Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. -Martin Luther King Jr. I’m in love with my job. As I sit at my desk this beautiful summer morning in the Midwest, I am smiling, and [...]
The American Nurses Association (ANA) declared this year, 2017, the Year of the Healthy Nurse and defines a healthy nurse as "someone who actively focuses on creating and maintaining a balance and synergy of physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, personal and professional well being." If you read our July/Aug. HMA Today, you would know how [...]
"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." [...]
ANA is declaring 2017 to be the Year of the Healthy Nurse and every month they are targeting specific wellness issues that all of us can address both personally and with other nurses we know. To learn more about this initiative and their monthly topics, tips, events and resources go to Nursing World 2017 Year [...]
ANA's Committee on Nursing Practice Standards seeks public comment on its "Draft Recognition of a Nursing Specialty, Approval of a Specialty Nursing Scope of Practice Statement, Acknowledgment of Specialty Nursing Standards of Practice, and Affirmation of Focused Practice Competencies." This 2017 document will replace and reflects significant revision of ANA's 2010 "Recognition of a Nursing [...]
Above the doorway, leaving my church, you see these works Ite Inflammate Omnia. They are the Latin words used by St. Ignatius Loyola at the end of his letters to those Jesuits going off to do mission work. The very loose English translation can be rendered as “go, set the world on fire”. Many of [...]
With only a few days left in the public comment period, ANA and a coalition of nursing and veterans service organizations continue to highlight the need for approval of a Veterans Administration (VA) proposed rule that would empower Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) and improve the VA's capacity to provide timely, high quality care to [...]
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice.” –T.S. Eliot The HMA Board of Directors wants to send their greetings to each of you and wishes for a healthy, happy and hope filled New Year. 2015 was an outstanding year for the Health Ministries Association with many [...]
