Inspiration

What’s Something You’re Grateful For That Only A Nurse Could Understand?

Practicing gratitude can be a game-changer: it has far reaching effects, from improving our mental health to boosting our relationships with others. When you start to notice and identify the...

This Nurse Uses a Fake Hand to Comfort COVID-19 Patients and We’re Feeling It

Brazil has become the new epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis. President Jair Bolsonaro has been criticized for not...

Did You See It? –99 Year Old Nurse Returned to Normandy to Mark D-Day

75 years ago, she served as a nurse in a field hospital in Normandy just after the D-day...

Did You See It? –NICU Nurse Meets Baby She Helped Save 28 Years Later

There are some patients you never forget. Such is the case for a California nurse who never forgot...

Lead Or Follow: What Sets Leaders Apart?

Leaders are more willing to take responsibility for making decisions that affect the welfare of others. A new...

Nurse Sends Email and Saves Life of HGTV Host

  Let's set the scene. After putting in more 12-hour shifts than you can count, you finally have a day off. You settle in to...

The Top 25 Inspirational Things About Nursing

For a nurse, inspiration is as important as breathing—we need oxygen for our souls. Just as we check to see if our patients are...

Be Inspired By “The Call of Nursing: Stories From The Front Lines of Health Care”

Every so often, we stumble across a book on nursing that we can’t wait to share with our readers. Our newest pick?   William B. Patrick’s The...

TED Talks: Talks on Remembering Those We’ve Lost

The pain of personal loss, war and conflict is universal. These speakers share large and small ways to remember those lost even long after...

Did you read it? – “My wife is a nurse. My wife is a hero.”

A husband's Facebook post about his hardworking nurse wife has gone viral. The post and accompanying photo are both loving and profound, illustrating the...

Perspectives: “Magic Yarn Project”

Once a cancer nurse, always a cancer nurse. A perfect example is mom and former cancer nurse Holly Christensen who creates special "princess" wigs for...