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Those Emergency Blues http://torontoemerg.wordpress.com/
Shorter: Emergency Department Charge Nurse. Blogger. A bit jaded. Recovering cynic.

Longer: This blog favours a vision of nursing that values nurses and allows nurses to provide safe, competent and evidence-based care to their patients, and to practice at their full potential.

I view the health care system with a great deal of scepticism; I’m especially suspicious of consultant-driven “reform”, managerial incompetence and boobery masquerading as being “change leadership”, all forms of human-resource-speak that devalues and demeans nurses, and general wastefulness.

But I am not willing to drink the Kool-Aid of nursing leaders (and managers) who think if we wish hard enough and have positive, nice thoughts, we’ll live in a happier world. That’s called magical thinking, and it’s commonly practised by children and psychiatric patients. Simple enough, eh?

LATEST ARTICLES ( 214 )

Some Notes About Nothing

So. I didn’t get the job. When Human Resources called at last, I did get a version of the much-mocked praise sandwich:Top Slice — Praise: ”The Hiring Committee... Read more
Posted on 11 March 2011 DIARIES, HEALTH, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION
Yep, It Was a Disaster

Nurse K had an interesting take on my blog post the other day about dealing with an over-crowded ED: it was a disaster, pure and simple:In short [she writes] if... Read more
Posted on 09 March 2011 DIARIES, HEALTH, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION
The Eternal Flame

Scenes from a dissipated childhood, courtesy of 15 and Falling, an anti-smoking campaign aimed at adolescents brought out by the Nova Scotia Department of Healt... Read more
Posted on 05 March 2011 DIARIES, HEALTH, MARKETING & ADVERTISING, SELF EXPRESSION
Favourite Poems XXXII

Slithy Toves GyringhereWikipediaParsons describes the work’s “logical non-sense” as a “semiotic catastrophe”, since the words create a discernible narrative... Read more
Posted on 05 March 2011 CULTURE, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION
My New Motto

I had a very pleasant dinner the other night with an old friend I went to school with, and whom I literally hadn’t seen for years. We didn’t have a falling off... Read more
Posted on 04 March 2011 DIARIES, HEALTH, LIFESTYLE, SELF EXPRESSION
A Journal Article a Week (25/02/11): “Handover Process from the Emergency...

One in a series of journal article reviews. Yep, I’m late, again, but what the hey. You can sign up for the journal article a week challenge at Rob Fraser’s... Read more
Posted on 03 March 2011 DIARIES, HEALTH, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION
You Want a Coffee With That Bedpan? How About a French Cruller?

Speaking of which. Call it the donutification* of health care. (For my American readers, Tim Horton’s is a coffee/donut shop which is close to being a national... Read more
Posted on 03 March 2011 DIARIES, HEALTH, SELF EXPRESSION
In Which I Lose It, Just a Little, Over Emergency Department Overcrowding

My style as charge nurse could be described thusly: keep it smooth, keep it light. No fuss, no muss, no stress. Don’t worry about the externalities. Embrace... Read more
Posted on 02 March 2011 DIARIES, HEALTH, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION
All I Can Manage Today Are Random Thoughts

Just can’t get into the groove today: started two blog posts and after writing a couple of paragraphs, they both look like gibberish to me. Read more
Posted on 24 February 2011 DIARIES, HEALTH, SELF EXPRESSION
Happy Hour FAIL

From The P.A.R.T.Y Program’s YouYube page — I saw this video at the trauma conference I attended a couple of weeks ago. More information on The P.A.R.T.Y... Read more
Posted on 21 February 2011 SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH
A Journal Article a Week (11/02/11): Mentoring in Emergency Care: ‘growing Our...

Okay, this is late, and apologies to my co-conspirators Terri Schmitt and Rob Fraser, who challenges to every nurse to read a journal article a week is still... Read more
Posted on 17 February 2011 HEALTH
What Nursing Leadership Looks Like

Let’s talk about the qualities of leadership. A little while ago I was at a nursing function, and the speaker was a nursing leader I tremendously respect. Read more
Posted on 16 February 2011
“What You Don’t Want to Hear Me Say at Triage”

[A rerun. I will be back tomorrow. Really. Slightly modified; first posted 27/01/2010.]“Let me see if I can find a bed for you right away.”“You look a bit... Read more
Posted on 15 February 2011 HEALTH, MEDICINE
“Saving JM from The Republic of Health Care Stupid”

[A rerun, first posted 03/01/2010. Things have improved with the Home First program. I am returning tomorrow.]It’s been my firm belief in life that picking up... Read more
Posted on 15 February 2011 HEALTH

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