Send A Man To Nursing School

People…when you hurt yourself, please call your family members WHEN it happens as opposed to three days later when they release you from the hospital.
Especially if those family members are healthcare providers….
Mmmmm-Kay?

You know you’re with a nurse when…
…you walk past someone in the store and you all look at each other and say “2 person assist…”
…someone is talking about their grandchildren and they are boasting about “how beautiful the child’s veins are.”
…when watching the young girl falling down at the end of her axel’s while practicing [...]

Life’s little lessons.  The words of experience….
About Icy Hot
1)  Never put on Icy Hot immediately after getting out of a hot shower, and
2)  Never, ever, ever, pick your nose after applying Icy Hot to your hands…
I’m just saying

Today I will finish my hospital/health system orientation.
By Monday I should have my schedule for the unit(s) orientation that will occur over the next 10-14 days.
In some ways I feel “WOW, this is so cool and wonderful!” and in others it’s “OMG, they are really going to put people’s lives in my hands??  How silly [...]

Backstory 1:  During one of the last post-clinical conferences of our first semester the clinical instructor, Mrs. Marley, goes around the table and has each one of us give report on our client and discuss their issues and talk about RN Dx’s.  Mr. B.A. White (who, btw, is anything but timid) is giving discussing his [...]

If I didn’t have a calendar in front of me I’d swear it was August.
I haven’t been able to finish half of what I had hoped to accomplish these past couple of weeks between the rain, heat, and mainly the HUMIDITY.  It’s horrible out there.
I kept debating on whether to put in a garden this [...]

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mom’s out there.
And especially to the guys who are mom’s too (since being a great mother has little to do with physically bearing a child).

Me, carrying two armfuls of, well, just about everything.
Fellow student: Looks like you have an armful.
Me: Yep.
Fellow Student: If I hear a crash I’ll come running….
Me: Thanks. It’ll be too late then.
lol

What a relief the day after Angels Among Us is.
1. It feels great to run a 5k. This year I ran the entire length (last year had to stop a couple of times d/t side splints).
2. Being done with all the work it takes to run a team is a HUGE relief.
For [...]

Today is(was) Earth Day.
The day we acknowledge how important the earth is to our being and try to treat her a little better.
One day versus the other 364…
Me thinks we have this completely backwards.