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Nurses, Nursing, and the Nature of Suffering

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

From dialysis and med-surg to home health and the ICU, nurses create therapeutic relationships with patients and their families, providing spiritual and emotional comfort, compassion, and expert skilled care based on many decades of nursing science and evidence-based interventions.

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Career Spotlight: Fighting for justice for older people and those with dementia for 50+ years

The Nurse Break

I saw an advertisement in a magazine with a peg on a woman’s nose, took it to him and said he had started a new trend. With observation, compassionate and skilled care after a couple of interactions she calmed and we witnessed no ‘aggression’. We had a great relationship and laughed a lot despite his plight.