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How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
Words of Wisdom From Homer Simpson
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Looking for inspiration, information on the use of humor in the clinical setting or just a good laugh? Check out these links:
5 Ways To Stay Upbeat in a Stressful Work Environment
GI Nursing: Does it Make Your Ears Wiggle?
Ha! 5 Ways Laughter Makes You Healthy
YOUTUBE VIDEO OF THE WEEK!
Have a link to share? Leave it in the comments, or mail it to Cindy@journalofnursingjocularity.com and we’ll share it with everyone!
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Leave a Comment (0) →We interrupt today’s regularly scheduled funny programming to bring you news about the Joplin, MO tornado. As you may have heard, a deadly tornado has hit Joplin, including a direct hit to St. John’s Regional Medical Center. Other facilities in the area, including a nursing home, were hit as well. The devastation is unbelievable.
Right now, the best source of information we can find on how to help respond to this emergency is here. We’ll be updating the site with more information as it becomes available. If you have any information on how nurses could help respond, please share it in the comments!
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Read JNJ Publisher Karyn Buxman‘s column Deja You: Dealing With Familiar Faces in Nursing
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May is here, and you know what that means! It’s National Nurses’ Week! Nurses’ Week is a time to celebrate everything that makes nursing as a profession distinctive and unique, to reflect and rejoice in the very real difference we make in the lives of our patients – and in the lives of the people we work with everyday.
Christine Belle said, “Our job as nurses is to cushion the sorrow and celebrate the joy, everyday, while we are just doing our jobs.” How true is that? Being a nurse puts us directly in the center of some of life’s most dramatic moments – the arrival of a child, the end of life, the discovery that there is no amount of mentos and diet Coke that you can ingest that will enable you to fly – and we’re there to do more than bear witness. We help ease pain, alleviate confusion, and provide valuable emotional support – on top of the everyday work of helping and healing. Amazing! (more…)
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