The Heart of Nursing

Whenever the child abuse cases, or “non-accidental traumas (NATs)” come into our unit, a very tender unsettledness, laced with anger, descends upon all the staff. We hate all kinds of suffering that our little patients endure, but the suffering that comes with intent and disregard from the hands of the very adults who are supposed to be nurturing and protecting them is partic...

I didn’t expect so much emotion to surface while preparing for this upcoming presentation. I keep weeping through my run-throughs because I can still barely believe this all happened, and it’s so hard to give words to the real things.

I’m revisiting our year of health crises (which, let’s be honest, continues to reverberate into today in so many ways), to refle...