I've witnessed many aspects of nursing, the good, bad and ugly. I've found most nurses, aides and physical therapist to be compassionate but overworked. I wanted to create a tool to Revive, Empower and Motivate this next generation to embrace this profession and give it the energy needed for the service required.
Nursing requires a lot of skill and compassion, care/compassion being the operative word because it is part of the healing process. One can go through the processes all day long but when the compassion is missing it reflects in the mental and physical attitude of the patient.
Nurses Wield Grace and Grit brings awareness to the need for grace to administer the work of the profession and grit to operate under the pressure to perform. In an effort to meet the needs of their patients nurses are confronted with their own issues such as exhaustion from long hours, compassion fatigue, team and management conflicts, etc. There are tools within this book to address those issues and so much more.
Dixon, Williemae: - "Mae Dixon is the Amazon best-selling author of "The Secret Code of Girls - The Ins & Outs of Being a Female," " The Secret Code of Girls - Empowering Girls to Become Confident Women and "Restored by Grace - A Journey Like No Other".Dixon has also authored teen journals, poems, blogs and newsletters. Dixon has experienced a rewarding real estate career for over 40 years where she received numerous awards, public exposure (newspaper, magazines, podcasts & tv) for her expertise and peer leadership including Realtor of the Year and Top Gun in Real Estate. She is a certified spiritual healing coach and has written and facilitated numerous empowerment programs for women and youth. Dixon is a community advocate for survivors of domestic violence and social justice. She has founded and served on numerous boards and committees and received awards and recognition for her leadership. Dixon is the proud mother of two sons who blessed her with many grand and great-grandchildren."
McGee, Stacy: - Stacy McGee is an Occupational Therapist originally from Statesboro, Ga and currently residing in McDonough Ga. Stacy has practiced Occupational Therapy for 20 years in various settings- inpatient rehab, mental health facilities, and home health. She has a passion for working with the Geriatric population. Stacy is also a wife, a mother of two teens and an avid runner.
Rampersaud, Hiram K.: - Currently residing in NY, Ken was born and raised in Guyana. He remains a Leonarian Guyana boy at heart. Ken attended the Georgetown School of Nursing where he graduated as a LPN and was recognized as the "best graduating student" amongst 36 students. He started his career in nursing at the Psychiatric Unit of the Georgetown Hospital in Guyana, and received a meritorious award for his work before emigrating to the United States of America in January, 1990 at the age of 25. Ken has a wealth of experience in mental health and addiction; he has spent 29 years working in Harlem, NY serving the under resourced, the underserved, the underprivileged, the addicted and the mentally challenged. His professional and humanitarian traits have earned him over 25 nursing awards during his practice.Ken is also a radio talk show host on Island Zone Radio, his shows "The Ken Rampersaud Show" airs every Sunday evening from 5:00pm to 7:00 pm and "From our hearts with Radhika and Ken" airs every Monday night 8:00-10:00 pm. Ken is the director and producer of these two shows which focus on bringing awareness and solutions to the issues that are affecting our community and our people both in the USA and in Guyana. Ken is very passionate on the subjects of suicide prevention and domestic violence among other issues such as alcoholism, mental health, health and self care in general. With the increasing rise in the numbers of deaths of our young people due to suicide and domestic abuse, it has become a very disturbing issue and Ken has expanded his work and extended his hand in order to help the entire community. In addition to the radio, he is currently being sought out to give " pep talks" and orientation to the youths at schools, mandirs and community gatherings to let them know there are other solutions and he and his team is there to listen and to help. Ken lives in Queens Village, NY with his wife Geeta and their sons . You can follow and communicate with him on FB and of course on his radio show.
