Happy Summer! Welcome back to Sip of Soup, my monthly eSip offering a taste of insight and lessons to help you keep caring while living a more balanced life.

 

Positively Yours,

Through laughter and tears, nurses shared their stories to inspire and fortify one another, so together they can continue their competent, compassionate service.

 

They told true stories from pediatrics (we learn so much from kids), to geriatrics (yes you can have snowball fights in nursing homes!) From caring for newborn babies, to troubled teens, to end of life for the elderly, these stories reveal nurses' tender ministrations throughout the cycles of life. Nurses will laugh themselves silly, then wipe tears of pride as they read about the breadth of what they do, healing bodies, minds, and spirits of patients.

Regardless of age or area of practice, nurses will find their own hearts and souls in these pages. They'll discover the universality of caring, the power of their skillful hands, bright minds, and devoted hearts.  

 

Every nurse should have a well-worn copy in his or her locker, backpack, nurse's station, bathroom or break room (some days that's the same thing!) They'll read stories is solitude or together as a team and will be reminded why they entered this profession...and why they stay.  

 

These stories will bless them with the hope, health and healing they bring to all those they touch. Because they deserve it.