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When one of the patients came in for his appointment I went downstairs to greet him and introduce myself. He smiled and hurriedly put out his "roll you're your own" cigarette by rubbing it aggressively on the pavement in the parking lot and placed th...

The evening shift usually stayed rather busy, and often went by quickly. Then would come the night shift. Night shifts were often slow, unless a patient.. Or two... Decided to wake up and act out because we didn't have any apples, or we couldn't let ...

At that time I was working in a small pediatric unit which unfortunately often pulled at the last vestige of a heart string that I dared be aware of. He lay in his bed, both legs broken by an abusive adult. He loved to have stories read to him. He lo...

In duty, there was pressure from a teacher, ward staff, in charge, patient and doctor. We have to manage the entire thing at once. A kind of fear always stocked with us. Whether anyone scolded us? Someone is asking us something or someone come and ab...

Early one morning I received notification that Dr. So&So was sending a patient, a female to our unit and that the charge nurse had assigned a room for her. The only other information I got was that the woman was a "direct admit", which means that...

The Deformed ChickThis morning I was feeling a bit overwhelmed by something I haven't realized yet. I went to the kitchen to lock the door when my attention caught the little chicks that my dad hatched from an incubator. One of those chicks was defor...

Renee lies in bed all day; refusing to come out to play at being 'good' the way They say she should. Marg'ret likes to scream and shout - she really throws her weight about and everyone about the place dreams of pillows - and her face. Barry! Ah, Bar...

He was shaken to his core but he faced the surgery with remarkable equanimity and had the amputation knowing that he would have to learn how do things very differently from now on. He plunged gamely into his physical therapy even while still healing ...

I was double-checking equipment and medication. Everything had to be set up for the doctor to their specification. The doctor entered the room and asked me what nurse was going to assist. I told him that it would be me and that the charge nurse was g...

The evening shift started out like many others in the 1960s, overwhelming tasks and two of us to care for 18 orthopedic patients, mostly men, many in traction and confined to bed. But lo and behold two sweet and willing sixteen-year-old candy striper...

He appeared to be in agony. I asked him where he hurt. He shook his head no. I felt through the blankets and he seemed to be distended. His abdomen was very hard. He had an order for PRN cath so I returned to the nursing supply room and got a cath ki...

I was a second courser back then when I took up nursing. I didn't take any special shortened course or curriculum, so I was mixed with first coursers and some other second coursers. Why was I the smartest? I was the only second courser who was also a...

I sat down to read allnurses yesterday evening at about 6 pm. So, she arrived and we chit chatted all the way to the nursing home, having a good ole time. When we arrived the nurse was befuddled. She had no idea what would cause such copius amounts o...

Misadventure in a Maternity Hospital. There is probably no maternity hospital that is as busy as the one I went to during training. It's jam-packed with patients and it's like a newborn factory. Anybody who would want to have exposure to maternal and...

After rounding up a list of patients who needed catheters inserted from the staff nurses, our instructor found one elderly gentleman who willingly consented for a student nurse to place the catheter while the rest of the classmates watched. Before he...

Many of the lessons to be learned really take time, but then there are simple lessons, as well. To me, these are the ones that seem to stand out. Let me tell you about one of the simple lessons I learned along the way! On my way in for my first day o...

My story started at the parking lot of one fast-food chain... One hot day, my friend and I went to the town to look for an opportunity that may give us chance to work as Nurse outside the country. The dilemma that every nurse faced... working so hard...

The cockroaches moved with us from the decrepit original hospital to the brand new building. I'd never seen a cockroach before moving to the big city, and my mother raised me to believe that the presence of a roach was an admission of bad housekeepin...

I chose to work as an agency nurse to increase the range of my experience. I was able to work at a number of large metropolitan hospitals. As I lived regionally I would work night duty or PM duty to make traveling easier. Working as an agency nurse n...

I am currently working on an infant unit, and my experience there thus far has been wonderful. On this particular occasion, I began the day with some adorable little patients. All of the infants on this unit have touched my heart, and I see beauty in...

When i was in high school, I was always running into oldsters who would say "Ruby Vee? you're George's daughter, aren't you? I went to high school with your great grandfather and I remember him telling about the time he . . . . My grandfather was mor...

Well, this one gentleman with the post open heart was feeling nauseated and in pain as well and I medicated him but the nausea was not getting better. Doc on call "read resident" says do a whole cardiac profile on him so we did... drew some labs and ...

A small cot was placed next to her bed, so I could sleep beside her. In the middle of the night, my mother's small voice called for me to get the nurses (no call button then), the foul smell invaded the room and it hit me hard enough to wake me out o...

One day an order came down from the inpatient unit for an EEG on a 40-something-year-old man. I got my supplies and machine and headed upstairs as the patient's nurse told me that it should be done portable. I arrived at the room to find a pleasant, ...

Looking back, I think the reason for this was that growing up in a big family, and I being the 7th, with all my other siblings older and their ages closer to each other, made me turn to express myself on paper. I thought a writer I will be in the fut...