It’s been 7 years. This time of the year always has a special place in most of America’s hearts. September 11, 2001 is a date none of us will soon forget. It changed the face of our nation and impacted our world in a way none of us could have ever imagined. Emily (crzegrl) shared [...]
The latest installment of Change of Shift is up on crzegrl.net. This weeks theme was centered around International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Head on over to visit Emily a.k.a. crzegrl to see what a great job she did. Oh and I almost forgot. I was linked twice for two of my previous posts. Carpe [...]
Working in a Level 1 Trauma ICU is fast-paced to say the least. There isn’t much that happens on the unit that is in slo-mo. The staff takes this for granted sometimes. We are so used to the ‘pulse’ of the floor that what most would consider an emergency that warranted calling a ‘code’ and/or [...]
Continue reading about Fertilize your Crops, and Plant the Seeds of Growth
So in lieu of my last post on Wallpaper, I thought I’d throw another log on the fire and continue talking about noises and/or alarms on the nursing floor. The other day I was tending to one of my patients. A fellow co-worker walked by and asked if I need any help, and I kindly [...]
The alarms on your monitors. The call bell lights flashing. The call bell alarm being triggered. The unit phone ringing. All of them can be, and are often subliminally categorized as Wallpaper. It was a term coined by a fellow nurse who was the Safety Officer for a certain hospital I used to work for. [...]
