Can You Imagine?

Professor Lim with his student, Sam Lee, holding a sign that says "thank you teacher" in Korean

Why I choose to be grateful

Around Thanksgiving, I bring blank thank-you cards to class and distribute them to my students. I ask them to take 5 minutes to handwrite…
Student nurse holding textbooks

Read alert: The decline of reading

A student just 2 weeks from graduation once asked me, “Where is the gallbladder?” With candid unconcern, the student admitted that she had never…
Trust in nurses

Examining Public Perception of Nurses

The public places their trust in nurses because they expect them to act truthfully, transparently, and with integrity. Imagine you’re a patient and your…
holidays and health

On Health and the Holidays

I first learned about Christmas disease while preparing for a presentation on lab values many years ago. At first glance, I thought it was…
Placebo or nocebo

Placebo, nocebo, and nursing care

The term “placebo” entered the English medical lexicon from the Latin word “placeo,” which means “I please” or “I shall please.” Its current usage,…
Health literacy varies by patient

Being Sharp in Health Literacy

In 2008, I was working as a per diem staff nurse in a medical-surgical unit at what was then called New York Downtown Hospital.…
A benevolent Nurse comforting another nurse

On leaving and loving nursing

The nursing shortage is as old as the dawn of modern nursing itself. Of the 38 nurses under the supervision of Florence Nightingale and…
Professor Lim with his student, Sam Lee, holding a sign that says "thank you teacher" in Korean

Why I choose to be grateful

Around Thanksgiving, I bring blank thank-you cards to class and distribute them to my students. I ask them to take 5 minutes…
Student nurse holding textbooks

Read alert: The decline of reading

A student just 2 weeks from graduation once asked me, “Where is the gallbladder?” With candid unconcern, the student admitted that she…
Trust in nurses

Examining Public Perception of Nurses

The public places their trust in nurses because they expect them to act truthfully, transparently, and with integrity. Imagine you’re a patient…
holidays and health

On Health and the Holidays

I first learned about Christmas disease while preparing for a presentation on lab values many years ago. At first glance, I thought…
Placebo or nocebo

Placebo, nocebo, and nursing care

The term “placebo” entered the English medical lexicon from the Latin word “placeo,” which means “I please” or “I shall please.” Its…
A benevolent Nurse comforting another nurse

On leaving and loving nursing

The nursing shortage is as old as the dawn of modern nursing itself. Of the 38 nurses under the supervision of Florence…
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