meet for 30 minutes on Monday morning to share admissions and deaths over the weekend. I was preparing my schedule for the day, still thinking of a patient that had just...
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I had an elective orthopedic procedure requiring a three day stay. "Elective" is a bit of a stretch- a joke actually. I guess there are some superhuman people who could walk around without any cartilage on the lateral side of their knee, but I am not...
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I'm writing this article on my bed, wiping my tears away and making sure that this article makes sense to those who are reading it. I just finished a 13-hour shift yesterday night at the CVICU. I am in my final semester of nursing school and I am so ...
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That One Patient takes the shape of many different things, and for me, it was Mr. Smith, a patient admitted with Altered Mental Status due to an infection in his spine that had allegedly gone to his brain and made him a completely different person th...
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Below are three instances where a dose of compassion resulted in good medicine. Case 1:“I feel like my body is betraying me. I’m only 55 and everything seems to be falling apart,” the patient I was sitting with cried as she spoke with the nurse that ...
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I’ve spent most of my career in busy Emergency Departments and Urgent Care. The fast-paced environment and high patient turnover mean I don’t get to spend much time with each patient. From triage to discharge, my job is to give compassionate care in ...
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Dear Nurse, I hope you get the time to read this one because its written just for you. I know you can never have enough time to do all you have to do, let alone to read this letter but I hope you can sit awhile and ponder on these words. You are tire...
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Nursing, a caring profession or is this a lame description?Caring is such a mild description of what nurses are about. I believe the word care or caring are no longer adequate to describe what we as nurses do as a profession. I really do think you ha...
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Four years ago, my father died. We were all expecting him to die since he was a terminal cancer patient, however, when his life began to end we were in complete shock. Chalk it up to denial or hope, we were completely surprised when the time actually...
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In choosing a career as noble and honorable as nursing, having the responsibility of being trusted to care for those who are stricken with illness should always be considered the core of our profession. However, we sometimes overlook the feelings of ...
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The best nurses are compassionate and empathetic by nature, so it's no surprise that emotional exhaustion is one of the primary causes of "nurse burnout" - a term used to encompass the physical, mental and emotional fatigue nurses can experience afte...
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This precious time gave the patient the ability to share the story, thus allowing the nurse to show emotions and be empathetic towards the patient. Later, this small moment of time, resulted in a small return favor that showed a great appreciation fo...
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After five days off, I drive to work singing. I'm a little off-key, but the windows are up, and my favorite songs are all queued up in preparation for the forty or so minutes my car will take to weave through 1740 traffic on my way to a place that I ...
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Privately, Mrs. R described this student as a usually happy-go-lucky individual who did very well in school and was well liked by many of her peers. One morning, however, she received a phone call from one of this student's teachers explaining to Mrs...
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It was a week before Christmas when he had an unexpected accident at home, and my twin sister had found him on the garage floor. He had fallen out of the 12-foot ceiling and onto the cement floor. He was trying to get the Christmas tree. He required ...
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I saw him, with his wrinkled face and with tears in his eyes. I wondered how life must be for him, living for eighty-two years in this world. He repeats the question he had asked minutes ago. He tells his story again and again. I have to repeat mysel...
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Have you ever broken a promise?
With my kids, I take care to only make promises that I can keep. Their trust in me is too important to overpromise and underdeliver. As a CEO, I carry that same high standard to promises made to my team.
Doe...
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It is my day off but I'm up before the sun. I shower and put on my scrubs and drive across town through rush-hour traffic to my second job, the one I don't get paid a dime for. I arrive at the free clinic and greet the other staff as we make coffee a...
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It was a typical day in the emergency room. Ambulances were consistently calling and patients who walked in were lining up to be triaged. I was somewhere between working up a cardiac patient and a gastrointestinal bleed when I saw her... Tears were f...
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Having been a nurse of some type over the last 30 years. I have had many patients who have endeared my heart to further my education in nursing. I have two particular patients to whom I owe my education in life and nursing.
The first patient was...
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When you look at me, I look like your normal average person. People have assumed I am smart, and I never knew why. But, it hasn't always been that way. I have fought strong and hard to be where I am today. I have epilepsy, but I don't let it define w...
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I remember working at a hospital in Tucson, AZ that is no longer even open now. I was pulled to one of the medical-surgical floors and was assigned to the back half of the hall. The way this unit was designed, you barely even went that way unless you...
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He was shaken to his core but he faced the surgery with remarkable equanimity and had the amputation knowing that he would have to learn how do things very differently from now on. He plunged gamely into his physical therapy even while still healing ...
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One patient sticks out tonight... I felt really bad for this older gentleman I took care of today. He came in 79 year old male with new onset shortness of breath. You could tell he was in CHF. He had edema all over his body, rales, and all that good ...
