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On nurse grabbing and surviving those belly laugh days.

January 3, 2020 / Growing Nurse Debi / Leave a comment

img_5279One thing I love about nursing is the autonomy. Although we obviously have to work within certain Continue reading →

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On entertaining the troops and those miserable nurses in the waiting room.

May 10, 2019May 10, 2019 / Growing Nurse Debi / 3 Comments

20150817_071112-e1499713571330.jpgAfter spending the last few years working in the hospital, I’ve come to realize just  Continue reading →

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When it’s Nurses’ Week and you have something important to say.

May 6, 2019May 15, 2020 / Growing Nurse Debi / 3 Comments
thankful to be a nurse.

I was just about to begin my shift one morning when it happened. A weary-eyed night-shift friend of mine came up to me and said, “Debi, I need you to go home tonight and write something that’ll make me want to come back and do this again.”

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When this morning we’re different.

April 17, 2019July 23, 2021 / Growing Nurse Debi / 1 Comment

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I’m watching and listening as God makes a morning. I wish you could Continue reading →

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When they just want you to know they’re still here.

April 9, 2019April 9, 2019 / Growing Nurse Debi / 2 Comments

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She told me she doesn’t remember the day we met. Honestly, I don’t see how she could, she had been so sick when I had admitted her the week before. I had been floated to the PCU that day, Continue reading →

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On the interrupted lunch of a nurse.

January 4, 2019January 4, 2019 / Growing Nurse Debi / 6 Comments

thumbnail_growingnursedebiFBheader-cranberrycopyAs a nurse on a fast-paced telemetry unit, each and every shift is a blur of call lights, monitors, meds, rounding doctors, ringing phones, and endless beeps. There are ECGs to read, Continue reading →

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On getting all mixed up.

November 5, 2017November 5, 2017 / Growing Nurse Debi / 2 Comments

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I may work as a nurse but, in my “real life”, I’m a long-time Master Gardener who loves playing in the dirt.  Continue reading →

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On early morning carving.

October 27, 2017October 27, 2017 / Growing Nurse Debi / 4 Comments

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Wow. The quiet is so still this morning. It’s so calming. So peaceful. I need this. I really need this. We ALL need this. Continue reading →

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When a tired nurse stares up that ramp.

October 9, 2017September 13, 2018 / Growing Nurse Debi / 1 Comment

rscn02551239901867.jpgIn order to get to my unit from the hospital’s front lobby, you have to ride the elevator to the 5th floor, and then walk up a series of ramps before ultimately reaching the 6th floor telemetry unit. My home, sweet work home. Continue reading →

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On traffic and the many reds of red.

October 2, 2017October 6, 2017 / Growing Nurse Debi / 2 Comments

20171002_1527311071730051.jpgA while back I was stuck in a typical Orlando traffic nightmare and, as I sat there, my mind began to draw a mental parallel Continue reading →

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