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Okay. I really can’t stop thinking about this Bumbo recall. I’m not saying that I’ve tried ALL of these but I’m pretty sure that most of them are pretty inadvisable: 1. Do not strap it to the top of your car and use it as an open air car seat. 2. Do not strap it…

It seems like you hear about toy recalls every week now. Being a new mother I knew it was only a matter of time before one affected me. Here is Baby Ben last summer in his dangerous Bumbo Baby Seat, which has just been recalled: Apparently the Bumbo Seats are only dangerous if you use…

Ever since Baby Ben was born I’ve only worked about 4 shifts of actual nursing. That’s a little more than half a shift per month. That’s not what I had planned on. I was hoping to work part-time after Ben was born, but two weeks after he was born, along came NursingLink and offered me…

Move to San Francisco and you can supervise people shooting up drugs… City health officials took steps Thursday toward opening the nation’s first legal safe-injection room, where addicts could shoot up heroin, cocaine and other drugs under the supervision of nurses.

The other day I was looking for baby stuff on Craig’s List. I found a high chair and an activity center for $10 each. Too good to be true, I thought, but I had to check it out. I called the seller and asked for directions to her house, and headed out to see her…

Dr. Benjamin Brewer has produced a beautifully written article about nurses’ occupational injuries. Here’s an excerpt: As she reaches up to restart the pump, the glow from the sunrise illuminates a long, discolored scar that runs from her right wrist to the middle of her forearm. At a previous job in a nursing home, a…