Head Nurse

Our network reaches around the world. It is above the law, beyond the government, and untouchable by the church. No power in the 'Verse ...

It's soaking in three-percent peroxide as we speak. I spent the early morning taking it out of its enzyme bath, scraping bristles and ...

I am rarely in a mood to authentically injure somebody. Yesterday was different. We've had staffing changes and new responsibilities...

It's been. . .a month? Six weeks? Seven weeks? God, who knows. All I know these days is getting up in the dark, working under artifici...

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...