Nurse Healers by Kate Loving Shenk

Dogs Teach Us To Be More Like Them

How can we become better people? By becoming more like all the dogs you ever had in this lifetime!!

Your Daily Prayer For Healing-04/13/2012.

The Writers Of Today Are Innovators

Day 11 of Prayer Prescription Virtual Book Tour and some thoughts on becoming a published author.

Your Daily Prayer For Healing-04/12/2012.

The New Nurses Prayer

I have been contemplating Unexamined Codependency in the nursing profession, today.

Fortunately the time has come to face this traditional nursing way of Being, and in facing it straight on, we disarm the monster that haunts the nursing psyche.

A nursing colleague of mine told me that the unit was so busy yesterday, that no one got to eat or drink. When the nurse said she wanted to take a break to drink some water, the response was: No one else is getting a break.

The martyr syndrome, the poor me I am suffering, I have more to do and I don't need any help because I can do it better than you syndrome-- is alive and well in the nursing arena where some of us still choose to play.

Except because of this all prevailing attitude, it isn't any fun, anymore.

So what is the solution? Map out the nursing psyche and call it what it is-- the wounded healer, the unrepentant codependent, the abused warrior whom even God has forsaken.

Turn it around? God has not forsaken me, I have forsaken myself.

Turn that around? I will take care of myself before taking care of anyone else. I say a prayer to do this.

The Nurses Prayer: O Great Creator, thank you for pointing me in the direction of my Soul calling: to love myself by nurturing myself before I attempt to nurture anyone else. Thank you for giving me the sense of humor to laugh at all the great ironies of life. Thank you for helping me to heal my life with a laugh and a Prayer.

Om Peace Amen

My Book!

My book now has a cover!! That is huge in the book world, and I am happy to have one. This week, I will get focused about editing the book itself. I will launch the book around my Solar Return, 3/1/2012.

Right now, I am sitting at the hospital in the Labor and Delivery Unit at 4 am. The alarms on the fetal monitoring system alarm occasionally. Watching fetal monitors on big screen TVs all night long is one way to make a living, and a loving, too.

Here is to Living and Loving.

Kate Loving Shenk

http://katelovingshenk.com (a work in progress!)

Silencing Nurses Will Backfire

The Amanda Trujillo RN case prompted me to resurrected my Nurse Healer Blog. Amanda was fired for giving information about a Liver Transplant consult to her patient. This does not bode well for the patients of the world, for nurses, the majority of whom are women, or for the Health Care System.

Nurses are bullied by doctors, nurse administrators, Big Pharma and the Health Insurance Companies, all because Corporations have taken over health care.

Is this what you thought would happen when you entered the nursing profession?

Ulysses Saved By The Singing Voice

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Ulysses Saved By The Singing Voice.

One of the remedies that worked to bring Ulysses back from a certain death in January, 2011– was singing directly to him. Aeva Wheet, one of my radio show guests, animal lover and healer, suggested that I do this.

The video shows the subtlety of his innate ability to bring the singing somewhere deep within himself. You can see it if you watch his aura or etheric being.

Ulysses The Dog deeply loves to be sung to. He seems to especially like it if his name is woven into the words of the song.

If you have a sick dog, sing to him or her. It helped me to believe I was doing something for him and that I still can help him everyday of the rest of his life.

Too Much Coffee?

Too Much Coffee?

I definitely drank too much coffee over the weekend when I worked 53 hours over a four day period at the hospital. And these hours were all done at night.

My main symptom of coffee overdose was: Heart Palpitations, and some fast heart rhythms. Darn. I just had to rest, and now I feel great, with no interest in coffee, at all!!

Namaste

Kate Loving Shenk

My Book

I have a book cover for my book, "Prayer Prescriptions: Spiritual Remedies For Long Lasting Health" thanks to Gypsy Owl, Deb Bryant! A book without a cover, does not have what an author needs to attract her readers!

I just came from the hospital and am half way through a 40 hour work stint, all night work, of course. Everyone should have the pleasure of working night shift! It creates flexibility of mind, body and spirit.

Onward to editing and facing down the inner critic!

Kate Loving Shenk

[Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]

We Need Compassion

 

It is hard to believe that it is November already. But it is.

October 28 marked the and of the Mayan Calendar. Certainly everything has changed and all of the systems, Corporations and banks are falling apart.

Just now I passed the occupy encampment in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania has a model occupy encampment  and nonviolence is the rule. I went to the mayor's office here in Lancaster today to let him know how much we appreciate his leadership as pertains to the Occupy movement here.

Our mayor loves Harley-Davidson's. We gave him a book about Harley-Davidson motorcycles as a token of our appreciation.

Compassionate leadership is what is needed in all arenas right now. We certainly could use it in the hospitals where we work. Medicine has been taken over by the corporations, who are not people, contrary to what our Supreme Court thinks. The Corporations which have taken over medicine are the health insurance companies and the pharmaceutical companies.

But we can do better. Last night on my radio show, Donna Smith,  documentary subject of Michael Moore's SiCKO, was my guest. We had a wonderful time. You can listen here.

We did discuss the sorry health care situation in this country. 100,000 people die every year here in America because they lack access to healthcare.

Over and out. Until next time.

Kate Loving Shenk

The iPhone 4S

The iPhone 4S is here and today was the day of its launch! Here where I live, the phones weren't sold out. But plenty of people were visiting the Apple Store and they were buying the iPhone 4S as well as a brisk iPad business ..

This picture was spontaneously taken outside my window, and place right here in this blog post, right on the iPhone, itself.

I am taking the phone to Wall Street to take live video. And after that, I will use the phone to promote my new book: "Prayers To Heal."

I need to think about exactly how I should be doing that.

But this weekend, I refuse to think about my book. It is already completed in the world of spirit. So I will allow it to have a life of its own!

My friend Joel is meeting me and we are going to see Thich Nhat Hahn together for a day of mindfulness. I know I am in for a change. I know not what it is, but that is the beauty and the healing of it all.

Peace.

Kate Loving Shenk