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Reality Unscripted articles
Reality Unscripted I've done a lot of talking over the past couple of years about finding the job that's right for you. In the nursing profession, there are so many types of jobs in a variety of places, that you don't have to settle for a work environment that you don't love. Until now.
I confess: I've kind of done a 180 in the area of job satisfaction, [...] Reality Unscripted Love the current proposal or hate it, it's hard to deny that this country needs health care reform. And as a nurse married to a small business owner, I am certainly interested--and invested--in the topic.
As health care professionals, we have a first row seat to the drama as it unfolds. We know the stories of patients who have insufficient or no coverage. Who have not [...] Reality Unscripted Related: Attitude, Boundaries, Caregivers, Caring, Charting, Expectations, Patient Advocate, Patients
Rooming patients, giving injections, charting, answering the phone, taking messages. These are all listed in my job description with a whole list of other normal office nursing kinds of things.
Not listed, but also expected: picking up paperclips from the floor, trying to keep my piles neat, and telling someone when the Kleenex are running low. And really, truth be told, I probably spend as [...] Reality Unscripted Related: Caregiving, Compassion, Confidence, Emotions, Failure, Fear, Feelings, Patient Advocate, Problem Solving
I spent last week as a camp nurse in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. For the most part, I spent my days giving kids their meds, removing splinters, putting band-aids on scrapes, and generally being a mom. It didn't take as much skill as a ready smile and encouraging word.
Then Wednesday night hit. It was the beginning of a 24-hour period that had my adrenaline [...] Reality Unscripted I hate conflict! Doesn't matter who it's with or what the reason is, I just hate it. It makes me uncomfortable and leaves me feeling agitated. I tend to be more of a "flight" than "fight" kind of gal.
The thing is, conflict is a part of life. So we all have to learn how to deal with it. It happens at home, at work, even [...] Reality Unscripted Nurse Jackie.
Love her or hate her, she certainly has generated some strong comments from our readers. The general consensus was that the TV show, which depicts the life of a nurse, is unrealistic. Some find it offensive, some find it funny. We could argue the rights and wrongs of this particular show for days, but here's what I would like to know. How would a good [...] Reality Unscripted Do you ever feel overwhelmed?
Like you're trying to move forward with something but you're walking through deep, thick mud. You have some task in front of you (like writing a blog post) and you just can't seem to get it done. I'm just coming out of a period of time where my whole life felt that way. I couldn't seem to keep my house clean, couldn't [...] Reality Unscripted Swine flu. There are millions of people who are panicking over the mere mention of it. Schools are closing. People are changing travel plans. Government officials have stopped taking public transportation....and everybody and their brother is calling their doctor's office.
I, on the other hand, am not panicked. I am annoyed. The phones of every doctor's office in the country, and possibly a few other countries, [...] Reality Unscripted It happened last week. I was sitting at my desk, minding my own business, doing my nurse thing. Suddenly, my heart started acting strange.
I thought it was PVC's, which I have occasionally, but it felt a little different. I took the stethoscope that was hanging around my neck and listened to my heart. Wow, I thought, that's pretty fast. As I counted the beats, I [...] Reality Unscripted Have I ever told you the story of why I left Pediatric Intensive Care?
I walked into work one day and one of our little patients went into respiratory arrest right as I finished getting report on her. We spent the next 12 hours saving the life of this poor little girl. The patient had been born with problems (though all these years later I have no [...]
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