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July 2, 2007 | Filed under: hello, nurse!, technology

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The BCH (Big City Hospital) where I work is a mixed bag in terms of technological advancement: way ahead of the times in some respects and way behind in others.

Oh, who am I kidding…we’re behind on everything. Way behind. Laughably behind.

Seriously, I work for morons.

May 8, 2007 | Filed under: hello, nurse!, country mouse

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This morning I went to feed the birds and got a furry surprise.

FYI: birds aren’t furry.

UPDATE 5/9: less than six hours after I shot this video, I opened the box to show the babies to a friend. Gone. Vanished into thin air like Keyser freakin’ Soze.

“…and poof. Just like that, he’s gone”

April 16, 2007 | Filed under: amigos, hello, nurse!, misadventures

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A funny thing happened this past weekend: we didn’t have any patients admitted on our tour. Quite literally the calm before the storm. No babies born. No one in labor. Just empty rooms. This doesn’t happen all that often, so when it does, we react the way any other normal adult professionals would if they were in our place. We hold raucous sing-alongs, careen down the hallways on anything with wheels and eat like crazy. Then there’s more singing, of course, some dancing and then some more hall-surfing. Wackiness ensues.

I gripe about my job a lot. I’ve said many times that “I love the work, but I hate the job” and that still holds true to an extent. The work is fascinating and–on a good day–rewarding as all heck, but the politics of nursing can really, really really get me down. Two things make it bearable: those glimmers of good days where I feel like I’m truly helping my patients, and the strong, funny and goofy women I work with. There’s a handful of them in this video, but there are many more. Sure, we have our bad apples like anyplace else, but most of them are sweet and funny and intelligent and kind and caring…and some sing a mean baritone, to boot.

January 1, 2007 | Filed under: get meta with me!, hello, nurse!

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When will the computer issues cease? I do not know. But my recently rebuilt Powerbook is NOT behaving. Complicated hi-tech activities such as cutting & pasting seem to be difficult for the poor little thing. Crashes every day. I’m stumped. But 2007 is going to be a booming videoblogging year for me, dammit, and this computer had better start doing its damn job pronto.(it just froze again…I think the silver bastard reads my every thought)

October 27, 2006 | Filed under: hello, nurse!

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I’ve been absent. I needed some grieve-time. Thanks so much for all the warm wishes and kind condolences–they did not go unnoticed, although they may have gone unanswered.I’m back now. Feeling a little more together and less weepyshakey. I feel more like myself, but still a little “off”. I have been working a great deal to save $$ for the house that we’re supposedly purchasing–we’ve been burned before so I won’t believe it until someone hands us the keys. And even then I may not believe it until our first propane bill. Perhaps we can forgo paying for heat if we just set up a yurt in the yard. Have I mentioned the yard? Anyways, the extra work is a nice distraction. Being on vacation is even nicer. 12 hospital-free days. Ahhh…some peace.

The underlying story of this video will have little meaning to non-L&D-nurse-types, so I won’t get into it (Dawn, you just wouldn’t believe me if I told you…or perhaps you would) but suffice it to say that it shouldn’t have happened.

Backround Beeping provided by :
GE / Corometrics Fetal Monitor Model 118
Philips/HP Viridia CMS M1176A or something that looks a heck of a lot like it.