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I used to work at a theme park, and the 2 weeks around spring break were unofficially known as "marathon" because we went from weekends only to daily operation. But since most of the high schoolers only have one week off, and a lot of summer people h...
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H. was scheduled for the removal of a colon polyp after a colonoscopy failed to reach the tissue for biopsy. My husband was a very obese diabetic, who had recovered from a Wallenberg Stroke four years before with only a residual weakness in his balan...
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I swear, my nursing career must have more lives than a cat. I knew it was over when I had a nervous breakdown and walked away from the hospital I'd worked in, off and on, for five years. I knew it was over when I aggravated an old knee injury and had...
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Countdown until graduation! I still can't believe I'm writing that. One more month and I'll graduate with my BSN. I remember walking into my first class, health assessment with disbelief and shock at the fast-paced accelerated program. When I started...
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I stare at the four LED panels in front of me, each displaying cases for every OR, listed by room. I groan inwardly, bracing myself for a busy day. "Canes, you ready?" asks the Medical Director. Every morning, the Medical Director and the Anesthesia ...
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I became a single parent in 1989 I finally left an abusive marriage, I was now going to move on with my life and follow my dreams. I always wanted to be a nurse as we often referred to ourselves in 1989, we were also called RGN's in the UK which mean...
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No....this is not an early New Year's story filled with resolutions. Today is my birthday and I have been thinking back over events of this past year. Birthdays are good times to celebrate....not just with cake and presents, but celebrate life itself...
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I have battle going on inside my head. Two conflicting ideas engaged in a tug-of-war that has left me feeling depleted and angry and just...tired. You see, I am a nurse. I went into nursing because I love science and I love the human body and all its...
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You were one of my very first patient assignments I had fresh out of nursing school about two years ago. You taught me that behind the assignment was a person. With you I learned my first lessons in humility and compassion. As a stressed out new grad...
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This question came up recently when my mother went in for open heart surgery, "Why not be a doctor? Are you happy just being a nurse?" In the course of my mother's surgery, we approached the doctors and nurses on the team with questions, alternatives...
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Nurses struggle to know whether their work is just a job or a calling. We go to work and do a job, but there is so much more to it. Can it be just a job? Days filled with tasks, even kind words, and that's the end? When I start to get bored of the jo...
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Today is just like any other ordinary day of my life. The alarm clock didn't have to bother screaming loudly as I've been awake way before it was supposed to do its job. Despite the cozy warmth of the blanket and an enticing bed weather, I have to ge...
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I love my job! I guess I am one of the lucky ones in nursing these days but I actually feel I make a difference. Since February I am no longer clinically based but I am an Educator for a big company who treats me well. I travel a lot and that could b...
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On January 1, 2016, I drove home after my 13-hour shift as a nurse in a pediatric hospital. I noticed his car was gone. As I entered the house, my daughters rushed forward and embraced me. One took my lunch bag, and the other took my purse. "He's gon...
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I am a RN working that time on a neurological unit for rehabilitation in a foreign country. Patients have been transmitted from hospitals frequently. Many of them came from countries all over the world to receive treatment; a lot of them called it th...
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Imagine being seated on a comfortable sofa in a warm, well-appointed office designed to make you feel at home, fidgeting nervously and struggling to find a neutral position as the man across the table from you delivers his findings in a kind, but reg...
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Lets be honest here. Nurses love to whinge. And to be fair, we do have a lot to whinge about. Pay, for example. It took me four years of university to gain a nursing degree. In that same time I could have qualified in law, architecture or pharmacy, a...
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Patients create a lasting memory for numerous reasons. There are the very critical patients who may not have a positive outcome but you know you learned some valuable lessons from; there are the funny patients who always make you laugh either appropr...
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When I was a young girl growing up in America's Mid West, my mother loved nursing and thought that her daughter should follow in her footsteps. It was her dream that helping people was a great profession and she wanted me to become a nurse when I gre...
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It is better to give then to receive...those classic words of wisdom ring especially true for those who chose nursing as their profession. Many of the "gifts" of nursing, for me, have actually been moments in time, memories about patients and feeling...
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a great opportunity for an internship to become an OR nurse had been offered to me, but after this diagnosis, everything was put on hold. A disease that affects 1 in 8 with today's statistics, is a very scary thing.
This article is to "lighten t...
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A male patient, age 66, had been admitted to the hospital for heart failure and sepsis. He had been in the hospital for over a month and had recent CABG2 when I came to the Critical Care Unit clinical day for my first experience as a senior nursing s...
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Your story isn't unlike many others I've read, carefully reading the printed handwriting on your flow sheet as the night shift nurse gives me a detailed list of your injuries. You're young, I don't need to see your birth date to know that as I glance...
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What happens when we have to find a new dream? When we came to a fork in the road; chose our path; ran towards our destiny and hit a dead end? Nursing is career of passion and a commitment not only to ourselves but to those future faces waiting with ...
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It was there. Just there. But I still could not reach. Humidity laden air choked with the smell of smoldering grass, prickled razor sharp from the relentless Summer drought, dimly aware of the sounds of a woman sobbing some distance away, the dampene...
