No te des por Vencido
Author: David Wilkerson
Everyone experiences sadness and pain once in a while. Sometimes the problems are so big that we want to give up. David Wilkerson knows how to help us solve our feelings of hopelessness and despair about life. He examines despondency. He looks at the things that afflict us and offers resources to overcome the problems. Learn to let God heal and rebuild your faith and give you genuine peace.
New interesting textbook: The Caregiver or Yoga Journals Yoga Basics
Healing Presence: The Essence of Nursing
Author: JoEllen Goertz Koerner
An invitation for all nurses to re-engage with the passion and commitment that originally inspired them!
"...represents an act of passion for the profession, a window to a personal journey, and an invitation to view the nursing profession's contribution to healing in a Jungian context....The work's value comes from its integration of scientific, creative, and spiritual philosophies as a core context for the complex nurse-patient interaction involved in the promotion of a healing environment....Recommended."--Choice
Nursing is at a crossroads, facing shortages of unparalleled proportion at a time when society is experiencing health care challenges of great magnitude. At the center of professional nursing lies the authentic presence of the nurse, the intention and commitment that brings nurses to the profession in the first place. When there is congruence between who nurses are and what they do, nurses bring their souls to work. This balance is experienced as a healing presence that encourages the patient's self-healing capacity.
Throughout this book, JoEllen Koerner explores ways--scientific, creative, and spiritual--of understanding the power and impact of this "healing presence" on both the caregiver and those receiving care.
Wisdom from the field is presented in a series of reflections from multiple areas of practice. For all nurses and nursing students, the book offers practical application strategies for integrating the nursing process with the nurse's presence and a framework for personal and professional development.
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Reviewer:Vicki Ann Moss, DNSc, MS, BSN, RN(University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
Description:The author explores ways -- scientific, creative, and spiritual -- that the nurse can use to understand and implement the "healing presence" both for patients and for self. "It is a celebration of the human spirit that is manifest everywhere [nurses] practice," the author states.
Purpose:The purpose of this book is to place 21st century nursing into a paradigm "that transcends the economic, political, and technological culture of the day," and to invite nurses to remember why they were initially called to the profession.
Audience:Nurses and nursing student are the audience.
Features:The 10 chapters are grouped into four sections: Nursing: A Sacred Work; The Healing Field: The Context for Nursing Practice; A Healing Presence: The Power of One; and A Healing Path: Weaving a Purposeful Life. The book includes sayings and poems of some of the finest minds such as Mother Theresa, Einstein, and Carl Jung, as well as Eastern and Western philosophical thought.
Assessment:This book would appeal to any nurse who wants to learn and reflect on the spiritual aspect of nursing. It would be a good book to use as a stepping-stone to discussion about issues that are not black and white. I would suggest it be read slowly, perhaps one chapter at a time followed by reflection. It is not a book that could be skimmed or read quickly. It should make all nurses more aware of the meaning of their presence and the healing power of that presence to others. It is a much-needed book as technology continues toexpand and a patient's humanity often becomes of secondary importance to their cure.
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