Head Nurse

What on earth are you doing here? Go drink some eggnog, or something. Best wishes for a peaceful and happy Christmas.

I had a conversation about Advancing The Profession two days ago with a friend and colleague at work. Advancing The Profession is, for those...

Bidness Whew. I got a number of new links up. My original idea was to parcel them all out nicely so that Gentle Readers would have some ...

And will do it on Wednesday or Thursday, I promise.

A coworker's brother was shot halfway to hell in Fallujah today. (Yesterday? I don't know the time difference.) His squad was mar...

From Correspondent Tim, somewhere out there in the Worldwideinternetwebland, comes this very funny list of do's and don'ts for patie...

I love this woman. She writes and thinks the way I want to. Mouse Words

The tree is up, the frost is on the goose, the pumpkin is getting fat. Or something like that. The tree (a nice Fraser fir) is indeed up...

I am finished wrapping Christmas presents. That is, I'm done wrapping the ones I have to mail to my family. I'm not done wrapping th...

Courtesy of Geena .

The occasional Rock/Suck list returns. Rock: 1. Hamilton-Beach's version of an electric grilling machine. I just made no-added-f...

Truly kickass pasta salad Normally I hate pasta salad. I don't hate this one. Warning: it will make all vampires in your neighborhoo...

A couple of folks have mentioned that my blog isn't the Laff Riot lately that they're accustomed to. I therefore present... Tips ...

I've been corresponding off-and-on with a nursing student in Arizona named John. He's married with kids and works full-time in addit...

We were discussing (not on my regular floor) the Hemicorporectomy Guy yesterday. One of the nurses asked if he had a family and kids and gra...

There is a man, currently on a different floor of the hospital, who will be coming to us after his next surgery. His previous surgeries have...

Employee reviews were yesterday. Everyone on the floor was rated a 3 on a scale of 1 to 5, three being "meets expectations". Ones ...

Grump, grump, grump. There's nothing like being awakened three times during the night by someone else's child, then treated to t...

Drink with a fireman. Especially a fireman who's just gotten off his 24 hours. An English fireman (that is, an Englishman who's ...

This gentleman is the reason I'm a liberal. "Comfort women." Nice. Just...well, I'll be honest with you. I understand ...