Reflections on Salt Water

May is national walking month and with several bank holidays and more hours of daylight it is a lovely time of year to get out and about. The hedgerows are full of blues, pinks and shades of white at the moment having gone through the yellows of spring. I enjoy walking whatever the weather and find that the space can often help with studying especially if I have been struggling with the phrasing of a paragraph or how to lay out an idea clearly. I have had to find ways to stop and record my idea (I usually dictate an email to myself - until I find a better option) so that I can then use it later. Long distance trails are getting lots of attention at the moment as The salt path is due to be released at the end of this month. This is a film of a book about a couple who, at their lowest point in life felt they had no choices left and started walking on the South West Coast Path, when the book was released in 2017 it won many accolades. Raynor Wynn has now written three books  document...

The start of this new year marks a turbulent time in health care and brings particular uncertainty and challenges . The end of one year and the beginning of the next is a time when we often find ourselves looking back at what has happened and looking forward to what is to come.  Round ups of the year fill our television and our socials - photos, montages, lists and clips of what was best, most surprising or most shocking. These are reflections on the year and summarise the ups and downs that we all experience - twelve months is a long time. Silver balls (Anish Kapoor, Guggenheim Bilbao)  Reflecting back on something that has happened is a way of looking at what can be learned, of celebrating things that went well so they can hopefully be repeated and finding out if things could be done better. Many professions, such as nursing, rely on this type of exploration or introspection of events in order to continually develop and improve the care provided.  As part of revalidatio...