• Should Nurses Pay for Parking?

    As some of you may have noticed, I have been closely monitoring all nursing and healthcare related news for my other blog, orientedX3.com One of the things I have noticed is that there is an overwhelming majority of nursing related news articles coming from outside the US. Many of these come from the UK. I’ve…

  • Okay, so I was wrong about Facebook…

    There is QUITE a lot more to it than pictures of people drinking out of plastic cups. I spent quite a lot of time (too much time, actually) on Facebook searching for nursing groups and look what I found: Behind Every Doctor… is a skilled intelligent nurse that saves their ass – 13,976 members You…

  • 9 Weeks Old

    Honest to goodness quote from the pediatrician today: “You might have to trim his hair in the back if you don’t want him to have a comb over.”

  • The 2 Faces of Facebook

    Any other nurse bloggers out there on Facebook? I was recently urged to create a Facebook profile by the CEO of the new company I’m working for. I hadn’t done so previously; I’d always thought of Facebook as the vehicle for teens and twentysomethings to keep in touch and share photos of themselves drinking out…

  • Corzine’s Recovery: Where Were the Nurses?

    The Center for Nursing Advocacy is finding fault with the New York Times’ coverage of Corzine’s recovery. Here’s the New York Times Article: (Here’s a tip: If you want to read an older article from NYT or WSJ but it requires a paid subscription, google the entire title of the article in quotes and you…

  • Nursing Students Rock the the US.gov

    “We’re Bringing Nursing Back,” the video produced by Binghamton University Decker School of Nursing students and made popular on YouTube has now made its way to a government site… www.careervoyages.gov is a joint effort by the department of education and the department of labor to help people investigate career opportunities. If you click to the…