Submitted by Christobal Mozingo Goodwin, OHNA Director-at-Large, who is a Board-Certified Holistic Nurse and Certified Diabetes Educator. He is a Master-prepared Registered Nurse with over 30 years of combined healthcare, wellness, and workplace safety experience. Sustainability is definitively a Holistic Nurse value. It is one that we know is important,…
Submitted by Sarah Johnston, BSN, CCRN Critical Care Float Pool Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center As healthcare professionals, we get a firsthand look at how fragile we are as human beings and at the same time just how resilient we can be. We can see how life is a continuous balance…
Submitted by Jeanne Thomsen, RN OHNA Secretary For me, well-being is that general feeling of contentment and peace when I find the balance between accomplishing the things that need to be done and giving time to the things that I want to do. Accomplishing those must-do-but-don’t-really-want-to tasks usually requires a…
submitted by Kathleen Bell, RN, MSN, CNM, MS1-BC, AHNBC In my roles as a certified Advanced Holistic Nurse, Meditation Specialist, and teaching faculty for AHNA’s Integrative Healing Arts Program (IHAP) I read a LOT. And it seems to me, in the new year 2020, that the “buzzword” within integrative health…
Submitted by Guest Blogger, Judith Tamarah, MIARC Not enough time to do a self-care practice is frequently looked at as the culprit behind a derailed self-care routine; but I believe the deeper cause is that we haven’t made the space. One of the greatest tools we have is our environment.…