Have you ever made a mistake, and just wished that the ground would swallow you up. It can be devastating. I felt like an imposter anyway, and this just confirms it - I definitely should not be qualified to do this job! We will all make mistakes at some point...
In this special edition of Spotlight, we take a dive into topics that we hope will be helpful for our newly qualified readers. But if you are not newly qualified, after enjoying the articles yourself, why not consider blessing a newly qualified nurse or midwife that you know with a...
My patient died today. She was so desperate for healing and had been crying out to God from her bed when she became too weak to stand. We had prayed together and acknowledged God's ways were so often beyond our human understanding. And now he had taken her. As I was...
The slow whirring of the automatic airlock door mixed with the officer's jangling key chains as we stood staring at the security camera in the small three-by-six-foot chamber. Thirty seconds later, we stepped into the key collection room. The nurse punched in her code and received the clanging set of...
A quick sigh escaped my lips as I shuffled through the sea of paper on the desk to find the new admission's notes. He had only been in the side room for five minutes, but already his notes were deep under a pile of documents, dressing packs and pharmacy bags. I...
It's that time of year again when we start to get excited about the next cohort of nurses and midwives joining our student ranks. But how do you connect? How do you let them know you're there and want to get to know them? How do you welcome them to...
Who would have thought when the World Health Organisation designated 2020 as the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife that it would prove to be so poignant? This year has increasingly seen nurses and midwives, and indeed all health professions, in the public eye. We have been portrayed...