by Theresa Drass | Jul 14, 2024 | Community, Healing, honesty, Mental Health, Peace, Unity
āWe can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.ā ā Albert Einstein This writing started as a cathartic ānote to [a very disheartened] selfā. š¤āļø āIn the end, the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how...
by Theresa Drass | May 20, 2024 | Baseball, Community, Elmo, Mental Health, Motivation
It’s a Motivational Monday in May, Mental Health Month, and what better inspiration than the story of Philadelphia Phillies’ Alec Bohm? Remember 2022? A young Bohm, frustrated by a rough game with three errors, muttered a now-infamous phrase: “I...
by Theresa Drass | Jan 22, 2024 | Consultant, healthcare, Legal Nurse Consultant, Mental Health, Motivation
On this Motivational Monday, I referenced myself for inspiration and searched āmotivationā in my old MSN docs: Motivation is the power within a person that drives their conduct (Marquis & Huston, 2009). Nurses are motivated by attitudes and actions that progress...
by Theresa Drass | Dec 13, 2023 | Behavioral Health, children, Consultant, Mental Health, Suicide Prevention
š° As I discuss in my article, “Kindness, Equity, and the Mental Health Crisis: The View from this Nurseās Window” (https://drassassociates.com/kindness-equity-and-the-mental-health-crisis-the-view-from-this-nurses-window/), the mental health challenges...
by Theresa Drass | Oct 29, 2023 | Behavioral Health, Content creation, Legal Nurse Consultant, Matthew Perry, Men's Health, Mental Health, Recovery Oriented Care, Work Life Balance
In the spring/ summer of 2022, I had just left my last hospital administration job of ten years, reeling from the continuing effects of COVID, the turbulence of internal changes at the facility, and now struggling with figuring out next steps at this point in my life....
by Theresa Drass | Oct 27, 2023 | Behavioral Health, CMS regulations, Content creation, healthcare, justice system, Lawsuits, Legal Nurse Consultant, Mental Health
In addition to #suicidality, two of the most potentially dangerous situations -physically and emotionally- for patients receiving behavioral medicine and addiction recovery services are: 1)unanticipated discharges from treatment, e.g. #AMA/ Administrative Discharges,...
