AJN Off the Charts

MARCH 28, 2024

Editor’s note: Hui-wen Sato is a pediatric ICU nurse in California and a regular writer for this blog who has gone deeply into the topic of grief, her own and that of patients and their families. Her insights reverse our usual ways of understanding grief, finding a generative energy instead of a wasteland.

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AJN Off the Charts

JUNE 6, 2023

Following his death, I spent much time going through the motions, sipping life through a straw from under the surface, as I fought against drowning in grief. In the struggle to find balance between life when he existed and life without him, I clung to the transformative experience of caring for my father.

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AJN Off the Charts

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The immense experiences of suffering, grief, loneliness, and burnout among nurses today call for a reexamination not only of our care delivery systems, but also of the personal frameworks through which we approach our nursing practice. What is spiritual care?

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