Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Feb 4, 2012, 1:14 am
Dear Readers, In our coaching practices, my wife Mary and I consistently talk about the importance of self care and personal well-being, and how crucial this is for us to be most effective out in the world. Without self care, we can't be at our best, and our energy is dissipated and less powerful. ...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Jan 31, 2012, 8:04 pm
Just the other day, my wife and I went for a walk with some new friends. As we were saying goodbye, one of our friends innocently asked, "So, how many hours do you work at the hospital?" While his question was well-meaning, it once again belied the fact that so many people make wild assumptions abou...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Jan 31, 2012, 6:49 pm
Our newly birthed internet radio station for nurses---RN.FM Radio---is maturing into a reliable weekly source of inspiration, encouragement, interviews and nursing news that many nurses are flocking to every Monday evening at 9pm EST.  The brainchild of myself, Anna Morrison of I Coach Nurses, and...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Jan 25, 2012, 11:28 am
Arizona State Board of Nursing 4747 North 7th Street, Suite 200 Phoenix, AZ 85014-3655 602-771-7800 Phone 602-771-7888 Fax arizona@azbn.gov Email http://www.azbn.gov/Default.aspx To the Arizona State Board of Nursing: I am a nurse, coach, nurse blogger and professional writer, and I have been follo...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Jan 25, 2012, 9:54 am
Here is the text of a letter to the Arizona Board of Nursing posted by Anna Morrison of I Coach Nurses. Please disseminate widely. The original post can be found by clicking here. Arizona State Board of Nursing 4747 North 7th Street, Suite 200 Phoenix, AZ 85014-3655 602-771-7800 Phone 602-771-7888 F...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Jan 24, 2012, 6:34 pm
Some readers of Digital Doorway may have already heard the story of Amanda Trujillo, an Arizona nurse who has lost her license based on nursing actions taken that were apparently fully within her scope of practice. In the course of caring for a patient who was facing the potential of a liver transpl...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Jan 19, 2012, 9:03 am
As always, I begin my book reviews with the disclosure that I did not receive financial compensation of any kind for this review, but did receive a free copy of this drug guide from Majors Books in order to facilitate the review process. -------- Some frequent readers of Digital Doorway will recall...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Jan 18, 2012, 2:41 pm
Well, it may seem like a blink of an eye at times, but Digital Doorway has been alive and well for seven years today, born from a simple suggestion by my prescient brother as we sat in front of the woodstove on a snowy New England night. I can hardly believe that so much time has passed since that J...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Jan 15, 2012, 8:09 am
Just a reminder that tomorrow, January 16th, 2012, Andrew Lopez of Nursefriendly.com will be our guest on RN.FM Radio. Andrew is the consummate connector and promoter of nurses, and we look forward to his appearance on RN.FM Radio! Tune in or listen to the archived show afterwards. Also, please tak...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Jan 11, 2012, 6:41 pm
A note to the reader: As always, I have received no remuneration for posting this book review. As a point of disclosure, I did, however, receive a free copy of the book from the author in order to facilitate the review process. -------------- "Confident Voices: The Nurse's Guide to Improving Commun...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Jan 9, 2012, 10:37 am
Today, on Monday the 9th of January, 2012 at 9pm EST, RN.FM Radio will launch its inaugural broadcast on Blog Talk Radio. RN.FM Radio is the newest voice to emerge vis-a-vis the cutting edge of the nursing profession, and RN.FM Radio will bring to the airwaves the most diverse mix of entrepreneurs, ...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Jan 3, 2012, 7:54 pm
The following letter is being sent to all members of Congress to enlist their support of The National Nurse Act of 2011. If you would like to be a signatory to this letter, please contact Terri Mills, President of theNational Nursing Network Organization, whose contact information is listed below. ...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Jan 2, 2012, 10:59 pm
As nurses, when we are preparing to walk into an exam room, a hospital room, or a patient's home, we bring with us a veritable toolbox of skills, ranging from biopsychosocial analysis to keen physical assessment skills. We are trained to look at the whole patient, the family system, and the multifac...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Dec 31, 2011, 1:13 am
In the last few days, my new website and coaching venture was officially birthed! Nurse Keith Coaching is now live, and the process of making it a reality has paid off! There has been a great deal of support from my community of friends, family and colleagues. Now the task is spreading the word that...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Dec 27, 2011, 12:09 pm
As the dawn of 2012 beckons, I hold a new vision for the nursing profession. Along with the rest of large segments of humanity, nurses are waking up. Nurses are realizing that the old paradigms no longer apply, and that the vestiges of Old World thinking (when it comes to nursing and medicine) are d...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Dec 21, 2011, 7:42 pm
