Over the years, nurses have been told to do more, to be more.Work more hours, care for more patients, do more training modules, chart more data, be on more committees, attend more meetings, have more roles, do MORE be MORE… More. MORE. MORE. At some point, when you distort something, when you add more to …
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Make it Through the Night
I have worked in two very different areas of nursing now, but both with a surgical emphasis. And I’ve felt in both areas that caring for your first post-operative patient who just underwent surgery that day is almost like a universal “rite of passage”. I currently work in the world of pediatric cardiac critical care, …
The Art of Nursing
***This essay was selected as the first place finalist in the 2020 Dr. Mary E. Wurzbach Nursing Essay Competition, put on by Eta Pi, the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh chapter of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, and has now been published online HERE: https://hekint.org/2020/07/28/the-art-of-nursing/ *** When discussing her 1991 suspension installation …
The First Year
I’ve been working as a Registered Nurse for one year now. One year down in the profession I’ve dreamed of joining since I was a little girl, playing “hospital” with my stuffed animals. During the past year, I completed the nationally recognized and accredited Nurse Residency Program at UW Health University Hospital, on the Abdominal …
The Wordy Nurse 