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Need a pick me up? Want to learn more about ways to integrate humor into nursing practice? Check out the Journal of Nursing Jocularity, a free, online magazine for nurses. Various nurse authors, light-hearted articles, comics, and stand-up comedy healthcare-related... Read More

A colleague I admire called me yesterday to talk business, but she ended the call wonderfully by encouraging me. It lasted all of 45 seconds, but it meant a lot to me, and I told her so. I wasn’t having... Read More

In light of the recent worldwide news of Osama bin Laden’s death, I have spent much of today thinking and remembering. I have friends who were forever impacted by the USS Cole attack, and as with many, the events of... Read More

I am sitting at the Boston Logan International Airport waiting to return home to Austin. I am posting from my iPhone, so please forgive my lack of links throughout the post. I have spent the last three days at the... Read More

This is part 13 of the Nursing Research Challenge. The Article: Hein, L. (2010). Where did you sleep last night? Homeless male adolescents: Gay, bisexual, transgender and heterosexual compared. Southern Online Nursing Journal of Research, 10(1). Accessed at http://snrs.org/publications/SOJNR_articles2/Vol10Num01Art09.pdf. The... Read More

I cannot keep vaccines straight in my mind. It’s easy for them to run together in my ol’ gray matter, especially vaccination schedules. Thankfully, there’s Vaccines.gov, which covers anything and everything related to vaccines. It is a great site for... Read More

The plane wing sliced through the clouds like a warm knife through butter. Squealing tires on the tarmac soon lead to a quick trip on public transportation. As I walked a few blocks from the bus stop to the hotel,... Read More

Last week I mentioned some of my favorite places to find free, full-text nursing journal articles. Special thanks to my friend and brilliant colleague, Susan Thrane, for pointing out that open access nursing journals are also great sources, and nurse... Read More

It’s here. It’s finally here. The Oncology Nursing Society Annual Congress is this week in Boston. I am looking forward to so many things, and I hope to meet many colleagues in real life at Congress. I am super excited... Read More

I just returned from the most lavish birthday party I have ever attended in my life. I actually wasn’t the invited guest. My son was. It was a party for six-year olds. Two hours looking at a $1 million plus... Read More