A Good Nights Sleep

There is nothing like a good nights sleep to renew your mind, body,telomeres,and change your perspective.This week really underscores that fact. I was running on empty..no gas in the sleep tank and now I feel like a million bucks. It is awesome! Try it this weekend.Listen to your body and sleep.For me, it was eight hours I'll never regret.

Take Care
~ Raqui

Alternative Nursing Career: Public Health Nursing

Good Morning Everyone!

I know it has been awhile but I'm steadily working on a new blog and new material behind the scenes. We are going to have a great summer together! Today I'm guest blogging on Tina Lanciault RN's differenttypesofnursing.com about my passion for Public Health Nursing.Check it out. All my public health nurses out there what characteristics have defined your public health experiences?

Take Care
~ Raqui

Happy Mothers Day!!!!!!!!!

Happy Mothers Day to my mom, mother in law, and all those who  have "mothered" along the way. It takes a special person to mother and we appreciate it!

Today is also special because its Florence Nightingales' Birthday !!!!How awesome. She is credited   with mothering modern nursing. 

Take Care
~ Raqui

A Nurses Legacy

Dear Community,

I leave you today for greener meadows, for a triumphant return to peace for my body is weary and my mind is filled with many memories. Some good, bad,... indifferent but nonetheless memories. 

Although I leave, be of good cheer as I am not gone, just absent in body. My spirit of care lives on...

You see that little girl running around enjoying her adoptive family...or the young mother breastfeeding her baby?  What about the nurse practitioner you saw today…that took the time to get to know you? She was in a class I taught about compassion.  

Aunt Jane understands that she takes the yellow pills twice a day and the green one at night because I took the extra time to make sure she had her medication right.

Maybe you met the nurse anesthetist that prepped you before surgery - I befriended her, telling her the sky was the limit despite her current circumstances and she dared to  believe it. 

The nurse day in and day out helping you in rehab? Well, he and I connected online through blogging and now the rehab app he created  keeps all your progress in one place, at the fingertips of you and your family.

Did you meet your child’s teacher?  I told her that being a teenage mother was just the beginning of her story. I inspired her to go to school and provide for her family.

So you see, I’m still here in my words, actions, deeds, and  planted seeds. My spirit of care lives on and now it’s up to you to carry the legacy of care on. 

Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to care for, inspire, and encourage you.  It was my pleasure and now I rest; knowing  the legacy I  leave serves as a catalyst to the next generation of caring.

Take Care

~Raqui