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Monthly Archives July 2008
Hopkins, Episode 4
Just watched Hopkins, episode 4 and let me tell you, there is not a dry eye in the house. That little Peyton reminded me of my Ben. I’ve always felt that it takes very special people to work in pediatrics, and I’m sure I’m not one of them. I don’t believe I could hold my [...]
Staff Nurse Jobs are Overrated
I may be giving up my sweet gig at the Recovery Room. They have told me that they won’t be needing any agency employees anymore. They tried very hard to convince me to come on as staff there, but I just don’t think I could do it. It would effectively cut my hourly rate in [...]
Nurse Carmela?
No. Nurse Jackie!
Edie Falco is set to play the title role in an up and coming new series on Showtime. Apparently nurse Jackie is a “complicated woman, working in an inner-city hospital.”
My only question is, does it take place in the 1940’s? She looks more like the lunch lady than any actual nurses I’ve [...]
The Right Place at the Right Time
Here’s a diagram of post-procedural patient flow that I made, because that’s just the kind of geeky nurse that I am:
As you can see, I recover radiology patients and cardiology patients.
So what do you call a radiology patient that has an acute MI in my recovery room?
DAMNED LUCKY!!!
I had written a long, finely crafted [...]
Is Hopkins Watching Hopkins?
I saw some of my MICU friends at their lunch table the other day. (We nurses are so clannish. The MICU nurses sit at their table and the recovery room nurses sit at their table, and the only way we would sit together is if we were out of tables.)
So I asked them, “Who’s been [...]
My Most Amazing Day as a Nurse
I thought I might tweet from work yesterday.
But then two things happened:
1. My email wasn’t working, so I couldn’t upload my pictures to twitpic.
2. I got busy. Really busy.
And then one of my patients had an acute MI, right. in. front. of. me. We saved his life by getting him to the cath lab [...]
In Case of Emergency
Both Trauma Queen and ImpactEDnurse are blogging about ICE this week.
nursing.alltop.com is up!
Nursing.alltop.com has been launched over the weekend!
For those of you who are unsure about what this alltop thing is all about here’s an excerpt from their About page:
We help you explore your passions by collecting stories from “all the top” sites on the web. We’ve grouped these collections - “aggregations” - into individual Alltop sites [...]
Nurses and Creative Writing
I really am enamoured by the title of this book. Have you ever read anything by Elizabeth Berg? The thing that I find very interesting about her is that she was once a Registered Nurse.
Here’s a quote from her website:
Before I became a writer, I was a registered nurse for ten years, [...]
