Head Nurse

It was not an easy day. We were short-staffed, and I had a patient on palliative care, whose family needed my attention much more than the...

So we have this new thing at Sunnydale: the nurses from the neurocritical care unit charge for both the NCCU and an overflow surgical/med-su...

It is "welt," not "whelp." A welt is something you get on your skin. A whelp is a newborn puppy. If you tell me your pat...

Mom's birthday was last week, so I spent last week in Seattle with Beloved Mother, Sainted Father, Beloved Sister, and The Boyfiend. Oth...

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"What you need to do," the house supervisor said to me, "is learn to lower your expectations." "Fuck you," I r...

Knees: Why do knees have to bend the way they do, and why are they so out-there and unsupported by something stronger than ligaments? If you...

It's been a rough couple of weeks on the neurocritical care unit. Marcie left; she went to neurosurgery's clinic, to cat-herd all ...

"She led off alone on the intro to 'When U Were Mine,' her guitar thin and high and lonely. Then the rest of the band swell...

This week I wanted to die, in a sustained and sincere manner, rather than return to work after my first shift back from vacation. Why? B...

The benefit of selling your soul and most of your waking hours to a corporation like Giganto Research and Healthcare, Inc. is that you, even...

Years ago, I wrote briefly about the experience of being a synesthete and how I discovered synesthesia. I had kinda always figured that eve...

1. Not answering phone calls from work or checking work email while I'm on vacation. Leave me voicemail if it's really important and...

I was wandering around HEB today (I hate shopping without an appetite; it leads to a weird larder) and saw GARGANTUAN BONES for sale. There ...

It's in a biohazard bag, don't worry. It's pinned to my wall, just above my desk, so that I can see it every single morning and ...

Doctor Sunshine, who has a reputation for badmouthing everyone and everything around him, strode out of a room and announced to the resident...

The best shifts I have come when I get to precept nursing students or new nurses. It doesn't happen very often, probably because I have ...

I walked in to the church and looked for people I knew. The first person I spotted was Mike, Jenna's husband, so I walked straight up to...

1. The look on an attending's face when the nursing staff in the NCCU actually knows something. We read our patients' charts before ...

If you were to come to Casa Del Doghair, those would be the directions you'd get. Every five years or so, Littleton's infrastructu...