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imap: A Developmental Pathway for Nurses Who Walk in Balance
The time will come when with elation you will greet yourself,
Arriving at your own door, in your own mirror,
And each will smile at the other’s welcome;
Saying, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was yourself.
Give wine, give bread, give back your heart
To the stranger who was loved all your life,
Whom you abandoned for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs,
the desperate notes.
Sit. Feast on your life.
Derek Walcott
The complexities of the twenty-first-century health care system demand dynamic & vibrant nurses who provide service & compassion to the public. The one essential quality of today’s professional is that they must be their own person, authentic in every regard. A nurse whose style is consistent with their personality and character is autonomous, highly independent, practices with solid values, develops enduring relationships and leads from the heart. Such a nurse demonstrates self-discipline, identifies their growth edge and continues to develop skills & capacities while integrating them into a unified whole.
This toolkit is designed to assist any nurse wanting to walk a path of balance to create and pursue a life of excellence and authenticity. It is an invitation to pursue their purpose, live their values, and offer an authentic and healing presence to the world.
This toolkit will be available on October 18, 2005.
To review the research study on which the tool is based, please click here.
If you have any questions please contact my associate, Kristi Welch at 605 261 5363 or kwelch@interactivethink.com.
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