Permission to Care for Ourselves.

In Creative Nursing 2022, Thinking Like a Nurse, we learned that Caring Science must be our foundation; our caring must match the needs and characteristics of those we serve; we need to know how to teach people to think like a nurse; and we must always be mindful that our caring takes place within a context: Family and Society. This first issue of Creative Nursing 2023 is being published open access on the web site of the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing at the University of Minnesota. The Center’s Director, Dr. Mary Jo Kreitzer, is our Guest Editor for this journal issue, and the Center is hosting the virtual launch event celebrating its publication. The Bakken Center is the ideal place for this journal issue to live and from which to go out into the world; our theme is Inspiring, Recruiting, and Retaining the Health-Care Workforce, and the healing that is needed as a part of this call to action is their calling.