Our hope

Our Best Hope

WHEN I THINK about practical techniques that help members of software development teams truly be “refl ective practitioners,” my mind goes straight to project retrospectives. Our special issue wouldn’t be complete without discussing this approach, which lets teams learn from their own experiences, refl ect on what has actually happened, and see how to do it better next time. To learn more,

Inspiring hope in our rehabilitation patients, their families, and ourselves.

When confronted with a devastating disability or chronic illness, rehabilitation nurses play a key role in inspiring hope for patients and their families. This article examines strategies nurses can implement in everyday practice: creating an environment of hope in a rehabilitation unit; assisting patients to manage their negative feelings about their disability; relieving chronic neuropathic p...

Hospital medical staffing: our hope for years to come.

Violence: the malignancy of our times! Is there hope?

I am truly honored to be here with you tonight and to remember Karen Homey. It's hard to believe that 50 years have gone by since Karen Homey founded the American Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. Her contributions to the field of analysis and psychiatry have survived the test of time, forming a link between the old school of pure psychoanal...

Hope against Hope

In the penultimate chapter of the Bible, in the opening statement of the very last speech God makes in the whole of the Christian Scriptures, God says: "Behold I am making all things new" (Rev 21:5). The prophet sees the old heavens and the old earth the universe as it now is passing away, and new heavens and a new earth, God's new creation of all things, coming into being. It is not that God r...