RadaRN: Nurse Magnetism
Around three hundred million people live in the United States. About three million of them are nurses. I make that one in a hundred. This demographic worried me a bit when I first retired. Nurses just don’t share a shift or a workplace. They share […]
Lending A Hand | A Nurse’s Occupational Hazard
Before I was a nurse, I had occasion to be a young patient. I had a brief but painful procedure to undergo. My nurse was named Anne. She told me that if it hurt, I should just go ahead and scream. It was nighttime, and […]
Message in a Bottle | RN JoAnn Spears Enters the World of Texting
I recently bit the bullet and started text messaging. It’s not like face time and it ain’t Hallmark, but it has its advantages. It was an added bonus to discover that a career’s worth of nurses’ notes was the ultimate preparation for a would-be texter. […]
Imagine That — Nurses: Country Music’s Egregious Omission
Living in Tennessee as I do, I hear a lot of country music. It occurred to me recently that no one has ever written a hit country song about nurses. I trolled the internet to confirm my suspicion, and it seems to be true. I […]
Losing Keys: A Kubler-Ross Five-Stage Experience
I lost my keys the other day. Most boomers would chalk it up to a senior moment and move on. Most boomers are not nurses. Nurses can be weird about keys. It was the beginning of a compressed, forty-eight hour, Kubler-Ross, Five-stage experience. Denial The […]
Leader of the Back…er, Pack | Inspiration for your Aching Back
You could say that Ol’ Arthur beats my butt, or that I have a hitch in my git-along. In short, my back hurts. Since the lifetime prevalence of musculoskeletal injuries among nurses is as high as 80%, I am guessing you are sympathetic, but not […]
Top Ten Things Retired Nurses Can’t Let Go Of
http://youtu.be/YEC2GzXCC44 I am selling my home. I just know that the anonymous buyers who will soon be parading through my bedroom will think that a peep at my clothes closet is fair game. Being a congenitally poor closet organizer, I decided that the best thing […]
The House that Built Me
Ever showed up for work, wondering…who’s got the house? Nurse managers don’t wonder, of course, they just pray…Oh God, don’t tell me I have the house tonight.The one-house nurses found their career home right after school, and stayed there. Other nurses, like me, were peripatetic, […]
