Posts Tagged ‘nursing stories’

A Shout-Out to St Mary’s ER/6th Floor, in Athens GA & Roundup of Nursing Reads This Week

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Nursing Angels and Police Officers:

One of the reasons you should always need to be nice to nurses, and police officers, is that eventually, you’ll need ‘em.  We all get sick, even the healthiest among us, will age.  And the chances of living your whole life, without being exposed to a crime-or stopped for speeding, is just about zero.

My son-in-law had to be hospitalized at St Mary’s in Athens, GA, with complications after recent back surgery.  I want to give a shout-out to the ER nurses, the ER Doc, and the nurses on the 6th floor for their compassion and care.

And no, they didn’t know a blogger with a national audience was in the ER waiting room-along with the pregnant girls, moaning with ROM, the softball, and work injured, and a few crack-heads, looking after one of their own (just a clinical observation-no facts here).

An ER on Friday night here, is an ER on Friday night-like anywhere in the US.

And just a warning to those nurses in Athens-my son-in-law is a police officer-so be extra nice.  He may be the smiling face asking for your Drivers License and insurance card, when you are running late for your next shift….. Thanks again!

Now for the Round-up of great nursing reads:

For a discussion on privacy and grief-check out this article by JParadisi RN. Having practiced medicine for 25 years in the same town, I have read far too many obituaries of patients.  The advantage of small towns you can send a card, flowers, or attend a service, and no one has a second thought about HIPAA.  Everyone assumes you know what is going on.

Sean at My Strong Medicine blasts the spot reducing myth.  Dammit, I was trying to get rid of the bags under my eyes…..

Man Nurse Diaries, has a thought provoking article about self-titration of hypertensive (blood pressure) meds.  I think that makes great common sense.  But it does require the patient to be able to, and comply with home blood pressure monitoring, and having a simple sliding scale type treatment plan.  It has worked in diabetes care for years!

Emergiblog has the 5th Anniversary Edition of Change of Shift! Congrats, Kim on your support of nurses in the blogging world!

At Your Cervix, explains why it takes an hour to get Tylenol in a hospital. Couldn’t have said it better!

Nurse XY has a post about the “S” word-and no you will have to go to his site to see what “S” means.

And for another take on privacy in medicine, see Aburdity is the New Reality by A Nurse and Her Camera.

Have a Great Week!

Great Stories From Nurse Bloggers

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

For a review of what is going on with Nurse Bloggers, check out these sites and articles:

Emergiblog, writes about a blogging crisis of sorts. Since my blog is in it’s infancy, I can’t relate to a mid-blog crisis, but I think all of us who write regularly go through ups and downs in our creativity and energy!  Take two aspirin, and get back at it, is my free medical opinion, Kim! (and you get what you pay for!!!)

jparadisi writes, “It Ain’t No Sin To Be Glad You Are Alive” a well written glimpse into the lives of nurses.  Take a minute and read the post.  You will be glad you did.

At Nurse Zone, check  this post about OR Nurses asking for universal Time Out.  We have been doing Time Out at our facility for a couple of years now.  For you non-medical readers, Time Out is a brief moment before a surgical case is started inn the operating room. The OR is supposed to be silent, and the procedure, equipment, patients full name is announced-similar to a check list before takeoff in aplane.

Impacted Nurse, has this article about disaster response and nurses.  Particularly interested in the mental aspects of responding to disasters and its affect on the medical responders.

Nurse Practioner’s View encourages men to get Prostate Exams. Great advice.  I tell my patients that prostate cancer is God’s revenge on men, for Women’s suffering during childbirth.

At Your Cervix, writes about the dying art of hands on nursing. True in most parts of medicine.

Sean at Male Nurse, writes about falling off the fitness/healthy eating train. Been there/done that!  Great advice-get after it once again!

Laney, at Nursing Student Chronicles discusses the wonders of putting classroom learning together in real-world patients.   Most of those things we do learn for a reason, although that can be hard to fathom while studying at 2AM.

See Jane Nurse writes about Bondage-now get your mind out of the gutter-not that kind of Bondage… well maybe not, you have to go read to find out.

End of Life Care, and conversations with family members involved is the topic of Torontoemerg’s latest post!

Head Nurse discusses blood drawing etiquette.

Male Nurse Action Figure-Photo by gcfairch

Hope you enjoyed reading this collection as much as I did!  Thanks to all the Nurse Bloggers who continue to write about their world!

Nursing Reads: Not For The Squeamish!

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

I try to review/promote  posts from Nursing Blogs that I feel would be of interest to my nurse readers-and anyone else.

