As I reflect on the last year I can see many ways in which my nursing background has helped shape the person I am today. Though I no longer practice nursing in any kind of traditional role, the knowledge and skills I gained regarding people and health, illness and dying, has helped me cope with not only the death of my husband and a new career, but has given me the hope and strength to carry on forward.
Nursing is far more than giving medications or treating wounds, it is a way of knowing, of viewing, and understanding the meaning of life as a flesh and blood human being. Nurses are a connection to the universal life and continuation of life that is part of every human story.
In this new year I hope you realize that as a nurse you have the capacity to help, and guide others, through a more spiritual understanding of each person's role and path, as they live, and die, and that you will always remember that your strength both as individuals and as a profession helps to bind and hold upright this fragile human race.
Wendy Getchell
Saturday, December 26, 2015
Friday, May 15, 2015
Ombudsman Report Calls On Health Regions To Improve Seniors System 'Under Strain' - Local News - DiscoverMooseJaw.com
Ombudsman Report Calls On Health Regions To Improve Seniors System 'Under Strain' - Local News - DiscoverMooseJaw.com
Care for the elderly has been a problem for years. It is still just talk. How sad our situation in Canada
Care for the elderly has been a problem for years. It is still just talk. How sad our situation in Canada
Margaret Warholm's Family Pleased with Ombudsman's Discoveries - Local News - DiscoverMooseJaw.com
Margaret Warholm's Family Pleased with Ombudsman's Discoveries - Local News - DiscoverMooseJaw.com
False hope offered to families with loved ones in nursing homes. Things do not change just because of reports. Change in health care is slow, even none existent because those with any kind of real power of no idea of the real problems. Not enough staff to provide basic and real human care. I hate these reports.
False hope offered to families with loved ones in nursing homes. Things do not change just because of reports. Change in health care is slow, even none existent because those with any kind of real power of no idea of the real problems. Not enough staff to provide basic and real human care. I hate these reports.
Monday, May 04, 2015
I recently added this link to my weight loss blog. I think as nurses you should also watch this.
Remedy or Rip Off
People rely on nurses for education and truth. There is great deal of truth in what is said (and exposed) in this episode from CBC's Market Place
Remedy or Rip Off
People rely on nurses for education and truth. There is great deal of truth in what is said (and exposed) in this episode from CBC's Market Place
Sunday, April 26, 2015
Can you open your mind to science and nature?
This is all true, natural and scientifically proven. Everything he says. It is NOT "alternative", it just doesn't come off a doctors prescription pad. Don't dump your doctor but don't give up the chance to live longer (and healthier) either. You give your doctor permission to release chemical warfare on your body; why not give yourself permission to give nature a try.
http://tinyurl.com/ovpd7es
My personal impression is that the general public, if they have not been brain washed by their doctors, are more willing to give "natural cures" a try than health care workers, including nurses. None of what is suggested on this video will hurt you but it certainly has the enormous potential to rid you of your cancer.
http://tinyurl.com/ovpd7es
My personal impression is that the general public, if they have not been brain washed by their doctors, are more willing to give "natural cures" a try than health care workers, including nurses. None of what is suggested on this video will hurt you but it certainly has the enormous potential to rid you of your cancer.
Rickets Review
I posted the video regarding rickets a little earlier today in case there are actually people out there who still have never heard of rickets. I am sad, and sickened, that after 30 + years since I became a Registered Nurse (I am now retired if you recall) this is still a problem being researched and making news headlines.
When I entered nursing in 1982 we were taught about this nutritional condition. At that time it seemed to be a problem from history and yet still current in countries where access to good food, any food, was an ongoing problem. In North American countries who are supposedly well off, with advanced medicine and health care, technology, and plenty of room to grow food, the ability to import fresh fruits you would think this should not be a current problem. How sad to hear that in 2015 many children suffer from rickets.
Neither Canada nor the United States are free from nutritional illnesses like rickets because there is still too much REAL poverty in our countries. For all our advances in health and technology will still can not seem to do the most simplest thing...caring and feeding our children and each other.
When I entered nursing in 1982 we were taught about this nutritional condition. At that time it seemed to be a problem from history and yet still current in countries where access to good food, any food, was an ongoing problem. In North American countries who are supposedly well off, with advanced medicine and health care, technology, and plenty of room to grow food, the ability to import fresh fruits you would think this should not be a current problem. How sad to hear that in 2015 many children suffer from rickets.
Neither Canada nor the United States are free from nutritional illnesses like rickets because there is still too much REAL poverty in our countries. For all our advances in health and technology will still can not seem to do the most simplest thing...caring and feeding our children and each other.
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Nursing in the Dark Ages
I used to think that nursing in the dark ages was more reference to how people practiced caring for people hundreds of years ago. With little to no understanding of what germs were or how their so called "good intentions" resulted in further illness, even death, of the people they were trying to help. It is now 2015 and to my horror I see the age of darkness in health care beginning to return.
It is not a case for whether those who practice in the profession of nursing truly care about what they are doing, but more a reflection of the system nurses practice under.
It has been 2 years since I last posted to my blog and sad to say I have seen little positive change. Nursing is not progressing forward, but digressing. It is time for moving forward and this will be the year.
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