CMSA Blog
Every Great Conversation Starts with a Great Listener
By Kelva Edmunds-Waller, DNP, RN, CCM A good conversation with someone who knows you can lighten your mood, lessen worries, and encourage and comfort you. Laughter from a good interaction is food...
Communication: Key to Resolving Gaps in Care Coordination
By Dr. Colleen Morley, DNP, RN, CCM, CMAC, CMCN, ACM-RN, FCM Many of you are familiar with my mother’s end-of-life story and the failures in communication that contributed to missed diagnosis...
Why Nurses Will Reimagine the Profession
By Kate Judge, Executive Director of the American Nurses Foundation It's easy to highlight the problems plaguing the nursing profession—we've seen many longstanding issues—come to the surface in...
Reflections on Memorial Day: Past and Present
By Janet Coulter, MSN, MS, RN, CCM, FCM Memorial Day has always been a special occasion for my family. What great memories! Each year, in my Ohio hometown, over 30,000 people attend and over 1,000...
Retired but Not Finished
By Joe Miller, RN, ACM-RN So, you’re retired — Now what? You don’t suddenly stop having an interest in healthcare or in helping others negotiate the complexities of today’s healthcare system, and...
Is There Room for Me?
By Rosie Pung, RN, MSN, BSN, CCM “Is there room for me?” is a question that can come to mind before beginning something new, for example joining a professional organization, attending a conference,...
Caring Transcends Distance, Space, and Time
By Kathy Driscoll, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, CCM Every year, I look forward to attending the CMSA Annual Conference. What a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with friends and colleagues, develop new...
It All Started with Sleeping in the Car
By Deborah Taschner, MSN, RN, CMGT-BC It all started with sleeping in the car. No, we weren’t homeless. We were in the middle of moving overseas. My brand-new military husband had failed (see “poor...
I Wonder What Florence Is Thinking
By Lisa Parker-Williams, DNP, MBA, RN, CCM "The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply." – Florence Nightingale Such a powerful statement was made well over one hundred years...
We Make a Difference
By Sonia Valdez, DNP, RN, ACNP, GANP, PHN, CVRN-BC, FAAN Nurses sometimes choose their careers based on a passion or because they believe that nursing is their mission in life. A career that is...