Step 1: Grab Coffee
Step 2: Gather Around
Step 3: Laugh Hysterically
If you’re a nurse, you’ll relate to these experiences. If you’re not, you’ll get a giggle or a scare. Enjoy!
If there is one thing I’ve come to appreciate through nursing, it’s the incredible complexity of a single human being. The brain is one of the most intricate wonders in the universe — and the nose isn’t far behind! Anatomy aside, the human spirit is endlessly fascinating. Over and over, I’ve seen how a person’s…
It was a wintery night shift in the post natal ward, when the midwives from the labour ward called in some of the post natal team to assist with a difficult delivery. The patient was a stage IV AIDS case and she was in no condition to be put under the knife, it was too…
I recently discovered some shocking news that a RN I used to work with died of Cancer. She complained about back and body pain for ages but dismissed it as part of the package when you’re a nurse. Every nurse experiences backache…nothing to panic about right? She was oblivious to that fact that she had…
I came across this YouTube vid of a little robin hatching. The mother robin knows exactly what she’s doing, keeping a watchful eye, guarding and warming her eggs. She attends to the hatched robin like a pro and clears out the empty shells as soon as the baby robin is free from it. Next the…
I’m extremely stoked to find that they’ve released an HD mod for an old game that I used to play, called “Theme hospital” by “Bullfrog”. Surprisingly it still works perfectly despite being more than ten years old and it still looks great. I used to play for hours in my teen days, before I had…
As you probably already heard, 116 people died on 22 May 2011, in Joplin Missouri as an enormous tornado unleashed its wrath upon the town. Buildings including the local hospital were ripped apart and destroyed. The Joplin hospital crisis is of particular interest to me, simply because having worked in a hospital, I imagine the…
Creativity is a form of expression and releasing it naturally feels great. Nothing feels more satisfying than something you’ve created with your own hands. When you create something, it doesn’t matter what form or shape it takes, it doesn’t matter if you’re the only one who understands its meaning. What matters is that it expresses…
When I served my "internship" at the old age home, one of the grannies I took care of was always distressed about her children wanting to get rid of her so badly, that they dumped her at an old age home miles away from her hometown and never visited her again. She would call me…
When I was 16, I needed to have my wisdom teeth removed. The surgery was not available in my hometown, so I set out on a road trip to Grey’s Hospital in Pietermaritzburg. I was admitted next to a woman who seemed to be in her thirties. I don’t know what she was admitted for…
Someone asked me what nurses think about when their patients undress. For the most part, we’re thinking, “damnit, when’s my coffee break?” We never really look for anything on your body except abnormalities, scars, bruises etc. – this is required for our notes. Basically, if you look like the picture in the anatomy and physiology…