One 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.
After spending the last few years working in the hospital, I’ve come to realize just Continue reading
Sharing is just so incredibly beautiful ...
When it’s Nurses’ Week and you have something important to say.
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.”
Continue readingSharing is just so incredibly beautiful ...
When this morning we’re different.
I’m watching and listening as God makes a morning. I wish you could Continue reading
Sharing is just so incredibly beautiful ...
When they just want you to know they’re still here.
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
Sharing is just so incredibly beautiful ...
On the interrupted lunch of a nurse.
As 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
Sharing is just so incredibly beautiful ...
On getting all mixed up.
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
Sharing is just so incredibly beautiful ...
On early morning carving.
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
Sharing is just so incredibly beautiful ...
When a tired nurse stares up that ramp.
In 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
Sharing is just so incredibly beautiful ...
On traffic and the many reds of red.
A 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
