Head Nurse

This is actually a day early, as my time off ends tomorrow. *sigh* My Mom will be seventy years old tomorrow, July 16th. Hooray! People who ...

or, That Didn't Work At All. Some time ago, right after I moved in here, I bought some great midcentury modern wallpaper to put in the k...

You know it's going to be a bad day when you walk in and somebody immediately calls a code. Except this one wasn't a code. It was, t...

It's been a while since I've done one of these. Therefore, without further ado, Shit That Works Like It's Supposed To: 1. Cline ...

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; ...

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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...