When a patient asks if you believe in God nurse life gets complicated — fast. It happens when you least expect it. You’re doing obs. Changing a dressing. Sitting with someone at 2am because they can’t sleep and you have five minutes before the next round. And they look at you and ask. “Do you … Read more
Christian nurse toxic workplace — nobody warns you what it does to your faith when the environment itself is the problem. Some workplaces are hard because nursing is hard. And some workplaces are hard because something is actually wrong. The gossip that never stops. The manager who plays favourites. The colleague who undermines you in … Read more
A prayer before code blue nurse — this is what I learned to pray when there’s no time for anything else. There’s no time for a long prayer. The alarm goes off. The call comes through. Your body moves before your brain catches up — and suddenly you’re running down the corridor with your heart … Read more
Too tired to pray nurse life — some nights, you come home and the words just aren’t there. Some nights, you get home and you have nothing. Not just physically. Everything. The words are gone. The thoughts are gone. You sit on the edge of the bed and the idea of forming a coherent prayer … Read more
Christian nurse faith and shift work — learning to hold onto God when your roster never lines up with the church calendar. The church calendar was not designed around a twelve-hour shift pattern. There was a season when I couldn’t remember the last Sunday I’d been to church. Not because I didn’t want to go. … Read more
There was a shift where a patient died alone. I had done everything I could. The care was good — I know that. But they went without family, without anyone who loved them in the room, and there was nothing I could do to change that. The call bell was already ringing from somewhere else. … Read more
I pray for my patients quietly. Internally. Without saying a word out loud. Not because the prayer is less real that way — but because the people I care for come from every background, every belief system, every relationship with faith imaginable. Some are deeply religious. Some want nothing to do with God. Some are … Read more
When nursing makes you spiritually numb, it doesn’t announce itself — it just quietly settles in. I watched a film recently where an elderly woman brought a cup of coffee to the main character. Room temperature. Deliberately. The grandmother knew exactly what she was doing — she brought it that way on purpose. And when … Read more
I want to be honest about something that doesn’t come up much in Christian nursing circles. My faith is not on fire. It is not particularly warm. Most days, working in a hospital or aged care facility, it feels — if I’m being completely truthful — a little flat. A little quiet. A little like … Read more