The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski

Here is a lovely bit of poetry written by Charles Bukowski and read by Tom Waits.  In case you didn’t…

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How I Became a Nurse Part II: Gatekeepers

“Jules, you need to quit wasting your talents working with Sister Sebastian up there on the Pediatric unit. I want…

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I Wish I’d Said It

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -Aristotle

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In The February Issue of The American Journal of Nursing

One of my coworkers brought the February 2011 issue the American Journal of Nursing to work.  My short story The…

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How I Became a Nurse Part I-It Could Not Have Begun Worse

  It could not have begun worse. I was not prepared for the difficult transition from student nurse to a…

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Nurses and Pharmacists: For Valentine’s Day All We Want Is Respect

I’ve written before that I am happily married to a pharmacist. Sometimes when we come home from work, we commiserate…

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Of Med Errors and Brain Farts

I read the physician’s order carefully, looked up the medication in the nurses’ drug book, and consulted with our pharmacist before…

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I Wish I’d Said It

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. Franklin D. Roosevelt

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In the Absence of Clouds, Artists and a Nurse Discuss Death and Dying (or The Art of the Death Panel)

Outside, it was a rare, January day of cloudless sunshine. Instead of enjoying it, I sat on a bench towards…

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New Edition of Change of Shift at Emergiblog!

A new edition of Change of Shift is posted at Emergiblog. Many thanks to Kim for including my post for…

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