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The Nurse Martin
Healing Through Faith & Science
Thoughtful reflections on health, nursing, faith, leadership, and whole-person healing.
How to Heal a Broken Heart: Lessons from a Cardiac NICU Nurse
In the Cardiac NICU, I care for the smallest hearts—structurally fragile, rhythmically unstable, and sometimes barely holding on. I monitor heart rates in the hundreds, oxygen saturation at the margins, and pressures that rise and fall with every breath. But over the…
Fitting In vs. Belonging: Knowing the Difference Changes Everything
There is a quiet grief that comes from spending too much of your life trying to fit in. It often appears as exhaustion. Not because life itself is hard, but because fitting in is exhausting. It costs you your questions, your depth, and your passion. You learn to edit…