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Last week I had a patient who was in the air force and was deployed to Vietnam during the war. He couldn't sleep that night in the hos...

The other day my friend sent me a link to one of the best nursing related posts I have read in a while... "Just a Nurse"  writ...

When I was in nursing school my teachers would always talk about the "art and science of nursing". The marriage of scientific kno...

Right now I am supposed to be reading “Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber” and every time I switch my browser to my school's p...

 This week... this week has just been too heavy. There has been this weight resting on my chest. Like a vice slowly closing in on my lun...

I have been a nurse at a Veterans Hospital for almost four years now. It is hard to believe that it has been that long. I haven't he...

It is my first day off so my sleep is broken and I am awake at 4:00am. I tried to close my eyes ...willing my mind to rest but all t...

Today is one of those days where I wish I wasn't a nurse. I dream of having a job where life and death is not on the table. Where the ...

I should be doing my homework right now but my brain has turned into complete mush... so here I am catching up on a long overdue post....

“Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true s...

It has been nice to see everyone acknowledging the true meaning behind memorial day. There were only a handful of the blogs I follow who di...

Most of the time I live by impossible standards and I know this. I tend to be meticulous about my environment and my work. I am detailed an...

I've been tryin' to get down...  to the heart of the matter...  but my will gets weak... and my thoughts seem to scatter  ...

This week has been strange. It started off with what was undoubtedly the most insane night shift I have ever encountered. 2 code blues, two...

Warning: I'm about to get brutally honest here so hang in there with me... this won't be one of those mushy "nursing is so g...

 To all of the veteran's out there who have fought and sacrificed for our country. The service you have given us all never ceases to ama...

Today I am tired. After a four day stretch of 12 hour shifts your emotional and physical stores are virtually non-existent. They are worn ...

Right now there is a patient on our unit that I can safely say everyone... and I mean everyone dreads taking care of. He is one of those ty...

Working in a veteran's hospital you see a lot of things. A lot of substance abuse, mental health issues and alcoholism... PTSD is rampan...

It is now day three of my week. I haven't slept much and the last 48 hours have taken a lot out of me. I wake up to a text message from ...