Comfort Care Convos
Gah. These are rough. But they have to happen. Ideally, the doctor brings this up when they decide nothing else can be done. When you know this is about to happen, you should be in the room. It...
View ArticleWhen Patients Die
If this hasn’t happened in your young nursey career, it will at some point. Whether expected or not, patient deaths can be pretty rough on the nurse.. especially if that nurse has developed a...
View ArticleOur Nursing Reality – Part I
When I was writing my last post about MTV’s Scrubbing In, I started to think about my nursing career and if I had the opportunity to show the world what I do as a nurse, what moments I would want them...
View ArticleMy First Code Blue
To read about my first code blue, please check out my new ebook, Becoming Nursey. Click on the link in the navigation to purchase! In addition to reading about my first code blue, you can check out my...
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Insider Info: What Your Nurse Wants You to Know
Is mom getting admitted to the hospital frequently? Did your grandma just have a stroke and now your life is half-home and half-hospital? Many families experience this and they are more than willing...
View ArticleGuest Blog Post: A Wedding in Intensive Care
A few days ago, a Twitter bud of mine, @Terimedwards tweeted: Y’all. We had a wedding in the ICU so a man could see his grandson get married before he dies. #beautiful @NurseEyeRoll And this...
View ArticleSitting Down for Your Patient
I went to NTI in Denver, Colorado this last week. For those of you that don’t know, it’s an annual national conference for critical care nurses. And it’s awesome. I went to a lot of sessions. Some...
View ArticleSomething You’re Dying to Talk About
Being a critical care nurse, I’ve witnessed quite a few people pass away. I’ve assisted in taking people off of the ventilator to allow them to pass naturally. I’ve cared for patients that are...
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I Wish I Could Cry With You, But I Can’t
I just saw the doctor walk out of the room…the room of your husband on a ventilator, who after 12 days of no improvements, has had set back after set back. I talked to the doctor before he walked...
View ArticleThe Death of a Heart
I recently saw this video on YouTube and thought it was necessary to share. Nurslings, new grads, nurses new to telemetry.. check out this 1 minute video of a cardiac arrest:
View ArticleYou’re a Life Saver.. Literally
I don’t know if any of you nurses out there struggle with what I’ve been fighting over the last year or so. Whenever I’m in a large crowd and see elderly people or someone not looking so hot, I play...
View ArticleWhy I Can’t Cry With You
Since my post entitled I Wish I Could Cry With You, But I Can’t went up a LOT of people have commented! I felt the need to write a follow-up post to further explain myself. I think that a lot of...
View ArticleAssisted Suicide: A Nurse’s Perspective
This is a guest blog post written by fellow nurse author, Susan Allison-Dean, MSN RN. This can be a pretty emotionally-charged topic and was interested to hear about her research during graduate...
View ArticleGuest Blog Post: A Mother’s Goodbye
Just like I’ve done one hundred times before, I recently held a young patient’s hand while we withdrew life support and they passed away. We have to stay in the rooms throughout the passing in order...
View ArticleWhen Your Patient Starts Crying
Everyone has their own forte’, and for some, providing emotional support to people in crisis can be an OMG WHAT DO I DO moment. It can be uncomfortable. It can be weird. It can be scary. It can be one...
View ArticleHolistic Nursing Care: Building Trust Through Genuine Connection
It was a pretty typical neuro ICU kind of day. I had two patients in the rooms right next to each other. They both were pretty sick, but in very different ways. One man was an alcoholic that fell and...
View ArticleThe Death of a Heart
I recently saw this video on YouTube and thought it was necessary to share. Nurslings, new grads, nurses new to telemetry.. check out this 1 minute video of a cardiac arrest: The post The Death of a...
View ArticleSitting Down for Your Patient
I went to NTI in Denver, Colorado this last week. For those of you that don’t know, it’s an annual national conference for critical care nurses. And it’s awesome. I went to a lot of sessions. Some...
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You’re a Life Saver. Literally
I don’t know if any of you nurses out there struggle with what I’ve been fighting over the last year or so. Whenever I’m in a large crowd and see elderly people or someone not looking so hot, I play...
View ArticleSomething You’re Dying to Talk About
Being a critical care nurse, I’ve witnessed quite a few people pass away. I’ve assisted in taking people off of the ventilator to allow them to pass naturally. I’ve cared for patients that are...
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