Head Nurse

For the first time in five years, I got recalled the other night. We'd had ten inches of rain in about four hours, atop already-saturate...

Just an FYI: Blogger is losing comments, or not publishing the ones I approve, and occasionally the blog just disappears. There's no bug...

It wasn't a cold. It was bronchitis. The bacterial sort, rather than the viral sort. The cold I had led to a bacterial superinfection th...

It's the first anniversary of Change of Shift! Here .

It all started with a zit. It was a typical zit, close to his hairline. You know the sort: it grows and grows and gets painful, and finally ...

Gracious, colds take a long time to get over. My two remaining brain cells are huddled in the back of my skull, wrapped in blankets, drinkin...

I am coming down with another bedamned cold. My right ear has been clogged for three weeks now; Sudafed offers temporary relief. Today, when...

This has been one of those weeks in which you could look at the glass half-full or half-empty. Or half-empty or half-empty, unless it was fi...

So I have to move this summer. I have a choice: house or apartment? House comes with the possibility of a big, happy dog, like a Cane Corso ...

Why is it that the neurology residents, after ordering twelve tubes of blood drawn on one patient (yes, literally twelve tubes) for various ...

Here . Be sure to check the video "(I'm bringing) Patients Back". Hee!

It's time again for non-professional product reviews. If you schlubs want me to review your book or your product or your salted pistachi...

Jo hates it when a kit she puts together for a lumbar drain just...disappears, five minutes before the drain is due to be put in. Jo hates ...

Change of shift is up here . I'm an asshole and missed it last week. Sorry, Kim. Goodness. I'm tired. Something about hundred-mile-a...

1. All together now: If you have to jack with it, it's wrong . 2. The amount of time it takes a patient to announce "I'm not a ...

It's so fine; it's sunshine. It's the word "no." A meditation on saying "no." I had one of Those patients to...

That's a joke, people. John (for whom I have immense respect and liking) has a post up on "lateral violence", aka "nurse...

It does not impress me if a nurse routinely complains at 1430 that she hasn't had a chance to open her charts. It makes me wonder where ...

I have to, *have* to address this. New nurses are ignorant. So are old nurses who are faced with something they've never dealt with befo...