Peruse this story, if you will, and when you come back I will share my own story: Student nurses ‘left unsupervised with patients’ Okay, so this story about nursing students’ lack of supervision has surfaced in the UK recently. I was prepared to read about something shocking, like say a nursing student who was left…

I’ve always loved being a patient. Perhaps that’s why I became a nurse. (Of course, it’s easy for me to like being a patient when the only things I have ever been hospitalized for were a tonsilecomy and the birth of my son.) And I’ve always loved hospitals, the same way that I love airports.…

Someone recently asked me why I chose to specialize in critical care. I gave him my stock answer which is this: As a student, I got the impression that if you can be successful in critical care, then you can pretty much be successful at any kind of nursing. Later on I was pondering this…

Here’s my excuse: Born March 26th. 8 pounds even… Yes, we are so in love with him and his name is Benjamin. Remember Switching Teams? Well, I started out in the birthing center but after 24 hours of intense labor I was rushed to the hospital (in an underground tunnel nonetheless!) where I received “the…