Hello Friends, Well, I have already broken my New Year’s resolution to blog twice a week. (Let’s not even mention the one about working out every day. HA!) One resolution I did manage, was to make available a NEW video series for healthcare leaders everywhere. You can access the intro by clicking on the TV screen to the right >> See it? One of my motivations for making the series was my frustration when I am an attendee at a conference. Anyone in the audience will tell you, conference speakers are notoriously BORING!  There is a lot of room for improvement, right? So,...

  All Business Is Show Business is the name of a favorite old book of mine. As a performer (and card-carrying actor’s union member), the book struck me as funny, when thinking of it in terms of healthcare. Funny peculiar, that is. When it comes to healthcare advocacy, the adage doesn’t quite seem to fit. After all, healthcare advocacy is serious business, you say, right?  We aren’t out to just play politics. We represent life and death decisions, not just politically correct ones, right?  If it’s not about patient care, we don’t care, right? No arguments there. But...

  Healthcare leaders, are you FRUSTRATED with your life already, and we’re only in week #2 of the January? Here are 5 FREE tips you can take on your New Year’s journey, based on my own 30+ years as a nurse/educator and administrator in healthcare: If you’re not still  passionate about your work, find  out WHY? Are you immobilized by a coworker ? A boss? The culture of the organization? After you finish your analysis, make a PLAN. What will you do to change your situation? Is the irritation worth a transfer or a relocation? Even if you cannot change WHO you work with, you...

Happy January, all~ As we take down our holiday decorations and gear up for the next spin-around-the-globe, what are your biggest fears for the coming year? For some, it may be the lingering recession. Perhaps it’s the coming election? Or maybe you worry about the drought ? Well, thank heavens there is no drought in ideas, right?! New ideas are as bountiful as the universe, right? There is a stream of random ideas like a meteor shower right above your head, right? Wait. Did you say, “Wrong”? Uh-oh. Does your fear stem from a creative dry spell? Are you faced with the task of...

Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah out there in Blogland! One of my New Year’s Resolutions (or Goals or Intentions, however you like to call it), is to blog at least twice a week about Life as a nurse/presenter/humorist, with Helpful Tips and general info on these subjects. At my last presentation, an audience-member asked me how I could stand the stress of working with premature babies and their families.I told him it was definitely a “calling,” and that although the emotional toll is sometime a burden, the strain is far outweighed by knowing I have helped to ease the burden of...