Full title is Energized and Engaged: Side Effects of Using Your Strengths to Gain Health and Well Being. We have applied for CEs. The event is free. Chapter membership meeting will follow. Light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP so we have enough for all. Cash bar available. Link to RSVP: http://evite.me/6vcVkYeGEE HOST:AZNA Chapter 2/520-471-1044 THURSDAY, APRIL 11 FROM 5:30 […]
Author: Kim
Welcome! I am an RN, MSN with an emphasis on leadership and integrative nursing. This blog site can be an educational site or a place of respite. I have 25 years of nursing experience including 10 of those years in leadership positions. I am now proudly a clinical instructor at the University of Arizona College of Nursing. I have a faculty position in the RN-MSN Online Clinical Leadership Program. We emphasize integrative nursing education to leave a graduate with tools to create healing environments for patients, families, and communities as well as providing tools for each graduate to learn to care for themselves.
I am also a fellow in the Integrative Nurse Faculty Fellowship.
Health care is a brutal business in many parts of this country. In these many corporate structures, it is easy to lose sight of our patients and most definitely, ourselves.
Learn About Science Communication
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USNIHNCCIH/bulletins/2385cbc The link above will take you to a lecture and Q & A we should all listen to (you may have to copy and paste). The lecture, by Dr. Alan Leshner, was shared with the National Institute of Complementary and Integrative Health (NICIH) scientists. Nurses are scientists, we should not and cannot deny that […]
Bliss
Introducing Gertie, my dog. Gertie’s bliss is her head out of the car window and a breeze through her hair! What is your bliss? Bliss, defined as perfect happiness , great joy (dictionary.com) can be an elusive feeling for most nurses. We are too busy creating comfort and safety to others. My bliss is the […]
What did you do?
It’s 3:23 in the morning and I’m awake because my great great grandchildren won’t let me sleep my great great grandchildren ask me in dreams what did you do while the planet was plundered? what did you do when the earth was unraveling? surely you did something when the seasons started failing? as the mammals, […]
SPRING 2019 OPPORTUNITIES
We have a magic place just north of Tucson; Picacho Peak National Park. In the spring, when our winter rains are plentiful, a burst of California Poppies & many other wildflowers bloom all over the mountain sides. My husband, dog, and I went this last Sunday. The wait to get into the park was over […]
SPRING BREAK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA TUCSON, AZ.
Spring is in the air in Tucson, Arizona. The weather is beautiful and the wildflowers in the desert are blooming large from all the rain we had this winter. The washes around Tucson are filled with water from snow melt on Mt. Lemmon, a 10,000 foot high mountain, one hour drive to the top from […]
New Caring Science, Mindful Practice Website and Blog
New Caring Science, Mindful Practice Website and Blog Hi Everyone,Dr. Stizman is a Professor, Undergraduate Nursing Science, at East Carolina University (NC). She created a beautiful website caringsciencemindfulpractice.com with a CSMP (Caring Science Mindful Practice) Blog that I want to share with you. Dr. Sitzman created this because so many of her colleagues, students, and […]
Meditation Site Worth Your Time
Happy Monday! I don’t know about you but I find it difficult to make myself meditate; and I say “make myself’ because everyone has 10 minutes for themselves in a day. Sam Harris’ Waking Up app is a perfect way to start a meditation practice or reenter one. The link is https://wakingup.com/?_ga=2.155872956.600188066.1551142522-1769470926.1551142522 Sam Harris is […]
Tenderness
As I listen to the nourishing rains falling on the Tucson desert I wonder; what have you done to nourish yourself lately?
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!
Funny thing this Valentine’s Day, my husband of 29 years and I gave each other the SAME CARD!! It was weird and cool at the same time 🙂 To all my viewer valentines enjoy this day & look for the love all around you.
The Integrative Nurse 