Coloring Outside the Lines 

Coloring Outside the Lines 

By Brenda Sutliff, MSN, RN  Fred has been developmentally disabled since birth. He was non-verbal and came to our hospital with a bowel obstruction due to Pica. He lived in a long-term nursing home known to have a less-than-desirable reputation, but it was one of...
The Fear of Touch

The Fear of Touch

By Takara Just, BSN, RN   I was a nurse who lost the importance of touch.   You see, as a nurse, as a case manager, you touch the lives of so many around you, for good or for ill, in so many variations of the word, that over time, the word loses its meaning....
Cooking as Self-Care

Cooking as Self-Care

By Ruth D. Grenoble, AM, LCSW, CCM Years ago, as a graduate school student pursuing a master's in social work at the University of Chicago, I took an advanced seminar in violence and trauma with an adjunct professor whose primary job was in the clinical realm. During...