On January 9th, 2012, several esteemed nurse entrepreneurs and I will officially launch RN.FM Radio: Nursing Unleashed, a new internet radio station on Blog Talk Radio! Our mission is to shake up the nursing profession and blow the roof off of the idea of a nurse as just a humble bedside servant. We...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Nov 2, 2011, 7:35 pm
Periodically, I receive unsolicited requests by publishers and media agencies to review books here on Digital Doorway. In return for my services, I receive a copy---or several copies---of said tome, and the satisfaction of thinking---and writing---like a critic. There have been a few books that I've...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Oct 25, 2011, 1:33 pm
For the last several months, I have been actively supporting the now worldwide "Occupy" movement that has swept the world following the initiation of the famous "Occupy Wall Street" action in New York City. Here in Santa Fe, New Mexico, my wife and I have taken part in marches, rallies, protests and...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Oct 16, 2011, 12:00 am
On several occasions, I have participated in Blog Action Day, an annual event wherein bloggers from around the world post simultaneously about a chosen topic of global importance. This year, food is the topic of concern, and thousands of bloggers from more than 80 countries are posting about the sub...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Oct 7, 2011, 11:13 pm
To learn how to die is to learn how to live; to learn how to live is to learn how to act not only in this life but in the lives to come. To transform yourself truly and learn how to be reborn as a transformed being to help others is really to help the world in the most powerful way of all.Let us dar...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Oct 4, 2011, 8:20 pm
A few months ago, I shared here on Digital Doorway that my mother had died suddenly from a massive and unexpected stroke which occurred while she was giving a piano recital with some of her music students. Five weeks prior, my father-in-law suffered a major heart attack, dying in his easy chair afte...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Sep 8, 2011, 12:54 pm
The good people over at Online Nursing Degrees recently decided to conduct several in-depth interviews with nine nurse bloggers from various professional backgrounds in the nursing world. I am honored to have been chosen as one of the interviewees, and want to provide a link to curious readers to th...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Aug 2, 2011, 3:09 pm
Many regular readers of Digital Doorway will remember that I have supported The Fresh Air Fund for several years. The Fresh Air Fund has provided opportunities for inner-city children in the New York area to experience summer vacation in the homes of host families in the Northeastern United States a...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Aug 1, 2011, 12:07 am
My thanks to Johnson and Johnson for featuring me in their recent "Nursing Notes" newsletter about nurse entrepreneurs. If you want to read the issue, click here and scroll to the bottom for my brief interview.
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Jul 20, 2011, 4:29 pm
“Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between” by Theresa Brown (Harper Collins, 2010), is a deeply personal book that details the transformation of an English professor into a oncology nurse. Honest and self-disclosing, Brown describes her decision to leave the cozy w...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Jul 20, 2011, 11:27 am
Thank you to the website QI Exam Prep for including Digital Doorway on it's list of the 25 best nursing blogs on the Internet. I am humbled to be included in such stellar blogging company.
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Jun 28, 2011, 7:46 pm
On May 26th, just over one month ago, I posted a blog post entitled The Ride of a Lifetime in which I ruminated about life, death, mortality, and my own coming of age as an elder. In that post, I paid homage to my recently deceased father-in-law, my newly widowed mother-in-law, and my deceased step-...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Jun 7, 2011, 11:55 am
Here are links to a number of my most recent editorials published on BlackDoctor.org. My thanks to BlackDoctor for their continued support and enthusiasm. Do You Know Your Hospital Rights? Are VOCs a Hazard to Your Health? Hydrating for Health Is Tea Tree Oil For You? Living With Grieving
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - May 26, 2011, 7:56 am
Over the last six or seven months or so, mortality, health and illness have played a significant role in my personal life, and led to many musings about these weighty and universal subjects. On Thanksgiving Day of last year, my father was hospitalized for a mysterious set of symptoms that left him b...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - May 25, 2011, 2:14 pm
A new website, Nursing License Map, offers an interactive map with the mission of clarifying the process of becoming a licensed nurse in any state of the country. The interactive site offers a detailed analysis of licensing requirements for various types of nursing, as well as average salaries, live...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - May 5, 2011, 8:45 pm
For those readers interested in health, please click here to read my latest editorial for BlackDoctor.org on the subject of VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds). From carpeting and paint to cars and new shower curtains, VOCs are the #1 source of poor indoor air quality. VOCs are worthy of attention, es...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Apr 22, 2011, 12:20 am
My latest article for Working Nurse Magazine (on the subject of the specialty of Psychiatric Nursing) was recently published both in print and online. Please click here to access the online version of the article.
