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  • Devotional,  Faith,  God,  Spirituality

    16. A Season for Everything

    October 21, 2020 /

    There is an occasion for everything, and a time for every activity under heaven: a time to give birth and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to uproot; a time to kill and a time to heal; a time to tear down and a time to build; a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance; a time to throw stones and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace and a time to avoid embracing; a time to search and a time to count as lost; a time to keep and time to throw…

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  • Faith,  God,  God Made You For More,  Spirituality

    God Made You for More

    July 4, 2019 /

    Because I’m a sucker for a theme, I’ve decided to start a blog series entitled “God Made You For More.” Women have, time and again, given up so much of themselves for things other than God’s goodness and glory. The enemy has used a million little things to distract us from what we were made to be, and it is time we stand up and say “no more”. Don’t you want to be used by the God of the universe for His purposes? If that idea doesn’t excite you, you will definitely not like this series! All I want is to do the work that God has put before me,…

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  • God,  Nursing,  Registered Nurse,  Self Care,  Spirituality

    Dear Nursing (A Love Letter)

    May 22, 2019 /

    Dear Nursing, Why you gotta be like this? I kid. I love you. But you are hard and you make me crazy. I have tried in earnest to quit you because I thought that is what was best. I genuinely believe that God asked me to lay you down and walk away. I prayed and prayed that He would let me take you back because surely we are meant to be together. But sadly, thats not the case. Don’t get me wrong. I have a job. Two new jobs, in fact. In nursing! I’m going to be working shifts and learning new skills and walking with people through their health…

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  • Faith,  God,  Spirituality

    Why I Am A Christian

    April 29, 2019 /

    It occurred to me that maybe some of you don’t know why I am a Christian. Some of you may not even know all that much about Christianity or why I would choose to get up early on a Sunday and spend 2 hours sitting in a pew. So rather than just jumping in to more things I suck at I thought I would backup and talk about how I got here. As most of you know, my dad is an Anglican Priest so I basically grew up at the church. I was homeschooled until High School so almost all of my friends were from church, I would go to…

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  • Faith,  God,  Spirituality

    Things I Suck At: Dreaming

    April 26, 2019 /

    Now, this kind of feels disingenuous because let me tell you, as an enneagram 4 I have ZERO problems with dreaming. I can get very lost in dreams and ideas and creativity. So much so that to stop my brain from spinning I usually have to write out all my ideas and dreams into some kind of chart with specific strategies on how to accomplish them, lest I go insane. But when it comes to actually listening to dreams, being in tune with the Father and what He wants to accomplish through our dreams, I’m not very good. A lot of it comes from what I think is something we’ve…

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  • Books,  Faith,  God,  Nursing,  Spirituality

    Things I Suck At: Purpose

    April 22, 2019 /

    I mentioned in another post that I have been really focused on purpose lately. I’ve felt completely restless and like I was being called to something, with zero clue as to what that something could be. So I started seeking out Christian resources on purpose in an attempt to maybe once and for all figure myself out. I started off with Annie F. Down’s 100 Days to Brave which is, you guessed it, a 100 day devotional. It was great and I recommend it, but it didn’t quite go deep enough. It did have some really great insights like listening to ideas that pop into your head because those ideas…

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  • Faith,  God,  Spirituality

    Things I Suck At: A Journey

    April 15, 2019 /

    So this whole trying-to-figure-myself-and-my-God-out thing has been a long time coming. In fact, I think it started in the fall of 2017 when I started to have a pretty strong hunch that the baby I was growing was going to be of the female variety. I came to this conclusion after months of feeling the worst I have ever felt while pregnant. I was tired and nauseous all the time. I ate approximately 5 apples a day because it was all I wanted to eat and I couldn’t drink water because it was too “thin.” Milkshakes? They were fine. Life sustaining water? Hard pass. My two other pregnancies were good,…

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    I’m Quitting Nursing.

    April 7, 2019 /

    Lately I’ve been really focused on purpose. How does what we do here on earth work towards God’s kingdom? How am I going to spend these short days that I have here, pursuing God’s glory? In this search, I started reading the book Made for This by Jennie Allen. One of the things Allen talks about is laying everything before the Lord, and being willing to follow Him anywhere. I felt so confident that I had done this. Over and over again I offered prayers of thanksgiving and devotion where I would say “I will go wherever you lead me Lord, everything I have is yours” and then in the…

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  • Faith,  God,  Nursing,  Self Care,  Spirituality

    New Year, Same God

    January 9, 2019 /

    It is a brand new year, and you know what that means! We all have a renewed sense of self and are ready to take on new adventures, fully confident in who we are and what we have become! …..of course I’m kidding. Most likely, we have all decided that this will finally be our year. We are going to make real changes this time. It’s allllllll going to be different. Here is the thing about different. It’s not always good. Before you start listing all the ways in which you need to change to meet the new year, take a minute to list out the gifts and talents that…

