I recently came across the Florence Nightingale pledge, the one I took 35 years ago when I graduated from a hospital-based diploma nursing program. When reading it on the eve of the year 2010, it occurs to me that it needs to be updated to better reflect where nursing practice is today.  Here’s the original composed by Lystra [...]

We in the nursing profession spend a lot of time reading clinical journals and books. But an equal amount of time needs to be devoted to personal and spiritual growth and development for balance and harmony. So here are my top ten must reads for nurses (and others, too). Each has been transformational for me in some way and [...]