Many Loves

It seems we are always looking for love, many times in all the wrong places. We look to other people, material things or, social status to give us love. In writing this piece I explored the many aspects of love, external and internal, which touch a person. Love seems to be as important as food and water for one to thrive, and somewhat easier to give than receive. I have personally struggled with self-love and continue to remind myself that I am a unique, complicated person that contributes positively to society. As I stated in the piece, To love one\u27s self takes so much effort and pain, time, learning, and acceptance. Maybe we are the artist and the work in progress

Looking for love in all the wrong places: Accessing sexual and reproductive health information via the Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature.

The Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature (RGPL) has been described as a cultural barometer. It supports scholars of history and culture by providing access to ideas circulated via the mass media in earlier times, but its own coverage and indexing practices also reveal attitudes and values toward issues of the time. The Progressive Era (1900-1924) coincides with the founding and growth of the RGPL. Examining how the Guide directed readers’ attention to matters of sexual and reproductive health in its first quarter century demonstrates changes in social attitudes and has implications for scholarly work. The array of index terms required to locate information on this topic indicates both barriers to information access for contemporary readers as well as challenges for present-day scholars concerned with recovering information of the era

A Critical Reflection on Advanced Practice Nursing

Legitimation of the Nurse Practitioner (NP) and advanced practice nursing is explored using the framework of critical theory and the case study methodology of Yin. Three different cases are analyzed using classic themes of critical theory - oppression, alienation and ideology and false consciousness. Three publishable articles comprise this portfolio. First is Looking for love (legitimation) in all the wrong places - A critique of Nurse Practitioner effectiveness literature . This article reviews the literature of NP effectiveness and offers an analysis of the failures and problems of these positivistic studies. Article two is At least some of us are still alive – whatever happened to history? The historical context. The history of nursing and the genesis of the NP role are explored using the themes of oppression and alienated labor and their dialectic relationship to praxis. The third is Just a nurse - A critical reflection on a nurse\u27s tale. An interview with a NP educated in an early program reveals the inherent ideology and false consciousness which underpin the role of the NP and continues to subvert and derail legitimation of Nurse Practitioners

The Power of Forgiveness to Heal Relationships

The power of forgiveness can heal any relationship from friendship to marriage and as a foundation can reveal the true God power of love within one’s self. This paper claims that forgiveness in relationships can eliminate judgment, fear, anger, and blame, leading to the true love that reflects God’s Universal nature, and how forgiveness heals us all