How Do I Ask Jesus to Be My Savior? Asking Jesus to be your Savior is easy if you genuinely want to make that commitment because Jesus knows what is in your heart and makes it possible for you. Jesus loves all of us no matter what we have done and wants us to be […]
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What does God consider a sin? Sin can be many things, but essentially, it is anything that separates us from God. Sin occurs when a person acts or behaves in a way that does not conform to God’s character or commands. It’s a failure to do the right thing and represents a rebellion against God.
The best way to understand Christianity is to have the fundamental truths of the faith explained to you clearly and concisely. Therefore, I’ll take a stab at that below. The Bible – God’s written Word The Bible is the history and guidebook for our faith. It explains the story of creation, mankind, salvation, and eternity.
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Asked to Become HR Director In 1985, the CEO of the healthcare organization where Donna worked as Director of Education asked her to become the Director of Human Resources. He offered to provide her with the training she needed if she accepted the job. She agreed, and he did. Although there was an initial steep
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Formal Education Donna attended elementary school in Henry, Virginia, and completed her secondary education at Franklin County Junior and Senior High School in Rocky Mount, Virginia. Franklin County, Virginia. She graduated with honors (4th in a class of four hundred) and promptly entered Roanoke Memorial Hospital’s (RMH) School of Nursing to pursue her training to
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First Full-Time RN Job Not long after starting the orthopedic job, the Day-Shift Nurse Clinician approached me about taking on the role of Evening-Shift Nurse Clinician. I said it sounded exciting. She asked me to apply formality but wanted me to begin training the following Monday. God, in his infinite wisdom, placed me in the
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Pre-Nursing Training When someone asks about my first job, I say I was an Official Baseball Scorekeeper. Scorekeeping was the first job where I received pay for something I did, hours to keep, and specific job expectations. I attended all my brother’s ball games and agreed when asked if I would become the Official Baseball
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All patient healthcare organizations providing services must have a state license for all physical locations. In addition, regulatory agencies (i.e., the local authority, state legislation, or federal government) require the following: The Department of Health requires a license plus certification for those who receive funding from the U.S. Centers for Medicare or Medicaid Services. Though
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Going to the hospital is scary because everyone knows doctors only practice medicine; they haven’t perfected it yet. Furthermore, doctors are not all-knowing like God, even though some have a God complex. Therefore, entering the hospital for care assumes an element of risk. In my opinion, the risk increased significantly after COVID-19 for the following
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On March 5, 2025, Lynn entered a local specialty hospital to continue his medical recovery and (liberate from) come off a ventilator. The improvement in his cardiac and respiratory failure made him ineligible to remain in the intensive care unit. Unfortunately, the hospital where he was a patient did not accept patients with ventilators into
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If you have been at the hospital a while, you have probably accumulated a lot of stuff there. Pack what you don’t need and take it home. Do a load of laundry and put what you can away so you can have all that done before you come home for good. Measure Access Routes Imagine
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Shortly after admission, begin making your discharge plans for home. After that, adjust that plan whenever your family member’s health status changes. I make that recommendation because hospitals are notorious for coming in the day before and saying, “Are you ready to go home tomorrow?” when all the while, you’ve been thinking your family member
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