Tag Archives: nursing
FMM 3 5 2021 Threats and Opportunities
“An awareness of one’s mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.” ~ Bernie Siegel. I can’t say that I loved Physics when I was in high school. I was amused by one of our teachers who demonstrated the movement of molecules and how it changed as they got heated […]
FMM 10 9 2020 Kindness is a boomerang (Recycled)
“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”~Dalai Lama. I am a nurse first. When I think of the roles I play in life, I know in my heart that my passion is nursing. One of the many wonderful things about being a nurse is that it encompasses many job descriptions. For the past […]
FMM 7 26 19 Don’t get it Twisted
“The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.” ~ George Eliot. “Farmer Jones walked up the path, drunk as usual.” I have never forgotten that line, the opening line to a book thrust into my hands when I was maybe eight years old. I had just started school in the hills of […]
FMM 2 22 19 Consonance, assonance, resonance
“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe. I am a pragmatist by nature. It was when my children were finishing high school and thinking of college and their future careers that I realized that when it comes to job security, I favor the […]
FMM 8 24 18 New World Order
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”~ Stephen Hawking. I never forget the first time I heard the saying that the definition of insanity is doing things the same way and expecting to get different results. I was in one of those continuing education classes, trying to get my hours at the last minute […]
FMM 10 20 17 Exceeding Expectations
“Put your heart, mind and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” ~ Swami Sivananda. I always wanted to be a nurse. I had two dress-up outfits as a child. One was a cowgirl outfit. It came with the sheriff’s badge, a waistcoat, skirt and holster with gun. Oh yes, […]
FMM 5 26 17 Which Path?
“Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.”~Viktor E. Frankl. I am a Mancunian by birth. That means that I know that the correct pronunciation of the city’s name is Manchister, with the emphasis on the first syllable. I lived there until I was […]
FMM 8 7 15 Being and Knowing
Set a better example (Better set an example)~Alton Ellis. Teaching and learning are two completely different concepts. Ask any teacher! You may teach your heart out, but if learning has not taken place, you were ineffective. When I think of the image of a college professor standing in a large auditorium, expounding at great length […]
FMM 5 15 15 Points of Contact
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” ~ Booker T. Washington. When you graduate from nursing school, you get a Pinning ceremony. This is separate and apart from the more familiar graduation event, that comes with cap and gown, in a huge auditorium, shared with students you may not know. For […]
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