Forever grateful

I am happy to be off work today, especially since I thought I was going to be wearing a cast on my dominant arm. Let's just say walking up hills and wearing certain footwear is hazardous. (I wasn't going far, so I thought I was immune). Nevertheless, after a quick trip for an x-ray and eval, I found out, I was scraped, sore and suffering from a really bad bone bruise between the bones of my arm.

I raise my glass today in honor of those who have come before us, who died and were disabled on the job to give honor to a hard day's work.

The honorable today includes all of you: nurses in the EDs, in the ORs, in the rehab units, in the clinics, in the every inpatient, outpatient, consultant and administrative role.

Your work is honorable and I salute you! Happy Labor Day wherever you are.

Something we can relate

Yes, I'm sure many of you who come here may have witnessed a scene like this one in this recent Well article from the NY Times.

Lots of drama. Lots of noise. Lots of "hell no" going on in the background,  even if no one explicitly says it.
Reminded me of Head Nurse's recent post of the cheerful ED nurse.

Makes me miss the drama of the clinic I worked in a few years ago with the character who screamed he was in so much pain until he got shipped off via ambulance and got the Dilaudid. Our character hadn't used that in the Washington ED before, so staff got him/her the goods.

It happens to nurses too

I saw this post on a site I venture to regularly and it just reminded me that restaurant folks aren't the only ones who get caught up in this dilemma.

One ED nurse got fired for an Instagram post.

Word to the wise: be careful out there, folks. Know and understand how to use social media approriately.

The boys are back

And they're telling stories at Serenity Now Hospital again. Yippee!

Glad to have you back! Enjoying the snark coming out of the ED again. Not sure if the stripper story or the citrus one are more clearly Captain Obvious cases or not.

Go see for yourselves. More to come...