Bonnie J-Lowe

:chuckle 'WHO WAS SHE?' Just a short time before I capped off my nursing career in the year 2000, I had the sweet pleasure of working with a fresh faced young graduate named Susan. Sue, as she was called, ...

i can't believe i ate that! 'i can't believe i did that!' in every type of employment there are days that getting a break or a bit of time to grab a snack or some meals are total impossibilities. this is especially...

Yes, nice but did an awful job on my sweater and that sixties style long hair!!Desperate state I was in after that!

Good stuff as the popular saying is these days!! Bonnie Lowe.

In our Class that started training in 1969 we had one little girl,young woman, but looked very young, who was constantly unsure of herself, constantly!! The time came to start doing bed baths (yuk) and poor Lisa was assigned to an ex-military man who...

My sister is a nurse in the far north-one of my sisters. She is known for tying the patients mouth shut in post mortem care, as they have no under taker, just permafrost. When she took the Retalast bandage off to show the body to the family the poor...

I would imagine most of the new classes of nurses have one or two memorable happenings that never, ever get put aside. It will go on as long as nursing does.The student that collected dentures that a nurse friend tells me about took them all and soak...

Do no Harm!

patients patience! patience patients patience patients!! i was in the process of adapting myself to a new department in a little rural hospital. of course, for the staff members who had been on the unit for so...

I often wonder why the majority of people think we have a memory for everything that happens and for every name that exists!! It is an odd way to think, but that is the way it is!!I am still getting that kind of question, on a daily basis.

I spent 32 years as a nurse and love my profession.I retired at 51 to pursue other interests, missed nursing terribly but now I write about it, and have three sisters to help through the bad days. So I am always a nurse. I am quick to anger, and that...

I decided to become a nurse at the age of 5 or 6 years.My story-"A CAREER CHOICE MADE EASY THE HARD WAY' can be found on http://www.tidespoint.com, click Nfld.stories, when the topics appear most of them are mine but scroll down to this title and tha...

Frankly No, I was relieved when my offspring did not want to do Nursing. I know the pitfalls, and the long hours, the miles one walks in a day, the shortage problem, and I did not want that for anyone of mine. I have 3 sisters who are nurses, and I l...

'A MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT' My lifes' work and passion was that of being a nurse. However even if passionate about something, you can make a major blunder that you remember forever and wish had never happened. In one particular hospital, ...

I just posted, about a hundred times, a little OR story and attached to that is a shot of the Random Passage movie set if you are interested. Shoal Harbour is a Canada Goose Sanctuary and therefore on my site at webshots you see pictures of geese on ...

Ask me the right question next time. :imbar 'SO ASK ME THE RIGHT QUESTION NEXT TIME' In order to avoid omissions and errors the procedure for admitting a patient to the Operating Room is often repetitious, tedious and annoying to t...

This is soooooo embarrassing.I am soooooo glad I have a good photo to redeem myself with.

Yes, dear baseline, I imagine you did. It is there about twenty times!!*lol* Strange gremlins on this site I tell ya,just must be the shadows of nurses past!!hahahahahaha

If the message is too long and I am editing it down, the only one that should appear is the one with the proper number of characters in it, or at least that is the way it usually works for any submissions I make else where. On this site, the whole bl...

The highway to Terra Nova National Park is the Trans Canada Highway and runs right through our town practically. The park is beautiful but moose on the roads are a big problem right now,and it is best not to drive at night or one might end up in an E...

Random Island is a thirty mile long Island in Trinity Bay.The book Random passage was based on life in Newfoundland for the early settlers. Just down the Bonavista peninsula there is a little town called Old Bonaventure, the Random Island Movie set i...

Medhunters is a lovely glosssy magazine, , and it has a website which is as follows: http://www.medhuntersmagazine.com, it publishes four times a year. They profiled the medical team that cares for the people doing the Survivor series last Winter 200...

:chuckle 'HOW MUCH COLD DO YOU WANT?' Bonnie Jarvis-Lowe The air outside the hospital was frigid, the doctors' coming and going through the large sliding Emergency Room Door let a blast of...

:) Shoal Harbour is a little community tucked up in the bottom of Trinity Bay, protected by a large island called Random Island. It is a beautiful little place, we built a retirement home here and I think it is a dream come true after all our years o...