Head Nurse

There was an ice storm. And Friend Abilene Rob and his lovely bride-to-be Alice moved closer (hooray!). And The Boyfiend started physical th...

I'm an ADN-prepared nurse. Those of you who've been here for a while know that I often refer to those two years (three, actually, co...

It's the classic nursing moment: after you've spent uncounted minutes putting a gorgeously neat, clean dressing on a wound, a doctor...

However, I have a roll recipe for your motherfuckers that you are gonna love. This is what I bring to every holiday gathering, and have br...

On Monday, my Sonicare toothbrush bit the dust. I'd been limping it along for months, and it finally coded and couldn't be revived. ...

Recently, the unit I work in won an award. It was one of those not-Press-Ganey awards; the kind of award that has to do with things that are...

Once in a very long while you get somebody under your hands who ought to have been let go months before. We had somebody like that the oth...

This is what we all should be worried about.

Thanks to the Virally-Knowledgable Minion who pointed out that I made an error by referring to Ebola as EBV. That is Epstein-Barr virus, not...

WARNING: THIS IS A RENOVATION, NON-NURSING POST. IF YOU DON'T LIKE HEARING ABOUT CONSTRUCTION OR DEMO, GO ELSEWHERE. Some of you longe...

I've decided it's not the heat here in Central Texas that bothers me; it's how long it lasts. I could easily handle a worse summ...

The interviewer asked, "What's making you want to leave your current job?" I'm tired of watching my coworkers coming in,...

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?...