I encountered a physician—a cardiologist, no less—the other day who made me very, very happy. My patient had a syndrome I’d never heard of, which is rare with cardiac stuff, and he voluntarily sat down and explained it to me. With diagrams and thorough explanations. Then he towed me in to the patient’s room and
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I’m using the power of the blogo- and twitterspheres in hopes that nurses will come up with some good ideas or tried-and-true solutions. The problem: We are have shift-retention issues on night shift. It’s not necessarily staff retention (I continue to maintain that my hospital is A Good Place to Work™). People just move to
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I normally like the ER Stories blog, but I read this earlier and it pissed me off: I hate it when RN’s grab me to drop everything to go and see a patient in distress…..and then you go see the person and they are not sick. Whoever wrote it (no author was supplied) did backtrack
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Nurses Week = “for one week out of the whole entire year, we will recognize that an entire profession of people work their butts off wiping and kissing yours. The rest of the time…eh.”
I had a shift that, although ass-kicking, exemplifies yet again why “nursing is the hardest job you’ll ever love.” I drew the short straw (those being the only available straws on this particular shift) and ended up transforming truly thankless tasks with dire possibilities into decent experiences that helped people. For one thing, I had
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I got that title from this hilarious post and the comments from John Scalzi. I have been laughing for a solid week over that post. Why can’t I write stuff like that? It started with this tweet: A flatulent lemur-groper named @scottlynch78, WITH WHOM I HAVE NEVER BEFORE SPOKEN, is spreading lies ABOUT ME: http://t.co/Qj7NChXF
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As usual, the Internet is abuzz with the ridiculous UNFAIRNESS of poor Amanda Trujillo’s case (sorry for the all-caps, but I have ocular fatigue at this point because of excessive eye-rolling). I keep saying, “but wait! There must be more information. Also, she shouldn’t be acting this way because it’s going to bite her in
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I hate being sick. I know that in theory everyone hates being sick, but given my time in triage night after night I’d have to say that many people actually aspire to it. But I don’t. I have a crappy immune system, so I often don’t feel WELL. I get sniffles or aches and pains
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I always wondered what it was like around here after 7 pm. You people should be ashamed of yourselves. Way to go! — Doctor Jeff (@doctor_jeff) March 17, 2012
I’m discouraged lately. It’s partly from my own issues and partly from those of my colleagues, because misery does love company, and most people seem to be getting ass chewings pretty regularly. The issue is the one where people are more likely to complain when something negative happens than they are to mention the positive
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