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Well… We really thought we’ll be moving houses today. Billy and I spoke to the owner last night and he said that the electric company cut the house’s power supply ...

I’ve been trying to keep my application a secret for a while. Not because I’m selfish and I don’t want to share the great opportunity to others but because I ...

Holy smokes! I have ten thousand things piled up on my to do list! Last night, I received an email from my agency re: the dates for me to accomplish ...

Well, well, well… It’s been a while huh?! My fault. Been too lazy to write something up after the wedding. I’ll try my best to not bore you with so ...

My Gosh!!! It’s getting nearer and nearer! I can’t believe that it’s just a week away from my wedding… I don’t want to feel stressed but actually I am. My ...

These are very interesting times in the world and in the nursing profession. We continue to read about the severe nursing shortage and how it will get even worse. And ...

I recently attended religious services in a town I was visiting. Upon entering the facility I was handed a pamphlet that had the program in it and upcoming events. On the back ...

As the president of the NJ Chapter of the National Speakers Association (www.nsaspeaker.org), I was recently asked to speak at a local Kiwanis International club meeting. I suggested speaking on ...

I was recently speaking with a meeting planner (someone who orchestrates conferences and conventions for a client) and she said she wanted me to speak to a group of hospital ...

Last week I was installed as president of the National Speakers Association - NJ Chapter (I officially start in that role on July 1). I was once president of another ...

A Thanksgiving edition of Change of Shift is up over at Rehab RN.  I hope everyone had a happy and relaxing Thanksgiving!  :)

Anne writes: A friend once said that if you throw enough putty at the wall, something’s bound to stick!  Well, here’s some unedited putty. I’d been practicing nursing for 20+ ...

I don’t usually post this kind of story submission, but it does ring a bit true.  I do know preceptors sometimes have a difficult time providing feedback to their preceptees ...

Anon, RN writes: I’m trained as an ICU nurse but lately I’ve been picking up these shifts in an outpatient pain treatment clinic. It hasn’t been an easy thing to ...

Here’s a very thought-provoking post from edwinleap.com: So the money is flowing from the taxpayers to the industries in order to keep all of them solvent.  Mind you, we in ...

Something quite strange has been happening here on Life in the NHS lately, and that is the popularity of Gordon Brown as a tearch subject. Gordon got off to a ...

Woolworths is part of the nostalgia of our child hood and youth. It is the place we spent our pocket money, it was somewhere our mums knew they could buy ...

We all have baggage. The things that happen to us throughout our lives - for example child hood bullying, our experiences of adolescence or educational systems, personal relationships including marriage ...

The HSJ online now has a number of probably highly important health service managers writing blog posts for their website. I say probably, because most of these are written by ...

The celebrity dancing contest known affectionately to us all as Strictly (come dancing) has pretty much become top news today. The contestants are made up of a mixture of models, ...

Welcome to the second edition of the “MetaCarnival”! Brainchild of Alvaro Fernandez of Sharp Brains, the MetaCarnival seeks to bring together the best of the blogosphere by sampling the diverse ...

Happy Thanksgiving from the Star Wars family, including Darth’s twin brother Garth! Who knew? My nephew brought his Star Wars figures and I couldn’t resist taking a “family” photo. You ...

A high school class tours a local hospital in the 60’s. Future Nurses of America, you might say. The girl in the middle has an expression that just cracks me ...

I never studied in my uniform. I certainly never studied in my cap. But hey! I have it right here in the closet! I could wear it around the house! ...

Oh my goodness! I don’t know what is worse! That fact that these are actually made … Or the fact that I actually want one! One can never have too ...

This is a bit of a follow up…back in the deep dark archives of this blog, I told of my grandad and his total knee replacement which he had completed ...

This week something in a patients notes was drawn to my attention. I had sent a lady in her late 30’s for a chest X-ray, the report that returned read… ...

In a recent post I identified ways in which patients can (and often do) irritate their clinicians….as such it seems only fair to reverse these roles… The following list comes ...

As I get a tiny bit older (not old, just older), I realise my perception of time isn’t quite right.  I see the patients date of birth and think…oooh they ...

I recently posted a singular rant about a patient that wound me up…I thought perhaps I should expand on other things that really get my goat. Somethings patients do really ...