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Your Nursing Career Mitochondria

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

A nursing career needs a great deal of feeding and watering; there are so many moving parts, and there's a lot to do in order to keep them all happy and flourishing. If your original motivations for entering the profession no longer hold true for you in the present, some soul searching may reveal where you need to look next for inspiration.

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Nurses, Nursing, and the Nature of Suffering

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

I believe that this expression refers to the notion that our emotional attachment to the things that make up our lives (relationships, money, success, possessions, family) are what cause us suffering, and the ability to live in the present without grasping for what we don't already have can help to alleviate that suffering.

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The Conscious Creation of Your Nursing Career

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

What aspects of work feed my emotional and spiritual lives? From 2012 until its sunset in 2017, Keith co-hosted RNFMRadio, a groundbreaking nursing podcast. Some questions to explore include: What is it that makes me truly happy? What kind of people do I like to work with? Is doing hands-on care something that matters to me?

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

And so the definition of advance care planning really switched in, I think, 2017, 2018, there was kind of a United States definition and then an international consensus definition. Or the cases where someone actually said, “I never want a feeding tube.” Why did they choose to be DNR or not have a feeding tube?

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

I am constantly talking to clinical social workers about what are the ways that you can be contributing to research, to publications, to scholarship, to presentations, even if it’s a reflection paper? And you feed the medicine in. Now … I think it was 2017 that we began that. What matters to you in this world?

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. And so the key there is, of course these were prospectively measured where patients were called every month from 1998 through actually the present day among those who are still alive. It was amazing. It was really, really crazy.