September 2010
Reblog: Bitten, shot, spat on: Violence in... →
You would never go into the supermarket and say ‘the tomatoes aren’t good enough’ and punch the clerk and get away with it. That’s exactly that happens in the emergency departments all over…
Not a nightshifter forever →
I’m looking at a major lifestyle change and am extremely nervous about it. I’ve been a nightshifter for years and think of myself as “a night nurse.” Nurses know what I mean. The pros on…
Reblog: The future of nursing……..food for thought →
It is WE, the workforce, who I blame. WE who do not stand up as a group and say we’ve had enough. We who do not advocate to the public we serve that we need more nurses at the bedside and not…
Elements text editor for iDevices review →
I was going to write up a review on Elements [iTunes link] this afternoon, but then I saw that MacWorld just posted one. They covered most of the things I was going to cover. One area they…
Spidey sense →
There are better terms for it (such as “nursing intuition”), but I call it spidey sense because I just like to inject a little levity into my work day. Has it been researched? Has it been…
Love this word: presenteeism (coming to work when... →
via pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com
We ALL do this in the medical field. Everyone. All the nurses and docs I know stay home if we’re puking sick, have a crazy fever, or are otherwise…
Happy-TNCC flowers →
The BF rocks. I passed TNCC (Trauma Nursing Core Course) today, thus completing my ER nursing trifecta (PALS, ACLS, and TNCC). He withheld the brutality of the course from me beforehand…
Old post reposted: Disruptive behavior at work →
This issue (a post I wrote 2 years ago) is still salient and needs to be revisited often.
I wonder how many excellent nurses get fed up with childish, hateful behavior among their associates and…
Kindle app beats iBooks for reading on iPad →
I’ve been reading books on my iPad for a while now and want to write a little about what I’ve found regarding the iBooks vs Kindle apps on the iPad. This isn’t a new topic (in fact, it may…
Do things ever settle down for nurses? →
I’ve been at my new job for about a year now and I’ve been an RN for almost 2 years. (I know. I can’t believe it either. Seems like last week I started “Not Nurse Ratched” as a prenursing student.)…
Reblog: A dying patient is not a battlefield –... →
I understand why physicians find these conversations difficult, why it’s preferable to focus on the good we can possibly accomplish rather than the likely futility of the struggle.
But…
