The Underside of Nursing

Stairway Surfing Retired for six years and now I keep visiting the hospital as a patient. I sure didn't plan this latest episode but I h...

  In my recent hospital admission I shared the room with a completely disoriented patient who needed a Sitter. But "Sitters" need ...

  I don't really like writing about myself but this is a topic for our times; Microbiome.  It seems like every week I read about some ne...

  Crazy Foam They said over and over "Now, please don't forget, If you remember this thing We will be in your debt". And every...

  I had 3 different roommates over the course of 13 days. The first one had a serious head injury following an MVA. He was totally disorient...

  The poem is a retelling of "The Christmas Story" Happy Itis That's not exactly what it seems Itis, ambushed me, Three days a...

In 1999, I joined a nursing group at our University Medical center known as "Action Nurses". Essentially, this idea was to have a ...

  If you worked with me you might wonder "what in the heck is he eating at work?" I don't ever recall buying any cafeteria foo...

  I worked from January of 1978 until January of 2019 mostly in ICU settings as a Respiratory Therapist and then a Critical Care Nurse. I di...

  The demands of our job, the knowledge we must acquire drive us to achieve something known as "Critical Thinking". This is define...