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Looking for Bombs and for Tumors: When Does Risk Outweigh Benefit?

On Friday night, to coin the phrase of writer Anne Lamott, I began the “sh#*tty first draft” of a new blog…

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bomb threat, breast cancer, full body scans, Mohamed Osam Mohamud, new mammogram recommendations, nurse blog, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland OR, Portland OR car bomb, risk versus benefit, rn blog, terrorism, TSA airport security

Fancy Cranberry Sauce with an Italian Twist

  I always cook with wine, and sometimes I put it in the food. a plaque in my Mom’s kitchen…

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cranberry sauce, holiday food, nurse lifestyles, nursing blog, Recipes, relishes, rn blog, sides, Thanksgiving recipe

Slow Cooked Steel-Cut Oats

  If you have a home full of visiting relatives this week, here’s a quick, easy and healthy breakfast recipe.…

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breakfast, easy breakfast recipe, nurse lifestyle, nurses blog, Recipes, rn blog, steel-cut oats

The Season of Poverty and Thanksgiving

You know it’s going to be a long shift when you open your first chart of the morning, and the…

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art and nursing, holiday anxiety, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, nurses blog, Perspective, poverty, rn blog, safety, season of poverty, Thanksgiving

I Wish I’d Said It

“You can either buy clothes or buy pictures,” she said. “It’s that simple. No one who is not very rich…

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Art, collecting, Ernest Hemingway, fashion, gertrude stein, nurses blog, Perspective, quotes, rn blog

Learning to Observe, Observing to Learn

Here’s a collection of loose observations I made last week: People who lie or cheat believe that everyone else in…

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Art, choices, life choices, lifestyle, my life, nurse lifestyle, nurses blog, nursing and art, nursing culture, observations, Precepting, rn blog

I Wish I’d Said It

  Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like hard work. Thomas A.…

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nurses blog, quotes, rn blog, Thomas A. Edison, Veteran's Day

The Pathology of Patient Safety

The other day I said something I regretted while giving a medication during a procedure. Before giving the med, I…

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5 rights of medication administration, medication administration, obessive compulsive, pathology, patient care, patient safety, perfectionism, rn blog, speed versus accuracy

New Blog Round Up at The Millionaire Nurse

Dr. Dean at The Millionaire Nurse has a new round-up of nurse blog posts. I don’t know how he keeps…

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blog round up, nurses blog, rn blog, The Millionaire Nurse

I Wish I Said It

Oh, I am a lonely painter. I live in a box of paints. I’m frightened by the devil, and I’m…

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Art, blue, Joni Mitchell, nurse blogs, quotes, rn blog

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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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