Joy in our Practice

You can’t skip chapters, that’s not how life works. You have to read every line, and meet every character.  You won’t enjoy all of it… Some chapters might make you cry for weeks.  You will read things you don’t want to read, and moments when you don’t want the pages to end.  But you have to keep going.  Stories keep the world revolving.  Live yours, every line.

Anonymous

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Dickenson

I am looking forward to spending the day listening to narratives from your practice and hearing about joy in nursing leadership practice. My soul is ajar!

Carolyn

Watson believes that caring is a moral commitment to humanity that can spiritually benefit the nurse as well as the welfare of others (Watson, 1988). Both Watson and Nightingale believe in a “calling” that brings people to the profession of nursing. This sense of calling is rooted in love and reverence for all human beings (Watson, 1988).

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”

Henry Drummond

How wonderful that our practice gives us so much opportunity to “really live” as Drummond describes!