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    Exchanging Busyness for Holiness

    September 24, 2018 /

    I’ve had a bad week. One of those weeks where you seem to be so bad at absolutely everything you do that you wonder why God called you to get out of bed in the mornings. Oh right, because I have three little humans that I have to keep alive. These days I am a lot more focused on mommy-hood than nursing as I’m on mat leave from my casual position. And yet I am so much more busy now than I was when I was working. Moving from 2 kids to 3 definitely plays a big role in it my busyness, but I have also taken on so many other…

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The Know-It-Nurse

Sarah-Jane is a Registered Nurse working as a nursing instructor at a local university.  When she’s not working she’s at home with her kids. She is a musician, is trying her best to learn french, and would love to tell you about Jesus, if you want to know Him.

She has the greatest husband, the cutest kids and the most fixer uppable house on the Canadian prairies.

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After taking a little mental break from the blog, After taking a little mental break from the blog, I’m back with another series! I hope you know that you were made for more than your current circumstances! Check out the link in my bio!
It’s Palliative Myth Monday! Today it’s all ab It’s Palliative Myth Monday! Today it’s all about the definition of Palliative Care. PC is not simply a hospital unit. It is a philosophy of care specifically created to promote comfort.

Palliation can happen across a bunch of different settings from hospital units, hospice’s, patients homes and even places like NICU. When the goal is comfort, not necessarily cure, that is where we palliative professionals start to shine.

Where have you used your Palliative knowledge?

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This one is for the students out there! I’m goin This one is for the students out there! I’m going to be a clinical instructor in the fall and can’t wait! To get us all ready I thought I would write a post on how best to prepare for clinical in a prayerful way! Link in bio. #studentnurse #studentnurselife #nursingstudent #nursingschool #nurse #nursing #christiannurses #christianstudents
It’s Palliative Myth Monday! While it’s no myt It’s Palliative Myth Monday! While it’s no myth that we frequently use opioids in Palliation, it IS a myth that this will inevitably lead to addiction.

Narcotics are used to control pain and shortness of breath, and are given in both short and long acting formulations. When used appropriately and under the guidance of your physician, these heavy duty meds are very safe.

It’s important to remember that dependence does not equal addiction. Your body may be dependent on the medication to maintain comfort levels, but this does not mean that you are addicted to the medication. If you started taking narcotics for the way they make you feel mentally or emotionally even if you aren’t having pain or shortness of breath, that would be a warning sign of addiction.

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New Blog Post with a heartfelt letter to Nursing! New Blog Post with a heartfelt letter to Nursing! Check it out at the link in my bio!
It’s Palliative Myth Monday! So here is a big mi It’s Palliative Myth Monday! So here is a big misconception: death is painful. Yes, most people suffering from a terminal illness, such as cancer, will experience pain at some point during end of life (which I would define as the final six months of life). However, Palliation has advanced so much over the past 60 years to include powerful medications that can control almost all pain. It can sometimes take some trial and error, but palliative professionals, working together with patients, can use these medical advancements to significantly reduce or remove pain.

Medications like hydromorphone, morphine, fentanyl, and methadone are all used here in Canada to control minor to complicated pain. And if all these were not enough, Palliative sedation is a viable option, albeit a discussion for another Monday!

Have you ever had a patient with complicated pain? How was it resolved?

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Sometimes when dealing with death and grief, thing Sometimes when dealing with death and grief, things can be heavy. I rely on my faith to get me through, but that doesn’t make it easy. Today I’m praying for all those out there walking through grief or fear or death. (Quote is from Crowder’s Come As You Are) #palliativecare #palliativecarenurse  #registerednurse #christiannurses #faith
It’s Palliative Myth Monday! Did you know that t It’s Palliative Myth Monday! Did you know that the vast majority of us will die in our sleep? Very rarely is death chaotic. Yes, there are traumatic deaths, but in my practice, I would say upwards of 95% of my patients have died peacefully in their sleep.

This isn’t something that is portrayed in the media. In TV shows and movies, death is usually very dramatic, with people gasping for breath or saying their final words. But if we do our jobs as palliative professionals, we can control things like breathlessness (dyspnea) with the proper medications.

One of the docs I work with likes to point out to patients that death is often believed to be like an explosion: big and noisy and eventful. In actuality, death is usually like a candle being blown out: peaceful and quiet. In fact, I’ve had family members not even notice that their loved ones have passed until I come in the room and tell them!

Death is scary because it is unknown, but hopefully the knowledge that most of us will go peacefully in our sleep will bring you or your patients or loved ones comfort.

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Spending this Mother’s Day digging into this gem Spending this Mother’s Day digging into this gem of book by @jessaconnolly and @hayley.e.morgan and trying to remember that I’m never too much. I hope you’re all having a great day! #mothersday
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