Tag Archives: nursing school
FMM 3 3 2023 Practice what you Preach
“What you do speaks so loud, that I cannot hear what you say.”~ C. L. Stuart. I suppose all of us can identify a teacher that made a huge impression on us as a child, for good or bad. In teaching ‘dosage calculation’ to nursing students, it is clear that many are traumatized by some […]
FMM 11 25 22 Metamorphosis
“The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.” ~ Lao Tzu. When I was a teenager, one of my sisters, who was already in nursing school, came home to Jamaica to visit. She brought presents for us, and mine was a big, shiny, coffee-table type illustrated book of […]
FMM 3 25 2022 I will remember you
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ~ Maya Angelou. My childhood was filled with all kinds of music, from hymns and gospel music; soundtracks of musicals; calypso and jazz; classical and blues; reggae and rock and roll; it wasn’t until I went […]
FMM 10 15 2021 The Sound of Silence
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” ~ Anton Chekhov. I don’t remember learning about ‘therapeutic communication’ when I was in nursing school forty years ago. Of course, some concepts have earned names which change over time, but being taught how to respond to patients, especially […]
FMM 8 27 2021 No Excuses!
“I attribute my success to this—I never gave or took any excuse” ~ Florence Nightingale. I have to confess that it took me a while to learn to respect Florence Nightingale. I had read the story of the ‘Lady with the lamp’, so I knew something about her, growing up. In nursing school, they didn’t […]
FMM 3 25 2021 Mean to Me
“The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.” ~ Robin S. Sharma. I was already halfway through a nostalgia-filled weekend when I heard the news. I had been following up on family connections having found a website that gives access to birth, marriage and death certificates, and was tracing long […]
FMM 5 8 2020 Doing the Right Thing
“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi. I left home at the age of eighteen and a half, finished with high school, ready to enter the profession of nursing. The weird thing about growing up in a small […]
FMM 4 24 2020 The Ties that Bond
“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.” ~ Epictetus. We are living through an amazing time. There are eras in your life that are special. When I started in nursing school in England in the 70s, I knew absolutely […]
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