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Category: Holiday Posts

For The Nurse on Your Holiday List: A “Shift From Hell” Emergency Kit

As if the onslaught of commercials isn’t enough to remind us, the winter holiday season has begun. For nurses, whose patients … More

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Gift, health, Holiday gifts for nurses, nurse bloggers, nurse blogs, nursing, shift from Hell, Shopping, Survival kit, the winter holiday season, Tis the season

Close Encounters at The Grocery Store: Thanksgiving

It’s the weekend before Thanksgiving, and I’m grocery shopping. Pushing a cart through throngs of people looking for that special can … More

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Brussels, Brussels sprout, Children and Youth, Cook, Fruit and Vegetable, grocery shopping, holidays, home, jparadisi rn, nurse lifestyles, nurses, nurses blogs, Thanksgiving

Celebrate Flag Day With 14% Discount on JParadisiRN Mugs Today Only!

Nurse mugs now available at the JParadisiRN Art Store. To Celebrate Flag Day, get a 14% discount on JParadisiRN original coffee … More

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Art, art and nursing, art store, coffee mugs, Flag Day, Julianna Paradisi, Nurse Coffee Mugs, Nurse gifts, pinning ceremony, Surgical mask

Nature’s Easter Egg

A nurse coworker raises chickens for their eggs. As a spring gift, she brought to work a carton of variously … More

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chickens, colored egg, Easter Eggs, egg photo, food, nature, nurse blogs, nurse lifestyles, RN blogs

JParadisiRN Blog: 2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted … More

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art and nursing, blogging, entertainment, helper monkeys, nurse blogs, oncology nurse blogs

Returning To Hoyt Street, Everything Has changed

I’m standing in line at the Post Office on Hoyt Street, along with at least fifty other people waiting to … More

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Christmas, Christmas lights, Clackamas Town Center Shooting, current-events, It's a Wonderful Life, Newtown shooting, nurse blogs, Post Office, PTSD, Public Safety, RN blogs

Miracle On Hoyt Street

If It Fits It Ships photo: jparadisi 2010 Trudging out of an Oregon rainstorm into the Post Office, I found a line of … More

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Christmas, christmas packages, comparing hospitals to the Post Office, holiday spirit, nurse lifestyles, oncology nurse blogs, Post Office, rn blog, wet dogs

Nurses, They’re Making Their Lists. Does Honesty Exclude Influence?

As 2012 draws to a close, editors compile their annual lists for publication: The Top 10 Worse Movies of the Year, … More

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entertainment, Gallup Poll Most Honest and Ethical Professions, health, leadership, media representation of nurses, nurse blog, Stephen Colbert, Times Magazine 100 Most Influential List

Close Encounters at Thanksgiving: The Grocery Store

It’s the weekend before Thanksgiving, and I’m grocery shopping. Pushing the cart through throngs of people looking for that special … More

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Brussels sprouts, grocery shopping, hand hygiene, holiday food, holiday stress, nurse blogs, nurse lifestyles, rn blog, shopping carts, Thanksgiving

I Wish I Said It

“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” … More

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Elmer Davis, gratitude, home of the brave, sacrifices, Veteran's Day

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Unknown's avatarJParadisiRN 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 was a frequent contributor of illustrated blog posts to Off The Charts, the blog of the American Journal of Nursing. She has been a nurse for 33 years, specializing in Pediatric Intensive Care, Oncology Infusion, and as an Oncology Nurse Navigator.

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