Head Nurse

Dammit. I almost typed "Change of Shirt" again. Okay, fine. Here's the latest Change of Shirt .

I suppose I could post about the last couple of days at work, but I really don't feel like it. See, I got really sick yesterday after my...

I really, really meant to do the seven by seven that other bloggers have tagged me with tonight. I swear I did. But I got distracted with ma...

...a memo describing an upcoming change in hospital policy gets you so angry that you send a snarky, venting email with scarcely a word unde...

Read this . As usual, I'm late on the boat, but I just spent an hour reading Dr. Sid. Can't wait to get back to him.

If you are a doctor, please, *please* do not use the nurses' computers when the doctors' computers are entirely unoccupied. And if y...

In case I should disappear for a while, it's not because I'm busy strangling hammer-wielding intruders or because I've fallen vi...

...that among nurses who watched a cumulative 4.5 hours of "Grey's Anatomy", 100% repeated, over and over and over during the ...

I got a request for a post about role confusion (that awful feeling that comes from being a new nurse), and it sounded like a good idea. The...

PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) -- A nurse returning from work discovered an intruder armed with a hammer in her home and strangled him with her bare ...

Thou Art With Us.

In most hospitals in the US, poop is the nurses' purview. Shit is our shingle. Bowel movements are our raison d'etre. It's an ug...

...and I'll be happy if I can ever stop typing that as "Change of Shirt". *sigh* Right here .

Firstly, because I am a huge noobnik, the link to the latest Change of Shift . I suck, I know. This is going up late. Secondly, Mike from Sc...

Tips for student nurses of all ages, drawn from my own limited experience: 1. Put aside inviolable time to study every damn day. Even weeken...

*strumming guitar* I woke up at one this morning And didn't know what to do My eyes were welded shut with This nasty yellow goo Oh, I...

This past week, I was at the fifty-seventh minute of the eleventh hour of my shift when a GN I hadn't met before approached me and intro...

Today I slept. It's been a long week. We've had a number of folks with undiagnosable whatevers--things that we either have to wait f...

Guys, I'm sorry. I know you do better for my patients overnight than I can during the day. Gerb, I appreciate your attempts to teach me ...

The chocolate cake for Thursday is made. For those interested, it's the recipe off the back of the Hershey's cocoa box, which even C...