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The Witching Hour by Nurse William Registered Nurse

1 Comment Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing 0430... It was hard to believe that less than two hours ago our 40-bed Emergency Department was nearly full. We managed to admit or discharge nearly all of our patients in th ... Read on »

A brief update by Nurse William Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Hi, all. It's been awhile since I posted. I'm not sick, just busy opening up a new Emergency Department at my hospital. We are shorthanded so I am working a lot of extra shift ... Read on »

Road Fest Part Five: Leaving Kingman by Nurse William Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Kingman, Arizona; 0800 (8AM for the rest of you) on day 4: I awoke to the bewitching aroma of coffee, sizzling bacon, and Southwest omelettes. Melanie (ER nurse) and Kevin (I ... Read on »

The ER: Stuff You Need to Know. Part 1: Triage by Nurse William Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Introduction: I recently wrote an article describing a variety of examples of poor behavior demonstrated by patients in the Triage section of my Emergency Department. While t ... Read on »

How To Be Taken Seriously by Your Triage Nurse by Nurse William Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Okay, I know this is a bit of a chronological jump, considering I was last writing about my recent odyssey. I'll get back to that soon. I am back at work now, and since retur ... Read on »

Road Fest Part 4: Busman's Holiday in Kingman (Or, Melanie and the Toe of Doom) by Nurse William Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing The deep, exhausted sleep into which I initially fell proved to be woefully short-lived. I was jolted awake around 1AM by the simple act of rolling over. My left great toe, w ... Read on »

Road Fest, Part 3: The Drive Across Mars by Nurse William Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Fallon, Nevada to Kingman, Arizona: I have been all over the world, and have seen some interesting terrain in my travels. But the landscape of western Nevada was just, well... ... Read on »

Road Fest, Part 2: Beth, and the Entrance to Nowhere by Nurse William Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing I had not slept so well in years. It was the kind of deep and dreamless Rip van Winkle sleep from which one awakens with the impression that no time had passed at all. The fir ... Read on »

McCain Selects Alaska Governor Palin as VP Candidate! by Nurse William Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Those of you who have known me over the years also know that a couple of years ago I decided to avoid discussing politics on my blog. I do not regret my choice. I much prefer- ... Read on »

High-Test Road Fest, Leg One: Outbound by Nurse William Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing I rose in the very early morning for my much-anticipated trip to San Diego with a sense of excitement and my three good companions: A cooler full of snack, my souped-up 2007 F ... Read on »

Road Trip! Road Trip! by Nurse William Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing It's been two years since I have had a break. It wasn't that I didn't have the opportunity; it's just that I never really thought about it. But a coming event has provided the ... Read on »

Hybrid Cars: Death in a Bunny Suit by Nurse William Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing If the public ever stopped to think for themselves, the 'eco-friendly' hybrid would be banned from our highways. They are not 'green.' They are, in fact, blacker than Hitler's ... Read on »

Heroes by Nurse William Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing He was sick, sick, sick. I inherited him at the change of shift. He was completely with it, but his body was failing him fast. The offgoing nurse offhandedly reported that t ... Read on »

That's Just So Wrong! -Then Again, It Makes Sense... by Nurse William Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing It was about 4PM on a Sunday. The waiting area was packed with malingering whiney-baws, harried soccer moms and their bruised, violent hooligans, armchair football warriors wh ... Read on »

A Long, Dry Spell by Nurse William Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing To all of my readers, Thank you for your patience. I have been very busy. I will post again as soon as time allows. I've been working extra shifts and my butt is dragging so ... Read on »

Chicago Attorney Keys Marine's Car, Hides Behind Law by Nurse William Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Okay, I try to stay away from politics and hot-button topics on my blog, but what is being done to one of our nation's finest by a suckegg, military-hating attorney really pis ... Read on »

Building a Boat (Or, The Coolest Christmas Present Ever!) by Nurse William Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing My closest friends know that my pre-nursing years were spent in the Merchant Marine, sailing around the world and living in exotic tropical island locales. When I was a sailor ... Read on »

Touching Base by Nurse William Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing I was recently shadowed by a high school senior during a couple of shifts. She was considering becoming a nurse and had an interest in Emergency Nursing. She followed me as I ... Read on »

The Truth about MRSA (Without the Media Panic) by Nurse William Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Okay, my friends. For the last week or so, the media have gotten Americans all worked up into a froth about this "deadly new bacteria" called MRSA. My ER is now inun ... Read on »

The Living Dead by Nurse William Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing I saw a woman at the store near my house last Wednesday morning after I got off work. The moment I saw the woman, I knew she was on Meth. Her face was covered with black sores ... Read on »

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