Abundance in Health Care

A change in viewpoint is in order some days. It's been easy to complain about the problems of health care and I spend my share of hours griping. A word that I need to add to my vocabulary is ABUNDANCE. When I look around, I really do see a full and amazing health care system. At the core is the issue of sharing/distributing the largess. I'll save that topic for another post.

This post is about looking at all that we do have. The minister of Christ Unity Church in Sacramento spoke about abundance one Sunday. He wanted us to look at our lives and not see the deficits but to see what is there. When I shifted my focus and considered my nursing job, I saw the abundance. Every time I go into the store room, it is full with all of the supplies that I need. There is medicine and syringes in every size with needles to match. We have warm blankets, gurneys, monitoring devices, staff, computers, information and technology that can do amazing things. It's really an abundant place to work. And amidst the suffering and pain, there is much love and caring for the patients, from family members. Its quite amazing when the view shifts. I was prompted to write this post because of the article linked below. The article is about a county hospital in Des Moines, Iowa (the city where I went to nursing school) that has transformed itself. One of the keys in their transformation according to the author, is moving from a "poverty mentality to an abundance mentality." I wonder what health care could look like if we started seeing the greatness in our health care instead of focusing on the deficiencies.

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