Nurse wisdom in difficult times…who better to ask for help than wise, compassionate, caring and brilliant Nurses and Nurse Coaches? When asked the question, “You have so much wisdom, experience, and love. What would you share with those who need help?”.
Nurses from across the globe chime in to offer words and intention to alleviate suffering and help us remember we have power to choose how we adjust and shift in our precious lives.
nursestalking is a YouTube channel where Nurses discuss so many things about Nursing, our profession, our work and more. Dale Barzey-Pond is the host, and she wants everyone to know that Nurses are far more than just people in scrub suits. Learn some of the reasons I love fellow Nurses in this blog.
A Nurse Coach is a registered nurse who has chosen to advance their nursing education with additional extensive certification, supervised practice and mentorship to learn the tools, concepts and theories to actively coach clients, patients and families towards their best health, while preventing and mitigating disease.
One could say that a nurse coach is in fact, a health and wellness, well-being, and integrative coach all wrapped up in one. But they are so much more!
This is the story of a Registered Nurse (me) who stood up for herself and her patients, and what happened in the process. Nurses are one of the most dedicated professionals on the earth. Nurses vow to protect their patients from harm. Here is Nightingale’s Pledge from 1935, and it (or an updated version) continues to be said at nurse graduation ceremonies around the world.
I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity and to practise my profession faithfully. I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug. I will do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession, and will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping, and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling. With loyalty will I endeavour to aid the physician in his work, and as a 'missioner of health' I will dedicate myself to devoted service to human welfare.
