Moral distress is the psychological experience of knowing what the right thing to do is, but being unable to act (CMA, 2020, pg. 1). It is a common experience in healthcare, as patients lives and health outcomes are shaped by complex systems that are largely incomprehensible without insider knowledge. Nurses are in a unique positionContinue reading “How will climate change cause moral distress?”
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Why Nurses Should Care About Climate Change
“Unprecedented, irreversible, crisis.” These are the words that headlines are relying on to communicate the risk that climate change is posing to humanity. Even so, it can be difficult to fathom how it will affect our everyday lives and society as a whole. How will climate change affect health care and why should nurses specificallyContinue reading “Why Nurses Should Care About Climate Change”
Why are young people so anxious?
Something struck me recently while reading the news. Somewhere under a headline about why we should not have children because of climate change and another one about how being a plant lover is destroying the environment, was yet another article concerning itself with the youth mental health crisis. Why is Gen Z so anxious andContinue reading “Why are young people so anxious?”
These boots were made for walkin’
For the final dark month of winter, I decided that my challenge should be something to keep my spirits up and get me out of my yearly funk. Enter, walking. It’s cheap, it’s easy, and if you’re lucky enough to have two functioning legs you probably do it all the time anyway. I knew thatContinue reading “These boots were made for walkin’”
Why I Journal and You Should Too
When I was a kid, I loved reading fictionalized journals and diaries and always wanted to be a little girl who journaled her days away. But I think I always liked the idea of being a journaler more than the act, I just didn’t have that much to write about. Now that I’m an adultContinue reading “Why I Journal and You Should Too”
The Avery Spectacle 