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Marriage, Love and Holistic Nursing

My husband and I have been married for 27 years, and have been together for 29.  We were high school sweethearts. I love to think back on those days.  I was the cheerleader and he was the jock from a...

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pediatrics and the ER

Her little blue eyes darted from her mother to me repeatedly as tears built up and dropped onto her cheeks. I smiled at her and set my equipment down on the counter.  Her little chin quivered with fear...

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Rape and the ER patient

I know I’m sitting here on this stool because I can feel it under me. I see my patient across the room but I cannot easily take in the image. My brain feels like it has stopped functioning. I can’t...

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Faith, God and the ER patient

In the process of returning from taking my lunch break and walking through the front of the ER by triage I spotted one of my daughter’s friends sitting in the waiting area with her father. I went up to...

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An exercise of compassion

The ER is in total chaos today. All 23 rooms are full, the behavioral health suite is full, the waiting room is full and even the hallway is full. Full of sick patients. The nurses are frazzled,...

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An important few moments in time

It’s one of those ultra crazy ER days with all the beds full, waiting room restless, and the hallway filling up as well. A rescue call comes in over the “bat phone” for an elderly gentleman needing...

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Holistic nursing care

A category 2 abdominal pain patient was brought into room 5 from the waiting room of my ER…She was an early 20 something who happened to be 17 weeks pregnant…she was complaining of diffuse belly pain,...

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Grief knows no bounds

Its 2am and I have just hung up the phone. A hospice patient’s wife needs my presence. Quietly racing through the motions of getting undressed and redressed in the cold laundry room I realize my...

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Past and Present Collide

I could hear her crying and screaming in pain as I entered the ER for my evening shift. The door to her room was closed but the bone chilling cries echoed out beneath the wooden door and filled the...

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Remembering Buddy

Today Catholics celebrate All Souls Day – a day to say an extra prayer and remember loved ones who have passed on. This is for you Buddy and Diane. Today I remember him more intentionally He is gone...

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Twas the Night Before Christmas and the Nurse is at Work

Twas the night before Christmas and the nurse is at Work Twas the night before Christmas and the nurse is at work Many a creature is stirring, including a jerk. All the IV’s are hung by their poles...

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What does a nurse do anyway???

There we were, a bunch of people that I love, sitting around the table discussing our week, and the subject turned to jobs…then somehow it turned to college and why education was or was not important....

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Seventeen and pregnant

She came to the ER for complaints of dizziness, intermittent nausea and fatigue x 5 days. She denied vomiting, diarrhea or pain. She told me that she is never sick and that this is “really bothering me...

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Alzheimers and Dying in the ER

The call comes in from EMS as “72 y.o. man with end stage Lung Cancer in respiratory distress~ vitals stable~”. Family requesting transport to the ER for evaluation. He is on Hospice~ the nurse tells...

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