The latest edition of the Best In Nurse Blogs-my bi-weekly focus on the best writing by, for, or about Nurses!
Best In Nurse Blogs:
by Cil Burke BSN
Only octogenarians would think I’m a spring chicken. I’ve been working for many years with almost all of my working life spent as a ‘corporate cog’. That’s who I am.
Dr Dean is the adventurous one, so I get to live capriciously through him and his ventures:
- Building this blog
- Owning rental property
- Running for public office
- Learning to sail
Yes, those are ventures-just a few of those we’ve enjoyed (well mostly….) Each require not only a great deal of time, but energy and devotion. Though great fun and filled with learning, it was not my passion that moved those projects forward.
All I had to do was tag along. I tag along very well.
Do you want to see “Fireworks”? Find your passion!
Then, slam! A venture slipped into my life and there is no turning back. At first I saw it only as something that piqued my interest with that little bit of hope that we all want but no longer believe in.
I have a few health issues, as does Dr. Dean, and we battle them with available meds and stay up to date on advances in treatments and try to live healthy. But we had come to accept our fate. We were growing older with diminishing physical resources, and daily aches and pains.
Whoa! Not so fast. Like ‘Days of Our Lives’, we’re turning back the hands of time.
As I walk along this ‘new venture road’, I’ve begun to wonder “why is this different?”
I still help with the blog, I still work at my day job as a public health nurse. Why am I embracing this new venture?
Why is this different-why am I grabbing onto “something else to do” when I could be maintaining the status quo?”
Passion. My new venture takes all my strong feelings on wellness, nutrition, exercise, family and friends and embraces them. It’s who I am. It’s like I’ve been born again I feel so alive!
Do you have a “passion” hidden inside? Find it, your life will be so much fuller.
If you’d like to know more about my new venture/passion, email me: cil at the millionairenurse.com.
Passion loves to share.
Let’s get started on
The Best In Nurse Blogs!
Lorry presents a podcast with two well qualified guest nurses joining her to discuss Correctional Healthcare News Roundup at Correction Nurse.
Toronto Emerg gives us the down and dirty on a course of nortriptyline to treat pain related to a fall which aggravated an old injury from a previous fall in Those Nortriptyline Blehs at Those Emergency Blues. Oh, the side effects of pain relievers. We’re glad she recovered and is back at writing.
NP Business Owner Blog- Barbara gives us 5 Reasons You NEED to Learn the Business of Healthcare.
Amazon.com Will Pay for You to Go to Nursing School is an interesting post by Brittney over at The Nerdy Nurse. You have to be an employee, but still, that’s pretty good stuff.
Celebs Have Them Too. The Infusion Nurse Blog knows what a PICC line arm band looks like and shares she’s seen them on lots of folks, even celebs.
Kevin of Innovative Nurse makes the case for more of us nurses becoming NPs at The Nurse is In.
Overtime or Overworked? is Nurse Kitty’s subject at Real New Nurse. She sounds like one tired nurse at the end of 6 straight shifts. That’s a tough stretch-probably most of us have done the same and know where she’s coming from.
Nurse Teeny has a guest post about the ‘T’ of LGBT community-who begins by explaining the confusion of ‘community’ in this context. Interesting post: The Holistic Nurse: Gender Transitions. at The Making of a Nurse
Sympathy Pains at Nursetopia. Well said.
Wow. Some very touching stories at Gina’s site: Code Blog, Asking for Stuff. We are so fortunate in this country.
Nurse K is dealing with schizophrenia at Crass-Pollination in Mid-Century Modern Delusions. Hers is a deep subject: how fixed is a fixed delusion, anyway? The life of an ED nurse.
The tragedy in Aurora, Colorado is the background of Nurse Keith’s post Of Tragedy, Heroism and Recovery at Digital Doorway. He offers suggestions for healthcare workers who treat the victims of such horrors. These mass tragedies call for more from the human spirit and then more attention needs to be given for recovery.
Some Shocking Facts About Nursing Around the World is the subject at ER Nurses Care
Impacted Nurse wants to push us to do more to learn more to share more at Nurseversity. I love the idea. Check it out at Nurseversity: Building at supportive Learning Community.
My Weekend in Portland: What if You Can’t Drink the Water? JParadisRN’s Blog described what it was like: no big deal for those with resources, a very big deal for the less fortunate.
THANK YOU!
Thanks for reading! And please share by sending this link to your nursing friends. Remember if you have a passion, I interview nurses and highlight their unique stories here twice a month. Don’t be shy…
Hope you find your passion!
Cil
Recent Carnivals we’ve been accepted into:
Yakezie Carnival at Financial News Blog 2012
A Gardening Carnival at Successful Gardening
Carnival of Retirement at The Frugal Toad
Carnival of Road to Financial Independence at One Family’s Blog
Christian Family Online Information Exchange at Olin’s Blog
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Thanks for sharing this information on your blog. It’s wonderful to see that you are doing your best to help those in the nursing field find wealth. Keep up the great work.
Congrats on your new venture! Sounds really exciting. I can’t believe Dr. Dean ran for public office. That must have been one fun-loving campaign!
[...] nurse who does. His wife, Cil Burke is a nurse, and writes posts for the blog too. She curated the Best in Nurse Blogs: Passion and Business Edition two weeks ago, graciously including my post, My Weekend in Portland: What If You Can’t Drink [...]