Have you heard of Invisible Children? It was started when a few college students traveled to Africa, and ended up discovering a horrible tragedy inflicted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Northern Uganda. The LRA has since left Uganda, but now they have moved to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan. The organization focuses on using media- like this video-to advance their cause. It's definitely worth checking out, and a movement worth participating in. The actual and real needs and wants of the African people are being met, which is an element often missing from many efforts to help Africa.
Anyways.
..the most recent updates on the Invisible Children website included a post about a humorous website called 1000 Awesome Things. The site has a description for each item on the lengthy list. Anyone can identify with at least one, if not all, of these awesome things. The author and inventive person behind all of this even published a book entitled The Book of Awesome. Here's a video with the author telling the story behind his creation:So you stressed out and over-worked nurses and nursing students.....get excited because you get to experience something awesome all the time!!
#380 out of 1000: Hearing someone's heartbeat
Of course, the author describes the sentimental setting when you are lying next to your special someone and able to hear their heart beating. But nurses get to hear the clearest (hopefully not muffled!) heart sounds. Go back to your first days as a nursing student when you proudly took out your shiny stethoscope and showed your friends and parents how you could find their apical pulse. The next time you assess a patient, take just a few extra seconds and take in this phenomenal-and awesome-part of your day.
