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We ask ourselves this question in relation to the Careful Nursing professional practice model concept, clinical reasoning and decision-making, a key concept of the Professional Competence and Excellence (PCE) dimension.

For this blog we are back again with stillness.

Nurses' practice of stillness for at least 5 minutes during personal time every day is essential for the effective practice of Careful Nursing.

Without doubt, human kindness is an issue of unending concern in society at-large, in healthcare, and in the nursing profession in particular.

Nurses do not go on strike unless they have been pushed to the limit of their practice situations, and so it is currently for nurses in Ireland.

We are very happy to announce that from June 8 – 16, 2019, we are hosting this 8-day visit to Ireland, and look forward to welcoming our nursing colleagues from the United States and around the world.

'Now I see the true value of nurses' writes D. Eoin O'Brien, in a recent issue of The Sunday Times [Irish Edition] (2016, p.19).

Congratulations to the 2016 Careful Nursing Award recipients at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa, USA.

A fulcrum is defined as the point of support on which a lever turns in moving something up to a higher position (Fulcrum 2017). If we say that nursing diagnosis is the fulcrum of practice competence and excellence, we are saying that it has a very important effect in elevating the quality of our professional nursing practice.

We enjoy working with the Careful Nursing Philosophy and Professional Practice Model and have responsibility for implementing it at St. Vincent's University Hospital in Dublin, Ireland.

In an article titled 'The crisis in caring: An evidence-based response', Fergus O'Ferrall (2013) addresses several widely reported failures of health professionals in Ireland and the United Kingdom to provide even the minimal expected level of care for hospitalised patients

The concept of great tenderness in all things is unique to the Careful Nursing Philosophy and Professional Practice Model (Careful Nursing). It emerged from the historical documents describing the practice of the early to mid-19th century nurses on which Careful Nursing is based, because it infused their practice.

During this year the realisation has grown that Careful Nursing and nursing values are deeply interrelated.

No, this blog is not about importing a Scottish rock band, the HUSH, into Careful Nursing. It is about a HUSH of a quite different kind.

The Careful Nursing Philosophy and Professional Practice Model is included in a review and analysis of nursing professional practice models published lat month in the Journal of Nursing Management (Slatyer et al. 2016).

Much may be said about the heart and hands of nursing, but surely it is in the mind of nursing that our greatest treasure is to be found.

This is not to suggest that nursing assessment is easy, as in something that is simple and unexacting. Indeed, nursing assessment is a complex process and accuracy is essential. Astute nursing assessment is vital for patient safety: it can even make the difference between life and death.

Going from walking the walk to power walking the power walk . . .

There are bugs and there are bugs. There's "A Bug's Life". And there are text message bugs that can crash your phone. But the Careful Nursing Message Bug is of a different order altogether: a very special little fellow.

This reflection concerns two misalignments which arise between Careful Nursing Philosophy and the demands and structures of clinical practice.