Head Nurse

Little did she know I'd already found my spirit animal.

I go back to work tomorrow after ten days off. Why, you ask, did I take ten days off in the middle of what is decidedly not vacation season?...

Back in nursing school, I had an instructor. Everybody has one of those instructors--the ones whose classes make you yearn for the sweet re...

If you're an instructor teaching nurses, please remember that we do "see one/do one/teach one." All you have to do is tell us ...

(Actually, all I wanted was an excuse to use this gif. But it's pretty close.)

Starting Friday night, I turned my stomach inside-out every hour or two for twenty-eight hours.  It SUCKED. Somehow I've managed to ...

http://justsaynotonursing.wordpress.com  It's a list of thirty-six reasons nobody should go into nursing. The author is a woman w...

At this point, it doesn't matter whether it's a mismatch between this year's flu shot and this year's virus, or a secret gov...

If you have a patient who's been a heavy drinker and heavy smoker (like five 40-ouncers and a couple packs a day) since their teens, and...

That's the way things have been around here, lately. Every couple of years I kind of brown-out--not burn out--on work, and blogging, and...

It was shaping up to be a pretty good day. I got up a little early, packed my lunch, put the dog outside, left for work on time, and made it...

Three years ago at this time I was lying on the couch, watching St. Elmo's Fire with Friend Pens The Lotion Slut, feeling rather giddy ...

This week was long. People, I tell you: wearing leads for seven hours a day, five days a week, will wear. you. the fuck. out. Let me back ...

This morning I stepped through the bathroom floor. Yes, that bathroom floor. The one an ex-boyfriend of mine and I spent six weeks working...

A few folks have asked for updates on our Fantastic Integrated Computer System and about the woman who went to the non-accredited nursing sc...

Dr. Ali and I were talking about our recent (constant) staffing problems last night. I said I couldn't figure out why a unit with patien...

I did not learn to make these when I was growing up. As far as I can remember, my Sainted Mother, being more or less a Yankee, never fried a...

Actually, he rolled in. On a stretcher. After a TIA. Transported by EMS from the airport. And it was, sadly, no joke. There are surgeons n...