“Such colorful personalities…” I laughed with Bethanie one day as we drove home from the clinic, bouncing along in the CNG. “Colorful for sure,” she answered ruefully. The people I…
Tomorrow it will be a week since I ventured out of doors, out of quarantine, into the new world that was waiting for me... It seems like longer, because I've…
I love being a Pediatrics nurse… I love tiny baby stethoscopes and stuffed animals and patients who smile when I give them stickers with Elsa… I love being creative and…
I’ve been thinking of writing about my first year of being a nurse for a couple months now, and I just haven’t had the energy or the inclination. I’ve been…
I see you there… You’re the bad mom. You’re the one that nurses talk about in hushed tones. You’re the one nursing students talk about with anger in the cafeteria.…
Today I choose to be happy… Yesterday was a day for choosing to be a nurse- yesterday I ran around doing my best to meet the needs of my patients,…
When I started working as a nurse, one of the scariest things for me was realizing that when my patient was having symptoms that were no longer manageable with nursing interventions, there was no easy option on a multiple choice test that you could select without second thought- that magic nursing school formula...