Archive for the 'hello, nurse!' Category

November 20, 2007 | Filed under: NaVloPloMo 2007, hello, nurse!, misadventures

I made this ages ago during a dry spell at work, then didn’t post it because I got worried after a class I took on labor nursing and legal stuff. But I must press on. I have to post something. The power of NaVlaPoMo compels me.

Labor & Delivery is a funny unit-everything comes in waves. Follows distinct patterns. We’ll have a week or two that are utterly unmanageable with patients set-up in spare conference rooms and on stretchers in the hallway (particularly in September and October…those New Year’s babies), and then : poof! Nothing. The calm before the next storm. This was shot during one of those poof!Nothing shifts.

12 hours is a very long time to have nothing to do. Toward the end, you start getting loopy and desperate.

November 18, 2007 | Filed under: NaVloPloMo 2007, Grrr...arrgh., hello, nurse!

 Sorry. Still bitching. This too, shall pass.

Ever want to know what a nurse’s schedule is like? No? Well, too bad.

November 12, 2007 | Filed under: NaVloPloMo 2007, hello, nurse!

Here’s a little something I filmed at work Friday night. It does contain human innards, but really isn’t gross unless you are a complete and total weenis. Really.

October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Grrr...arrgh., hello, nurse!

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September 21, 2007 | Filed under: get meta with me!, hello, nurse!

Yesterday I attended a nursing conference where the focus was safe and effective charting techniques in OB nursing. I love these all-day seminars; I always learn a lot and they never fail to scare the crap out of me. Keeps me on my toes.

Blogging as a medical professional can be a tricky business. Whenever I write about work*, I tread carefully. Ethical issues abound: privacy, HIPAA, job safety. But until yesterday I never considered the legal ramifications. I should. So should all other medical bloggers, for that matter.

* I maintain a separate text blog that is reserved for my experiences as an RN. It is more anonymous than this one (as anonymous as one can be on the internet) and only a small cadre of bloggerfolk know that I am the author. I haven’t posted there in awhile, although I have written a ton.