Blog

View the collection of blog posts from over the years.

2019

• December
  • Nurturing calm
  • What’s okay & what’s not okay
• November 
  • The happiness of pursuit
  • Working for money
  • Leadership isn’t a title
• October
  • Speak up, but don’t offend anyone 
  • Feel more, think less 
  • Me too
  • Grateful for enough
  • Make them count
  • Learn by not doing it right
• September
  • Health = Luck + privilege
  • Do what others won’t
  • Ignore the noise
  • Nobody is coming
  • Got power? Give it away.
• August
  • Choices that matter
  • What do you think?
  • Try it on
  • Slow & steady wins
  • FOMO
  • The ‘difficult’ client
• July
  • Why memorize what can be looked up?
  • Assessing & diagnosing
  • What are we waiting for?
  • The river metaphor
  • What control over my schedule means to me
  • Better with practice
  • Find your heroes
• June
  • Just write
  • You’re the boss
  • Peel the layers
  • It’s only milk
  • Work-life fit
  • Vulnerability is the way
  • The launch of Nursing Now Canada
  • On continuing education
• May
  • Begin before you’re ready
  • This is Nursing
  • When reassurance is pointless
  • Coming alive
  • The difference between urgent & important
  • Accepting incompetence
  • Your work matters
  • Staying out of judgment
  • If there were no lectures
• April
  • “I forgot”
  • Where are you going?
  • The perfect job
  • Do for, or do with
  • A measure of success
  • Embracing paradoxes
  • “It’s against our policy”
  • A procrastination hack
  • Quiet, please
• March
  • What’s nursing school for?
  • Continuing education: Book list 2019
  • Upstream or downstream, that is the question
  • “It’s not my ideal job”
  • Intentions 
  • Breaking the rules
  • Awful vs interesting
  • The cost of crises
  • Are you going down the wrong path?
• February
  • “This is what we do”
  • This is health sick care
  • Do you have the authority?
  • Embracing the suck
  • Where are your goals & aspirations?
  • Outside the lines
  • The retirement fallacy
• January
  • “Finding yourself”
  • AI will see you next
  • Are you a cog in the machine?
  • If at first you succeed
  • Your critics don’t matter
  • Check-in
  • Important problems

2018

• December
  • What’s your story?
  • A year later
  • Quitting
  • Prescribing & administering bandages
• November
  • On being replaced
  • The magic of patterns
  • The Gord Downie imperative
• October
  • Back to school
• September
  • Who benefits?
• August
  • Sincerely, fear
  • The bravest thing
• July
  • The stories we make up
  • The vulnerability of tears
  • Summer reading list 2018
• June
  • Choose wisely
  • “We’ve discovered we have a voice”
  • The information crisis that education can’t solve
  • Start with who
  • Being comfortable with discomfort
• May
  • Empathy
  • Your problems aren’t our problems
  • Hierarchy of our work
  • The founder of hand antiseptic was a killer
• April
• March
  • A nurse’s journey
  • Applying for work
  • Thriving as a nurse in today’s world
  • Great nursing is real marketing
  • Dealing with bullying
  • Health care: the long and the short
  • The shrinking appointment
  • Build a life you don’t need to escape from
  • Don’t wait for someone to pick you
  • The better way to make change
  • “Don’t come to the ER”
• February
  • Sick care
  • Nursing with power
  • The chance of a lifetime