Category: Nursing Stories
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Technology Tools for the Bedside Nurse
Bedside nurses have one of the toughest jobs. So why do we get stuck with some of the crappiest technology? I recently had the opportunity to orient to a job on a med-surge floor. Having not worked in a hospital for the past 7 years, I was a little surprised at the lack of basic…
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A Quiet (Loud) Voice in Nurse Blogging
I’ve been inconsistent about following nurse blogs lately. But last week the domain name for NurseRiver was up for renewal and I asked myself, is it really worth the money for the 4-5 people who visit it each week? I was leaning towards no, but then I came across Amanda Anderson’s post, “A Nurses Day…
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Memories of a Nursing School Weblog
I wrote this over on my fargo blog about a weblog I made in nursing school in 2004. It was basically the precursor to this blog. I think my favorite part of the experience was this: “I came across another professor showing the site to her class. “And look at this – you can click…
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Back to the MICU, and back to Liverland
So this MICU shift was very difficult after all, and it wasn’t for the reasons that I suspected. I thought it would be the tasks that got me down, i.e. not enough time to get things done. Surprise, surprise, turns out it was the patients. Imagine a patient with End Stage Live Disease. She currently…
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Sick as Snot (or Not)
Last year I was talking to this doctor while I was still in nursing school and contemplating working in the MICU. “Those patients are sick as snot,” she said. I love that expression. It really paints a picture. I’m here to tell you, though, that it’s not entirely true. There is one night nurse in…