The Gift in Room 3 | Love Your Nursing Life | RN Bobbi McCarthy
Standing in the middle of the nurse’s station, I faxed a chart to Spring Harbor for our psych patient in room 11 and I watched the patient in room 3. Her twisted body was lying on the stretcher in a semi-sitting position. She was covered […]
The Patient That Enters Your Heart | Love Your Nursing Life | Bobbi McCarthy
I met her as she ran into room 1 carrying his little grey body…the triage nurse was just ahead of her with scared eyes. The mom, carrying the little grey body, was not crying. I wanted to. I took the little grey body from […]
Partnership in the Journey of Health | Love Your Nursing Life | Bobbi McCarthy
As the music starts pumping through the MP3 player speakers, the whole gym full of women take their positions and ready for the Zumba class to take off. My friend and I give each other a grin and laugh…this is our first class and though […]
Undercover Boss | Love Your Nursing Life | Bobbi McCarthy
I was watching the show Undercover Boss the other night and it made me a little emotional. The show has a wonderful concept, the CEO of the company goes undercover and becomes a worker in 2 or 3 different areas of the company to find […]
The Woman at the Well | Let Your Heart Guide Your Care
“Perhaps our real work, whether offering or seeking care, is to recognize that the healing relationship–the field upon which patient and practitioner meet–is, to use the words of the mythologist Joseph Campbell, a ‘self-mirroring mystery’–the embodiment of a singular human activity that raises essential […]
Hard Lesson Learned | Self-Care
I was supposed to fly to Virginia on Jan. 13th with my son to be with my daughter, her husband and baby, (my 7 week old grandson) BUT I contracted strep throat and became quite ill rather fast on Jan. 12th. By 8pm on the […]
A Chance to Give from the Heart | The Importance of Bedside Manner in Health Care
The ER was in a rare state of calm…several patients being tended to but NO chaos!! I was assigned to the patient coming in by Delta~ I prepped the room and waited. The patient arrived, awake but tearful. His wife was with him. It seems the patient was having […]
A Heavy Heart | Where’s the Moral Compass for Informing End Stage Patients?
I cannot get into specifics but I have a question for all of you fellow nurses. What do you do when you have a patient that is young, experiencing end stage metastatic cancer and they do not know it. The oncologist has not given them […]
Trip Down Memory Lane | Take Time to Connect with your Love for Nursing
I had the awesome privilege of being able to speak to an Associate RN class on my experience with nursing, burn out, self-care and Reiki the other day. As I stood in front of the class and reflected on my 21 years of experience it […]