January 2011
- The Power of a Praying Nurse
- Nurses Fellowship & Book Review Group
- Operation La Libertad-Nicaragua
- Are you looking for an adventure?
- You Can Help!
- Shannon’s OLNM Story
- Spotlight: Ollie Benjamin, BSN, RN
- A Nurse’s Workplace Prayer
- Let us pray for you!
- OLNM's First Mentorship Program
- Tired of those unsightly care plan books cluttering up your space??
- Rummage Sale
- Silence is Deadly!
- OLNM wants to hear from you!
- Future nurses needed!
The Power of a Praying Nurse
Nurses are catalyst for healing. Good nurses are always seeking to improve their skills and use the latest best practices to promote optimal health, expedite a recovery from illness or lessen the suffering of death for their patients. The best medicine is the simplest and often most over looked. It is the power of prayer. It needs no special prescription or technique to work.
I have seen my prayers turn dire situations around for patients and families. Regretfully, I admit I have let many opportunities to pray with and for my patients pass by though. Sometimes, even after praying with them, I have shamefully not counted their good recovery as the handy work of God, as much as the miracle of modern medicine and good nursing care.
Nurses Fellowship & Book Review Group
NURSES, Need to RE-ENERGIZE Your Spiritual Batteries?
“Hungry for an authentic faith that addresses the problems of our world with tangible, even radical solutions?" Then, join us for a 10-week study of Francis Chan's best selling book: Crazy Love, as it will awaken our senses to the "radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love" of the God of the Universe and inevitably ignite a passion for God like never before.”
Our nurses fellowship and book review group begins Sunday, January 16th, from 4-6 pm, at 8620 Klondike Rd., Pensacola.
For more information email us at contact@onelovefornurses.org or call Suzie at 850-723-4409.
Operation La Libertad-Nicaragua
One Love Nursing Ministries, Inc. and Liberty Church of Pensacola, Florida are collaborating to organize a ten-day medical / humanitarian mission trip to Nicaragua March 21-31, 2011. Our mission team members are physicians, mid-level practitioners, nurses, and emergency medical personal along with lay people from across our community. Everyone participating is highly motivated to share the love of Christ while caring for bodies of impoverished and medically under served Nicaraguans.
Are you looking for an adventure?
Join us for a Medical Mission Trip to Nicaragua!
Dates: March 21-31, 2011
For details email contact@onelovefornurses.org
You Can Help!
Some of our Central American Medical/Humanitarian Mission needs are:
- Prescription drug samples
- Vitamins – All types
- Over the counter medications
- First aid supplies
- Antibacterial soap bars
- Reading glasses
- Empty pill bottles
- Monetary donations to cover supply costs
Contact Suzie at 850-723-4409 to donate.
Shannon’s OLNM Story
In July 2007, I was fortunate enough to accept a travel assignment to Honolulu for three months. It was probably the most exciting time of my adult life. During my orientation to the hospital I was contracted with, I met a girl named Heather. We hit it off right away. She was funny, fun to be around and it was a first time for both of us to travel. Over the next three months I saw something in Heather that I wanted for myself...Faith Out Loud. She spoke it. She lived it.
October came around and so did the end of my contract there. It was time to go home. As sad as I was to leave, I was excited for what lie ahead for me. I mean, there was no way I could just go back to life the way it was before THAT experience!
Spotlight: Ollie Benjamin, BSN, RN
Ollie Benjamin, RN has been with OLNM since June of last year. After having attended The Third Annual Gathering, she states she knew this is a ministry she had to plug into:
"When the night had ended, I was encouraged beyond belief by the inspirational messages presented. It opened my eyes once again to the tremendous impact we can make in the physical and spiritual lives of our patients. The meeting truly renewed my sense of purpose as a nurse to minister God's love, hope, and healing to those in need."
Her 5-year nursing career started at Baptist Hospital as a PCU nurse. She then, decided to take on a travel assignment to San Diego for 3 months working at the UCSD Medical Center. Currently, she is working with Nurses On Call at various local hospitals.
A Nurse’s Workplace Prayer
Lord, You alone God, are worthy of our praise. You alone God, are all powerful.
We ask Your blessing on each individual member of our team.
Help us to focus on and strive for excellence in nursing that we will be shining examples that glorify You.
Give us the fortitude to complete the needed tasks that will best serve our patients, institution, and community.
Lord, we pray that we will not be filled with selfish ambition or vain conceit, but will be humble in all interactions. Give us a Christ-like character.
As we work, help us to be mindful that You have promised to provide for all our needs.
Settle Your peace and prosperity on our institution, our work areas, and individual lives.
Lord, we are claiming Your full armor so that we can stand against the Devil's schemes toward us, our families, and our work.
In Christ's Holy Name,
Amen.
Let us pray for you!
Amazing things can happen through prayer and more powerfully when there is prayer in numbers. “For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” (Matt. 18:20 NIV)
The One Love Nursing Ministries’ team would like to have the opportunity to pray for you and those you know. Please send us your prayer requests to contact@onelovefornurses.org.
In Matthew 17:20 Jesus said, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
Tired of those unsightly care plan books cluttering up your space??
Have we got good news for you!
One Love Nursing Ministries is beginning a new program, The Nurses’ Bookshelf, to help hard-strapped nursing students by providing them with donated nursing resource books and materials.
So if you have graduated from nursing school and want to clear out some space, we would be happy to take those unneeded items off your hands!
Contact us at contact@onelovefornurses.org or call Hisashi Kojima at 256-622-0676 for more information or to arrange for pick up.
Rummage Sale
We are sponsoring a huge rummage sale to benefit those going on a Nicaraguan Medical Mission Trip set for March 2011.
Stop by for great deals on those can’t do without items!
You'll be supporting a great cause.
Liberty Church North Campus, 9420 Music Lane, Pensacola (Off 9 Mile Rd., Behind Popeye’s)
Silence is Deadly!
There is a Phenomenon that exists in nursing: “Nurses eat their young”. We hear it all the time and many have come to accept it as a part of the nursing culture. The Toxic Behaviors in Nursing Undermine Patient Safety, Teamwork and the Giving Potential in Nursing. The Taylor Education Institute supports the theory that Nurses and caregivers can’t fully care for patients until they have learned to care for themselves and other members of the profession. Bullying and bad behaviors do not stop in high school. Those bullies grow up and step into the adult workforce. Ending bad behaviors is important no matter what field you’re in, but it is imperative that nurse’s focus on ending the behaviors, because those nasty behaviors have lasting effects.
OLNM wants to hear from you!
Do you have a special story or answer to prayer you would like to share? Has One Love Nursing Ministries touched your life? Maybe you just need to get something off of your chest.
We would love to hear from you!
Email us at contact@onelovefornurses.org.
Future nurses needed!
Do you know a young (or maybe not so young) person that would like to learn more about a career in nursing?
Suggest they check out Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc.’s Campaign for Nursing’s Future website at http://www.discovernursing.com.
It has the who, what, why, and how of becoming a nurse.
Thank you Johnson and Johnson for caring about nurses and the future of healthcare for everyone!