Healthcare professionals and patients realize that healthcare is forever changing. Yet 1 thing remains constant: Nursing leaders are driven to perform effectively, economically, and efficiently while being highly invested in human caring. Doing the right intervention at the right time for the patient, their families, and communities continues to inspire us. No wonder the annual Gallup survey on...

Nurses and health care professionals should have an active role in meeting the spiritual needs of patients in collaboration with the family and the chaplain. Literature criticizes the impaired holistic care because the spiritual dimension is often overlooked by health care professionals. This could be due to feelings of incompetence due to lack of education on spiritual care; lack of inter-prof...

This note is yet another opportunity to consider why it is so difficult to develop systems and networks with predictable behavior — and especially those that must satisfy stringent requirements for trustworthiness. We contrast these difficulties with somewhat similar situations in several other fields. In particular, we seek to discover some useful insights from consideration of analogous probl...