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Paula M
Registered Nurse Storyteller, Healer, Scribe, Transformational Leader
First I am thrilled to announce my nephew has confirmed his new status of Registered Nurse. The path to achieving this status is life-altering, challenging, and you gain such a sense of accomplishment. The rigor of academic, clinical, and life skills is highlighted in transitioning from ordinary citizen to a […]
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Now 2020 has been much maligned for its impact on the world due to pandemic conditions, lock downs, and work from home the good and bad. Virtual school was one option, as parents acknowledged teachers are to be commended for sustaining a young person’s interest in learning, teaching math, science, […]
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December has finally arrived, with the news that viable vaccines can be delivered to frontline workers in health care and vulnerable elders in long term care. COVID-19 really doesn’t care as it moves from one case to another; here in central Canada our hospital system is at capacity, and in […]
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In this decade, indeed a couple of years; say 2022, the global shortage of nurses will be an issue–even more likely post pandemic as nurses may decide risking one’s life every shift is not their destiny. We know a number of transformations have occurred in this calendar year, who knew […]
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Artificial intelligence is likely one of your work tools and in your home already, the future it’s already here. As a nurse I recognized our role is to be leaders in practice and AI requires that nurses connect the space between AI and the patient. It’s great to see new […]
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Fall is now upon us, as the trees change colour in the varying regions, so too has the number of positive cases in the pandemic marathon. 10 months ago the ripples were smaller but the warnings were growing. By March we went into a lockdown and we monitored news channels […]
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4 years ago I drafted an entry as my nephew started on his path to graduate as a Registered Nurse, as of now he’s a few weeks away. COVID-19 delayed his finish and sadly we had no convocation to attend. In recognition of the many nursing students who are on […]
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This is our year, mind you we’re a bit busy with a pandemic and the reality is a treadmill of working full out, sheltering in place, social distancing and #TogetherWeCanDoIt. As many figure out how to protect their families, a number of nurses have to choose whether to attend to […]
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If you are feeling uncertain, guilty, scared, angry, fatigued, etc. If you are frustrated policies and protocols keep changing, PPE is a precarious resource, the leadership team is vague on length of this process, and you have obligations to your family. Considerations to your own children, obtain groceries, and friends, […]
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Well here in southern Ontario, all of Canada, USA, UK, majority of Europe and extending to Africa, South America and beyond the Covid-19 virus has impacted millions of citizens, financial losses are mounting up, and uncertainty is the new normal about the coming weeks etc. Why so bleak? Well this […]
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