Maybe you want to know what is going on behind the scenes in health care. (Warning-Not for the Squeamish!)-Actually, this week, the stories are pretty tame, (from a blood and guts standpoint)-but you never know……

J. Paradisi has a great post about leadership, and getting heard.

Guerilla Nursing has a story called “Mothers”, it is amazing what folks can deal with-cause they have to!

If you think drinking and driving in a snowmobile, (insert 4 wheeler/boat/car) is fun, read this one called First Trauma, from TorontoEmerg.

RehabRN has a short post about complaints.

GuitarRN had a “Rupture” weekend-been there done that, scary is an understatement!

And last, but certainly not least, this story from a great parenting blog, Better Parenting,  about teens, raising children, and those challenges-not from a nurse, but a great read!!

Let me know what you think!

Change of Shift-April Fools Edition-A Great Collection of Nursing Stories

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Kim at Emergiblog, asked me to host Vol 4, number 19 edition of Change of Shift.  On April Fool’s Day!!!

Well the jokes on you, I decided not to do it…..

by neiljs

April Fool!!!!!

And for you non-nursing readers, Change of Shift is a nursing blog carnival. There are great posts here, health care discussions that you will enjoy,  so check it out.  Hey, with all the medical shows out there, you probably have an advanced degree in medical lingo -right!

Thanks for visiting here at The Millionaire Nurse-my growth has been phenomenal in the past 6 months, thanks to folks like Kim, who still support new-comers to the web!

In Honor of April Fools Day, I thought I would share quotations that use the word “Fool.”  See if you recognize any of them.

“When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.” Cynthia Heime

So here goes:

From “Off the Charts” at the American Journal of Nursing has a post about the AJN’s stance on the National Nurse Initiative.

Digital Doorway has a post about The National Nurse Act of 2010.

From Beka at Medscape Nurses Blog, this post about Health Care reform, certainly a timely topic, on which we all agree……(That is an April Fool’s joke right there.)  And if you are not signed up with Medscape, you will have to do so to read, but you might as well sign up.  Great place to visit…

“He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.” Chinese Proverbs

by Dave Hamster

From Nurse Practitioner School Blog, this post gives you 100 reasons, yes 100 reasons to become a nurse.  See if you can find your reason here.

And Wendy, at Nurse PTO, asks “When did nurses become pencil pushers?????” I could add Doc’s to the paper/pencil pushers list….

“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.” Dale Carnegie

And at “The Dog Ate My Careplan”  (Got to love that name, used that excuse in 6th grade math homework)  writes about Med Math in this post, with equations and everything….

J. Paradisi RN’s Blog, this post about workplace violence-something that should be of concern to all.

“You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think.” The Talmud

And from Kim, at Emergiblog, this post about latte’s and life that is confronted daily in the ER-just need to add the Haldol allergy….

And from See Jane Nurse, a post about stress-stress as a nurse, why would you have stress-being underpaid and overworked…..

“He who is born a fool is never cured.” Proverb

Nurse Debbie, gives us a list of 25 great pediatric blogs….She also has recently posted about 25 celebrity docs on twitter-she left me out, but I am @DrDeanBurke (the host can take a few liberties, right….)

And from the American Journal of Nursing blog, a Brit’s take on our health care debate.

From Health Insurance Providers, a timeline of the various health care bills changes and when they occur-interesting reading-but requires focus-not that it is complicated or anything!!!!

That is all, enough reading to get you past April Fools Day…

Thanks for the submissions, and please visit each blogger, and take the time to comment-sometimes it gets lonely out here….

Have a great Easter!!!!! from my family to yours.

Dr Dean

Change of Shift is Up! Go Read a few Great Nursing Stories

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

Change of Shift, that long running carnival of Nursing Stories is up at Nursing Student Chronicles.

Laney has compiled a great list of posts.  This while going to school full time, getting a spring break vacation and working as a nursing assistant.  Can you say multi-tasking?????

Go take a look!

PS-I sent my submission to the wrong host-can you say stupid!

Well, I get to host next time-so maybe I won’t screw that up…….Maybe.

Great Nursing Stories: See "Change of Shift"!

Friday, January 8th, 2010

“Change of Shift” a carnival of nursing stories/posts is up at Emergiblog.  Kim does a great job collecting stories by and about nurses from all over the world.

Take your time to enjoy these while the weather is too cold with ice/snow to get out over the next few days.  And if you do have to get out, BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!!!!

A Collection of Nursing Posts-For Your Holiday Reading

Friday, December 25th, 2009

Emergiblog has posted a collection of posts by nurses in the blogoshere.  So while your turkey, and pecan pie is digesting, go grab a cup of coffee, sit by the fire, and read away!

And if you are at work, and things are slow, all your charting is done,  then take a few minutes to catch up with others in the nursing world.

Merry Christmas!

Dr Dean