I spend a lot of my time meeting and talking with nurses who are in crisis mode.  The issues that bring nurses into my office often arise from lack of self care resulting in stress, anxiety, untreated depression and addiction.  The stories have similar themes: relationships with alcoholics or abusive individuals, stress in job situations, caretaking of co-workers and family, the pressure of being the sole provider and sleep deprivation. 

Almost without exception nurses and occupational therapists will work in the same settings sharing patient populations.  In this article an occupational therapy student shares insights with nursing students regarding the benefits of crafts in the treatment of patients with physical and cognitive disabilities.

While exit examinations can be valuable assessment tools for all types of nursing programs, they must be used prudently. Using them to evaluate students’ readiness for taking the NCLEX-RN and to design individualized remediation programs for those who need them is a win-win situation for both the students and nursing program.

Parish nursing is a unique, specialized practice of nursing that is a health promotion, disease prevention ministry based on the total health healing of a person – body, mind and spirit. The spiritual aspect is central to parish nursing.