This year I am pleased to be sharing the news that AMSN, the specialty organization for medical-surgical nurses, is 25 years old. AMSN was not an option at that time but I did join early and this is where I have chosen to devote my time and energy. When I graduated, I joined several organizations. Membership and active involvement were emphasized early in my nursing education. Use of this website and/or submission of payment constitutes your acceptance of AMSN.
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I also use these public forums to share my belief in the benefits of belonging to a professional organization. Please enter your email address below to see if you already have an account. These registered nurses were enthusiastic participants as we discussed ethical issues they had faced during their first few months of practice.Įvery time I speak to a group of nurses, I readily share my educational and professional background, including how many years I have been practicing: 33 years to date. I knew our hospital had hired the best of the best of the recent graduates. I looked around the room and was pleasantly surprised by the mix of age, sex, and ethnicity. Death always cures "the green sickness.I recently had the privilege of speaking to newly licensed registered nurses attending a session for our nurse residency program.
I don't care how many trophies or awards or dollars or degrees may be earned or won on earth, you can't take 'em with you. And even when it is, a lot of things you got hot and bothered about during your lifetime won't even show up in eternity. You are you-not them! And you are responsible to do the best you can with what you've got for as long as you're able. Having some big struggles with envy? Eating your heart out because somebody's a step or two ahead of you in the race and gaining momentum? Relax. Not having to "be better" or "go further" or "own more" or "prove to the world" or "reach the top" or. Feeling comfortable and secure with where you are and who you are. (If you question that, better check Matthew 27:18.) Paul tells us that it's one of the prevailing traits of depravity (Romans 1:29) and a team member that plays in the same backfield with profanity, suspicion, and conceit (1 Timothy 6:4). It sold Joseph into slavery, drove David into exile, threw Daniel in the den, and put Christ on trial.
In a dark, constricting world of almost unendurable self-imposed anguish.Įnvy in Scripture? Look at the facts. The symbolism is apt, showing the reader that it is one of the blindest sins-partly because it is unreasonable, partly because the envious person is sewed up in himself. In his Purgatory, you may recall, the envious sit like blind beggars by a wall. Shakespeare called it "the green sickness." Bacon admitted "it has no holidays." Horace declared that "tyrants never invented a greater torment." Barrie said envy "is the most corroding of the vices." Sheridan referred to it in his play The Critic when he wrote, "There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as this." Philip Bailey, the eloquent English poet of yesteryear, vividly described it as "a coal comes hissing hot from hell."Īnd speaking of hell, no one has done a better job of portraying envy than Dante.
Shakespeare called it "the green sickness." Bacon admitted "it has no holidays." Horace declared that "tyrants never invented a greater torment." Barrie said envy "is the most corroding of the vices."
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