Mindfulness for Job Burnout and Addiction (Guest Post)

For this post, I'd like to introduce my friend and peer Tiffany Swedeen. Tiffany is a talented and multifaceted RN who works in the Northwest. Tiffany's rich experience and her journey into and through a difficult period of life inspired me to share her vision and work in this post.    Job Burnout Took Me By Surprise     As an eager new nurse working in acute care in 2005, I wrote an article on ‘Job Burnout” for my department’s nursing newsletter. I believed my suggestions would encourage the more seasoned and weary staff to seek self-care. Little did I [...]

2018-08-01T09:15:42-06:00By |Uncategorized|3 Comments

The Buddha Walks Into a Bar…[this is meditation?]

There's a joke that goes something like this: A monk walks up to a hot-dog stand and says "make me one with everything"...you've heard this one before? Well, you may have heard that corny joke about the hot-dog stand, but you haven't read a book like this before...unless you've read some of the late Chogyam Trungpa's works, in which case you're ahead of the crowd. And even then, what author Lodro Rinzler has to say is new, fresh and definitely unique. Appealing to a younger crowd, "The Buddha Walks Into a Bar" brings some key Buddhist concepts about meditation and [...]

2012-04-20T11:18:44-06:00By |Uncategorized|0 Comments

Welcome to Minding the Bedside – Nursing from the heart of the Awakened Mind

is a book about mindfulness, meditation and compassion practices, written specifically for nurses. However, it can be read and bring benefit to anyone who would like to learn to work with their mind and heart in being more present in their daily life. This site is dedicated to the creation of a community of people whose focus is on bringing mindfulness, meditation, and compassion practices into their life and in sharing their experience –successes as well as failures – in applying these practices. click here for the free download!

2012-12-06T20:43:39-07:00By |Uncategorized|1 Comment

Meet the Author!

Jerome Stone is a Registered Nurse with over thirty years in a variety of health-care settings, including pain management, hospice care, ICU, and research in complimentary and alternative medicine. He is a long-time practitioner of meditation, with an emphasis in the study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism and an interest in Christian and Kabbalistic Contemplation. In addition to his Nursing degree, he also holds degrees in Environment Education and a dual-degree in Comparative Mythology and Depth Psychology. He lives in Boulder Colorado with his wife, Jill Siegel-Stone, and their son Noah. Besides his love for his family and for the [...]

2012-07-30T15:02:25-06:00By |Uncategorized|0 Comments

Minding the Bedside: New Chapter – Introduction

Well, now that I've gotten this blog posted, it's given me the motivation to get a few more chapters ready for reader-review. Since this blog is new, I know that it will take some time to get traffic to the site and viewers and reviewers to read the chapters. As long as you're here, if you've the mind to, feel free to upload the chapters that I've linked to my posts and let me know what you think. First, you'll need to Download Blog reader guidelines. Then, go to  Download WMB INTRODUCTION blog file to download the Introduction. Next, read [...]

2011-10-08T20:03:56-06:00By |Uncategorized|0 Comments
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