As some of you may know, the Bulgarian nurses returned safely home on July 24th after 9 long years of imprisonment and torture in Libya. The Center for Nursing Advocacy has been covering this story from the beginning and they are to be commended for that. However, I read something on their site the other…

Dear Patient: I am so sorry that I broke your ribs last night. I really wish I hadn’t. You see, someone made a decision on your behalf that if you stop breathing, we won’t put you on a ventilator, but we will do chest compressions if you don’t have a pulse. The problem is that…

The other night was my first night shift in a long time. After fighting the ball game traffic and arriving on the unit at exactly 3 minutes until 7PM, I headed to the report room. I heard someone yelling down the hall. “Can I get a cigarette?” “Yo, Babydoll. You got a cigarette?” “Sorry, dude,…

It’s official. I’ve left my position at NursingLink. Let’s just say my philosophy and the company’s philosophy were never really aligned. Or to put in nursing terms, I just wasn’t on board with the “plan of care.” What was the deciding factor that made me resign? My boss actually told me that he “detected an…

Seen in the Guardian, a Prince Edward Island local newspaper: As I read this I had a premonition of “Bob Dole from PEI.” I envisioned this short fat sweaty guy with clammy hands and he’s laughing like a hyena as he types his comment in. His hands are slippery because the sweat on his forehead…

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