Head Nurse

Things not to do: Show up tanked on the day of surgery. No matter how nervous you are about having brain surgery, it's probably best not...

First, which one of you smart-alecks sent me the subscription to Glamour ? It was in my mailbox today. Ha, ha, ha. Very funny. (*golf clap*)...

Scene: The back yard, morning STRIDER: Dude. What *is* that thing? MAX, yawning: Lawnmower. STRIDER: What's it do? MAX: Shortens the gra...

No, not that one. I picked up a very sweet, very very very large dog yesterday from a very very very kind woman who fosters Pyrenees and oth...

So, my uncle. Nice man. Hunts and fishes, but eats what he kills. Raises good dogs and raised two good kids. The sort of grandfather you...

I post, I go to bed. I wake up earlier than God, and bang! Six comments in six hours. Strike a nerve, much? Some study I Googled last night ...

Normally, I never post immediately on coming home from work. I'm too frazzled, too scattered, and unable to complete a spoken sentence, ...

Or, what I do on my day off. Max is shedding. Among those of us with double-coated dogs, there's a less-polite, more-descriptive term: ...

And it didn't bother me a bit. I've grown inured to the yelling-at that some doctors, pharmacists, other nurses, house supervisors, ...

This post was going to be titled "When Morons Attack". But I ran a mile. Then I lifted weights. Then I stretched. And did some yog...

This is the time of year when it's hard to go to work. The weather is beautiful, the birds are singing (did you know male mockingbirds w...

Getting Better All The Time There's been an outbreak of what I'm convinced is norovirus at work. Norovirus is That Nasty Stomach Bug...

Driving your nurse crazy, in three hundred eighty four thousand, six hundred forty-two easy steps.* Adopt a lofty tone. Nobody here will rem...

There are plenty of books and articles out there about how to survive your first year or two as a nurse. Most of 'em are pretty useful; ...

It's here .

If you have to get one bizarre disease in your life, one that defies diagnosis and makes doctors scratch their heads, one that'd land yo...

Ever wish you had a really good excuse for not going to work? Ever wish you had a hellacious conversation starter for that cocktail party? ...

It snowed yesterday. March in central Texas is not a time when you'd expect snow, but sure enough, there it was. As I passed through the...

Dear Nursing Students Who Were On Our Floor Two Weeks Ago: I'm really sorry about your last rotation with us. If I'd known my cowork...