The spirituality of nursing practice

/ Carey S. Clark, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, RYT, FAAN / 1 Comment

Why aren’t hospitals and places of healthcare more like churches?

One of the required readings I have assigned to my nursing students in the past was Matthew Fox’s (year)  “Recreation of Work”, where Fox examines the issue of how to create a working environment where one’s spiritual essence is honored. I think this book exemplifies is a lot of what we are talking about when look to move our sacred profession away from the domination of medicine and toward anNurse with Miracle sign autonomous practice of caring, supporting, and loving our patients as they take their healing journeys.

How is it that we find ourselves over-worked, tired, and unable to create change in our practices? I have explored our professional issues in depth in my two nursing shortage articles, but I still wonder how we end up nearly each and every one of us personally giving away our healing power as we succumb to the dominant model of allopathic care and cure. Many of us became nurses because Continue reading →

Creating Change and Practicing Self Care

/ Carey S. Clark, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, RYT, FAAN / 6 Comments

Chaos abounds; And I sit, becoming a new person.

Moment to moment.

Breathing in and expanding; Breathing out and contracting.

Accepting change, for I am not in charge.

I let go of it all, and rightly place it in God’s hands.

I came to the Nurse Manifest project in 2001 as I was in my doctoral program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, studying group process and transformative learning and change. I related the transdisciplinary concepts I was learning about to the issues we have in the profession of nursing, and I wrote an article about the nursing shortage Continue reading →

National Nurse

/ Jane K. Dickinson / Leave a comment

Here is some interesting information about The National Nurse Act, submitted by Susan Sullivan:

After review of your Manifesto, it strikes me that you and many of your colleagues may interested in knowing more about HR1119, a legislative effort being led by a small grassroots group of nurses.  Please see the attached Press Release from Rep. Anthony Weiner’s office regarding HR1119 The National Nurse Act of 2011. This legislation is promoted by the National Nursing Network Organization and hundreds of nurses across all specialty practice areas. Our NNNO President is an RN, PHN and certified Nurse Educator who has taught nursing for nearly 30  years at an Oregon community college, and many of our Board members are current or retired nursing faculty.  Please feel free to share this email with your NursingManifest colleagues.
HR1119 is a fairly simple piece of legislation. It seeks to have the existing CNO of the USPHS elevated to a more prominent, Continue reading →

Welcome, nurses!

/ Jane K. Dickinson / 2 Comments

Hello readers/bloggers!

I wanted to say hi and introduce myself. I’m a nurse and diabetes educator. I wrote a post on our old blog about feeling disconnected from nursing at times. A specialty like diabetes education can do that to you, because it’s a multi-disciplinary specialty (dietitians, social workers, pharmacists, exercise physiologists, PTs, MDs can all be diabetes educators). I am in full support of a multi-disciplinary approach, especially when it comes to diabetes education and management. However, it makes me feel isolated from my nurse colleagues. Not to mention that I’ve been a department of one for the last twelve years! My hope is that this blog will be an opportunity to stay connected to nurses. We can share our thoughts, passions, ideas and more.

Thanks for joining us!

Why this blog?

/ Peggy L Chinn / 1 Comment

Ever had some of you own ideas about how things could be better in nursing and health care?  Has the “Nursing Manifesto” grabbed your attention, and then you had nobody with whom to share your ideas and thoughts?  Want to put out some

Nurse Proof Fence by Richard Cowling

"Nurse Proof Fence" by Richard Cowling

ideas for changes in the “manifesto” itself?  These are just a few of the reasons we decided to start this blog … to give all of us a place where we can share these thoughts and ideas, no matter how random or how far out!

The next step is to start using it!  Anyone who has an interest in the kinds of ideas that we published in our web site “Manifesto” is invited to become a author/contributor to this blog; if you want to be an author, just email Peggy or Jane and we will get you set up.  You don’t need to contact us if you want to comment on a post … just add you comment!  There is no limit — you can write to your heart’s content!