Conferencing with an infant is certainly a unique experience! I had a blast reconnecting with many of my teachers and mentors while getting an infusion of professional and EBP goodness, though I must admit I missed my UT-DNP peeps. Every year I get to add to my list of memorable interpretive quotes and insights from the APNA conference, and APNA 14 was no exception. I am going to forgo an in-depth recap of this year's events and share some of my favorite gems. If you were there, you know who and where they came from!- We don't give enough credit to how difficult it is to be fully present
- Mindfulness is the antidote to mind wandering and time travel
- Nurses feel they have to be twice as good to be any good
- Perfect is the enemy of good
- Negotiation of difference is what we all have in common
- Assessment tools without the patient narrative assess very little
- In nursing, you can have a mid-life crisis every 7-years
- If you can't squeeze water out of a rock, don't blame the rock
- Nursing as a fall-back position is not exactly what you would call a career path
- I hope to have at least two more disclosures by the end of the month
I am already looking forward to APNA15 in Disney World - if it isn't the happiest place on earth when the psych nurses get there, believe it will be by the time we leave!
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