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Apr 16, 2011, 9:09 pm
Every American Needs a Nurse: The National Nurse Act of 2011 introduced in Congress Washington D.C.-- On March 16, 2011 Congressman Anthony Weiner (NY-9), on behalf of nurses across the country, introduced The National Nurse Act of 2011 into Congress to establish a National Nurse for Public Healt...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Apr 6, 2011, 4:45 pm
I was recently interviewed on The Nurses Station, a weekly interview podcast "by nurses for nurses" (although it is quite interesting for non-nurses as well, I must say). It was an honor to be featured on The Nurses Station, and I encourage my readers to surf over and listen to the interview, which...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Mar 30, 2011, 5:41 pm
After many years of tireless advocacy on the part of some very dedicated individuals, the push to establish the position of a National Nurse for Public Health under the Office of the Surgeon General has gained considerable Congressional support (currently nine co-sponsors in the House of Representat...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Mar 15, 2011, 5:55 pm
Just today, Medpac---the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission---issued a report to Congress recommending reinstatement of co-payments for elderly Medicare recipients receiving home health services. Medpac, an independent Congressional commission, is comprised of various professionals with expertise ...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Mar 3, 2011, 10:40 pm
Allied Health World has chosen ten top nursing blogs for 2011, and I am honored and humbled that Digital Doorway has been chosen for this award. My gratitude to Allied Health World for their recognition of Digital Doorway, but even more for their recognition of the importance of nurses---and nurse b...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Mar 1, 2011, 1:54 pm
I find that my days are simply filled with opportunities for feeling compassion for others. Consequently, it is those moments when I can connect with my compassion when I feel most connected, optimistic and part of something bigger than my little life. As a nurse, one can often be consistently confr...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Feb 26, 2011, 7:07 pm
My newest article for Working Nurse Magazine, on the subject of Burn Care Nursing, is currently available for reading online. Please click here to read the article, and thanks!
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Feb 22, 2011, 7:28 pm
I am republishing this post from 2008 because this subject of nurses' image still seems incredibly timely and worthy of thought and attention. Enjoy! --------------- (Note: This is my sixth post under the auspices of the nurse blogger scholarship which I recently received from Value Care, Value Nurs...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Feb 17, 2011, 5:28 pm
On March 20th, 2o11, The Fresh Air Fund is once again hosting its annual Half-Marathon, an amazing 13.1-mile course through beautiful Central Park, continuing on through Times Square and ending with breathtaking finish-line views of the New York City harbor. More than 11,000 runners, of all ages a...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Feb 16, 2011, 10:40 pm
These days, it seems like sweeteners have made their sneaky way into almost everything. From soup to nuts, it's apparent that there can be no enlightened trip to the grocery store---or even the health food store---without the very careful reading of ingredient labels. Manufacturers are simply practi...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Feb 15, 2011, 4:29 pm
I just took part in writing a short article for BestNursingDegree.com regarding the benefits and challenges of online nursing degree programs as opposed to traditional "brick and mortar" programs. Please click here if you'd like to peruse this brief article.
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Jan 3, 2011, 3:12 pm
When I teach meditation, I often begin by saying: “Bring your mind home. And release. And relax.”To bring your mind home means to bring the mind into the state of Calm Abiding through the practice of mindfulness. In its deepest sense, to bring your mind home is to turn your mind inward and rest ...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Dec 29, 2010, 7:36 pm
"I know we've met before but I actually don't remember you," she says. "That's OK. I remember you, and that's what matters. Nice to see you." I sit down at the table after she shakes my hand. "I'm sorry I don't remember you, but you are very tall and handsome. Are you married?" She gives her ubiquit...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Dec 27, 2010, 9:28 pm
Well, dear Readers, yet another year in our lives has slipped through the fingers of time, and we pause to consider our blessings, count our lucky stars, and plan for the New Year ahead. For me, this has been a year of great and momentous change. As most of you know, in October of 2009, my wife Mary...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Dec 14, 2010, 1:00 pm
My newest article for Working Nurse Magazine---on the subject of pediatric nursing---is currently available online. Although the print version has more photos, the article text is identical. Enjoy!
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Dec 11, 2010, 1:32 am
The other day, I had the opportunity to meet a very kind gentleman in his mid-forties, not one year younger than me. And like most people in our forties, we eventually got around to talking about our health. During our chat, he pulled out a pack of miniature cigars and began puffing quite vehemently...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Dec 5, 2010, 8:35 pm
Recently visiting my father in the hospital and participating in his transfer to an acute rehab facility, it brought home the ironic fact that hospitals and other inpatient facilities are often the last places where one would want to be in order to recuperate from illness. Although hospitals offer a...
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Keith posted an article on Digital Doorway - Nov 24, 2010, 12:34 am
"My, you're tall and handsome. Will you be staying with me?" She looks up at me from her seat next to the window. "I'm the nurse and I'm just coming by to check on you. Besides, I'm married, and my wife wouldn't like it if I didn't come home." I sit down next to her on the couch. She laughs. "What's...
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