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The phrases junior nurses and most staff do not care to hear from senior nurses…
…or the negativity they can spew…. “You wouldn’t know what to look for in that type of patient assessment anyways…” How do you know I don’t know what to assess for? Are you the textbook I… more →
Those Emergency Blues
The phrases junior nurses and most staff do not care to hear from senior nurses...
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wrote 11 months ago: …or the negativity they can spew…. “You wouldn’t know what to look for in that type of p … more →
A Nurse Contemplates Leaving the Profession [Updated]
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wrote 12 months ago: Dinner last night with an old friend who toils in the mines of Labour and Delivery. She has worked t … more →
The phrases junior nurses and most staff do not care to hear from senior nurses...
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wrote 1 year ago: … and other examples of nurses eating their young… A few statements I’ve heard in … more →
Breastfeeding Makes Sane People Crazy
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wrote 1 year ago: Why does any discussion of breastfeeding makes people a little insane? I don’t exclude myself: … more →
Arizona is Where Educating Patients is Bad, Bad, Bad: An Amanda Trujillo Update
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wrote 1 year ago: Just a few words about Amanda Trujillo. Jennifer Olin at RNCentral.com has detailed at the latest t … more →
Scripting Nurses is Bad for Patient Care
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wrote 1 year ago: This might be a new low in nursing management. Instead of actually providing caring, empathy and com … more →
Nursing Makes Nurses Less Empathetic
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wrote 1 year ago: Irony alert! The best way to decrease empathy in nurses, apparently, is to actually practice nursing … more →
Nurses are Like Howler Monkeys, Poo and All
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wrote 1 year ago: When I was a young, inexperienced nurse, I quickly learned one lesson: the cliché that Emergency nur … more →
What the Amanda Trujillo Case Tells Me About Nurses Behaving Badly
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wrote 1 year ago: Amanda Trujillo can take cold comfort that her situation is not unique. In the two years and odd mon … more →
A Small Rant from Your Friendly X-ray Tech
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wrote 1 year ago: A note sent to me from my favourite MRT (Medical Radiation Technologist). A reminder too, that nurse … more →
Karma Sweet Karma
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wrote 1 year ago: The latest instalment of Nurses Behaving Badly featured the night charge and the day charge (i.e. me … more →
What Nursing Leadership Doesn't Look Like
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wrote 1 year ago: A small, belated Christmas tale on how not to manage an emergency department. But first a few prelim … more →
Under Construction
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wrote 1 year ago: Meaning me, of course. I worked a (rare) Night 12 a few days ago. It was the usual dog’s break … more →
Death to PowerPoint and Other Notions
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wrote 1 year ago: Back again.Yeah, I’ve been away for a while, for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do wi … more →
On Allegations of Patient Abuse at St. Joseph's
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wrote 1 year ago: This story concerning alleged abuse of a senior at St. Joseph’s Health Care Centre (and yes, I … more →
In Which TorontoEmerg Discourses on Some Aspects of Human Nature
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wrote 1 year ago: It’s probably more than little trite to say the Emergency Department is a microcosm or laborat … more →
A Letter to a Younger Colleague
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wrote 1 year ago: Dear Colleague You are fairly new to our Emergency Department, you have done your Emergency Nursing … more →
Shi(f)t Work
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wrote 1 year ago: Wanderer over at Lost on the Floor makes a point: My manager remarked to me that night-shifters tend … more →
So When Does This Become a Crisis?
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wrote 1 year ago: I walked into the Emergency Department one hot morning a couple of weeks ago and found every last st … more →
