Head Nurse

Okay, so more randomness.... I just watched "House" and "3 Lbs.". Watching Stanley Tucci operating on a basilar artery ...

Thanks to the holidays, I've not been at work much the last week or so. Our census is low enough that us full-timers get waved off for a...

I need to know if anybody else does this: When I go to a restaurant, which I do fairly often, being possessed of both plenty of folding mone...

Say what you will about Ginny, our chaplain: for being a Godly woman, she has the worst sense of timing in the world. It had been an officia...

One thing I have to say to all you back-aching nurses out there, you with plantar fasciitis and aching necks and the whole nine yards: Hire ...

Over at Life in the NHS.

Anybody who's worked in a hospital in any capacity can tell you that the nutjobs come out right before the holidays. Not *during* the ho...

1. If you tell a resident that you'll take care of bowel management for them, not only will he or she sign anything you write, s/he'...

I had a fast-food salad last night. I've spent the last five hours being very sick. I'm not taking the CNRN today, obviously. Damn.

I'm taking a moment during one of the commercial breaks during "Grey's Anatomy". I watched it last week a little goofy, wi...

An ode to my fucking cat, Evinrude the Neurologically Deranged: Why do you pee on the rug? My house has been filled with your fug. You don...

I'm sitting here repeating quietly and happily, 'First female Speaker of the House...first female Speaker of the House...first femal...

I am looking for a pen. It is, I think, a Pilot G7 with black gel ink and a medium point. It is the pen I use to balance my checkbook. Witho...

I don't know how I missed Retrospectacle , a blog by a third-year PhD candidate in neuroscience. And, of course, the weekly Change of Sh...

...and asked one of the patient care techs if "I'm too sexy for this party" was a valid reason for calling in, or if "I...

It's for Condoms4Life, a group affiliated with Catholics for a Free Choice. The group's purpose is to get Benedict XVI to overturn t...

O God, who hast consecrated the state of Matrimony to such an excellent mystery...Look mercifully upon these thy servants. from "The f...

Let's review the bidding: T-minus some-odd days and counting The Beloved Sister, aka The Bride, has her dress. She has her crinoline and...

I watched the PBS special on the Freedom Riders and CORE and the SNCC tonight, the one about the downtown Nashville boycott and the nationwi...

...bastards.