Move Over Charlie Sheen: Nurses Have Always Been Rock Stars

By very definition, the nursing professional is an expert in the diagnosis of a human's response to their state of dis-ease.  While there are certainly measurable and clinically proven outcomes to determine and define your patient's response to their state of non-wellness, please be reminded that nursing is an art as well as a science.  A bit of a left brain meets right brain experience, all under one skull.  Seriously, how cool is that?


This is just another reason why nurses are Rock Stars.


In the current top-heavy and financially driven processing plant environment of a typical hospital patient care unit, we often do not have the time to utilize the artistic, creative psychic intuitive aspects of our unique profession.  This is a detriment to the healing of our patient population.  Nurses are taking back control over the healing of the patient!  Yes!! Think of the impact on your shift, on  the other staff, and in your Smiling Heart, just by taking a few seconds to connect energetically with the person in the bed with the wrist band.


I believe that where the artistic aspects of the Healer live also resides the intuitive and psychic abilities in all those who care for others with compassion.


Injecting a bit of your right brained, artistic and creative, sensing, feeling, Intuitive Self--in addition to the injection of narcotics - ultimately serves to heal this patient in a more whole fashion, and causes you to feel damned good about yourself, too. 


Your 42 year old post-op patient is vomiting, guarding her surgical site, writhing and crying.  Scientifically, you are aware that this indicates that your patient is responding to their pain.  Intuitively and empathically, (the very same qualities which energetically attracted you to becoming a healer in the first place), you have a knowing that the pain is in response to fear.  You take 5 minutes to sit down and educate her on the typical post operative process while administering her prescribed narcs.  This process alleviates a great deal of anxiety, decreases her pain level which creates an environment where learning can occur, and causes you both to feel connected beautifully with another human being.  More often than not, that 300 seconds of your time is more effective for the overall healing of this entire being, than would be to simply only administer narcotics, chuck the syringe in the Sharps and bolt out the door.


Mind, Body and Spirit Healing at it's simplest and finest.  Brought to you by The Nurse.


You do this 20 times a day.  Did you ever consider the process by which this occurs?  Probably not, because it is effortless, thoughtless and natural.


I am sure it is not rare that you "just knew" that one of your patients would become very ill during a particular shift.   The next time this occurs, mentally revisit this experience and ask yourself what part of your innate nursing dialogue "told you" this.  Was it a hardcore change in their physical appearance such as pallor, diaphoresis, confusion or the like?  Or, was "it" something else?


When considering your sense of knowing regarding someones pending "crash" as something non-clinical and unable to be "text book" defined,  think in retrospect about that which you felt and sensed, for it is in what is often not said versus what is stated, where the answers are.  This is what Psychic Work is.


A heightened experience of Knowing-- obtained and acknowledged as being True, by non-scientific and completely intuitive, immeasurable or invisible Truths.


Yes, You are Psychic.


The more we practice and embrace this side of nursing, this aspect of our healing personalities, the healthier we will become as clinicians, healers and humans.

Take care of yourself and your Higher Self.  Embrace your Inner Rockstar, and always remember to
Nurse Your Spirit.