Shift Observations

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photo: jparadisi

Three nurses at lunch break in the staff lounge, focus intently on their phones. A fourth nurse enters.

She asks, “What would we do without our smartphones?”

Silence.

One nurse looks up, smiles, and says, “Talk to  each other?”

A longer pause, then shrieks of laughter.

All heads return to their phones.

Published by jparadisirn

JParadisi RN, OCN emeritus, is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus in painting and writing. Her paintings and short stories have been published nationally. She has exhibited artwork in galleries throughout the Pacific Northwest. Julianna is a frequent contributor to Off The Charts, the blog of the American Journal of Nursing as a blogger and illustrator.