It just keeps getting better...

I last posted over a year ago. But I'm going to try to stay more current now.

 I'm just back from Ireland where I was privileged to deliver a keynote at the Annual Conference of  Mental Health Nurse Managers Ireland. I say privileged because I'm in awe of the work these folk do and the way they seem to do it. I met so many good people there. And how wonderful - the theme of the whole conference was Mindfulness. We had the delightful Tony Bates from Headstrong in Dublin, the richly informed Mary-Jo Keitzer from the University of Minnesota, myself and the wonderful Ruby Wax giving keynotes. We had a lot of fun on the panel discussions.

It's such good news that people who put themselves on the line they way these nurse managers do, struggling to deliver good services at a time of austerity (and that's acute in Ireland right now) have had the chance to learn stuff that might be valuable to their patients, their staff and - above all - themselves. When managers are more mindful the whole system gains.