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Category: Pediatric Intensive Care Nursing

The Beds We Make

During the lockdown of the pandemic, like many people, I spent more than my usual amount of time at home. To entertain myself, I stopped making my bed daily for about a week. I made sketches of the bedding arrangements as the week progressed. Then I made the painting.

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Art, art and nursing, Art Exhibition, Bed Making, juliannaparadisiart, nursing, Painting of Bed, patient care, Posts about Art

A Nurse and a Pharmacist Go On a Date That Resulted In Better Patient Care

“So, let me get this straight. If you have a cardiac event, or stop breathing, I can start CPR on you and potentially save your life, but if I go down, all you can do is call 911 and cry?”

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art and nursing, CPR, nurse blogs, nurse lifestyles, nurses, PALS, patient care, patient safety, Pediatric Codes, pharmacists

Reflections of A Nurse-Mother

“Yeah, I’m taking classes to become a massage therapist. My mom is a nurse, and I’ve always been interested in health sciences because of that. I want to help people enhance their health.”

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nurse blogs, nurse lifestyles, pediatric intensive care nursing, Pediatric intensive-care unit, pediatric nursing

Writing to The So What?

First of all, I apologize to my friends and family on Facebook for the uncharacteristic political updates.  Thank you to … More

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blogging, furosemide, moral distess, nurse bloggers, nursing intuition, nursing practice, politics

Ode to a Pair of Nursing Clogs

This year I took a summer vacation, one of the joys of which was time painting in the studio. I’ve … More

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art and nursing, art studios, clogs, letting go, nurse artists, nurse shoes, painting, PICU nurses, PICU nursing, self care, self-expression

New Nurse Niki Episode! Bruises Not Scratches

Bruises Not Scratches is this week’s new episode of The Adventures of Nurse Niki. Niki finishes the story of her … More

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art & nursing, Fictional Doctors and Nurses, pediatric intensive care nurse blog, The Adventures of Nurse Niki

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: New Episode of The Adventures of Nurse Niki

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up is this week’s new episode of The Adventures of Nurse Niki. Niki’s easy shift … More

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art about nurses, art and nursing, media representation of nurses, pediatric intensive care nurse blog, pediatric intensive care nursing, The Adventures of Nurse Niki

New Episode: It’s Not All Cute Print Scrubs and Bunny Blankets

  It’s Not All Cute Print Scrubs and Bunny Blankets is this week’s episode of The Adventures of Nurse Niki. … More

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Fictional Doctors and Nurses, media depictions of nurses, pediatric intensive care nursing, pediatric nursing, PICU nurse blogs, The Adventures of Nurse Niki, writers

The Adventures of Nurse Niki Are Back!

After a long hiatus, I’ve posted a new episode of The Adventures of Nurse Niki, Chapter 54. I almost forgot how … More

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art and nursing, Fictional Doctors and Nurses, media representation of nurses, The Adventures of Nurse Niki, writing

All Deaths Are a Great Loss

When I was in nursing school, an “elderly” instructor (she must have been at least 60) asked our class, “Is … More

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death and dying, grief, loss, nurses, nursing school, old age, youth

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A Little About Myself

JParadisiRN 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 frequently contributes 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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