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Taking care of ourselves in the enormity of our work as midwives
It would be rose-tinted to pretend working as a midwife is an easy job… that is the ‘enormity’ bit and it is all too common to find ourselves overwhelmed, in levels of shock and/or exhausted at the end of a shift. What happens next is key to how we feel ongoingly. Do we focus...
Human Diamonds
How one nurse who works in aged care learns more everyday about the value of each resident and colleague and also their own value as a nurse, shining a different angle of the one ‘human diamond’.
Self care – you must be kidding!
If anyone had said to me twelve years ago, that self-care was essential for nurses to look after themselves and to equally manage their work day more effectively I would have probably thought that it was a joke. Back then, I was working as a clinical manager in a 75 bed Aged...