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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 )
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Why Nurses Are Furious About the Amanda Trujillo Case
The case of Amanda Trujillo has generated a great deal of passionate commentary across the nursing blogosphere. Trujillo, as you may well know, is the nurse... Read more
Posted on 07 February 2012 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
A Paean to ED Nurses Or Just Annoying?
Twitter follower @camillelalonde — thank you — sent me this oldish link, which initially warmed the very cockles of my heart:Guest Editorial ACEP News... Read more
Posted on 06 February 2012 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
What Breast Cancer Is and Is Not
Susan G. Komen Run for the Cure doesn’t have much of a direct presence on this side of the border, so I could watch the recent public relations train wreck... Read more
Posted on 05 February 2012 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Favourite Poems XLVI
Winter NightIt snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned. Read more
Posted on 04 February 2012 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Long Emergency Department Admissions Shorten Lives
Via ImpactedNurse.com, another study showing prolonged emergency department stays are less than optimal:There were 41,256 admissions from the ED. Mortality... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2012 MEDICINE -
A Little Nurse Bashing to Start Your Day
For breakfast, how about some outrageous libel from physician-blogger Terry Simpson (Twitter: @DocSimpson). File this under how not to blog about a serious issu... Read more
Posted on 02 February 2012 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
10 Questions for Banner Health
Lo, a Tweet from Banner Health on the Amanda Trujillo incident, and possibly the most content-free in the history of Twitter:Uh, huh. Read more
Posted on 01 February 2012 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Bedside Nursing as Menial and Demeaning
Ian Miller, blogging over at ImpactedNurse.com, notes a disturbing trend in Australia, one, I’m afraid, is becoming more common in North America. “These days,”... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2012 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
What the Amanda Trujillo Case Tells Me About Nurses Behaving Badly
Amanda Trujillo can take cold comfort that her situation is not unique. In the two years and odd months I have posted on this blog, I have written about six... Read more
Posted on 30 January 2012 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Voices For Amanda Trujillo
Each of them eloquently speaks to the heart of what we do as nurses — and why nurses find how Amanda Trujillo was fired and subsequently reported to the... Read more
Posted on 28 January 2012 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Favourite Poems XLV
An Old Man’s Winter NightAll out of doors looked darkly in at him Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars, That gathers on the pane in empty rooms. Read more
Posted on 28 January 2012 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
A Small Rant from Your Friendly X-ray Tech
A note sent to me from my favorite MRT (Medical Radiation Technologist). A reminder too, that nurses aren’t the center of the universe, even if we think we... Read more
Posted on 27 January 2012 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
The Persecution of Amanda Trujillo
In the ugly, gray world of hospital balance sheets it’s almost a commonplace that physicians generate revenue while nurses represent a cost. Read more
Posted on 25 January 2012 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Karma Sweet Karma
The latest instalment of Nurses Behaving Badly featured the night charge and the day charge (i.e. me) getting a status asthmaticus organized in Resus 1 a few... Read more
Posted on 22 January 2012 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Nurse, Interrupted
A pretty interesting video from Beth Boynton RN on what I call status interrupticus, the incessant and often needless interruptions nurses deal with when... Read more
Posted on 21 January 2012 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Favourite Poems XLIV
To a Locomotive in WinterThee for my recitative, Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day declining, Thee in thy panoply, thy measur’d... Read more
Posted on 21 January 2012 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Best of 2011
A little late for 2011 retrospectives, but, as I said, I was busy. First list: the most popular by hits. Second: my personal picks.10 Most Popular Posts (many o... Read more
Posted on 20 January 2012 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Dying Alone, Continued
Thanks to commenter Pagan Chaplain (Twitter ~ web) for pointing out the No One Dies Alone program, where volunteers under nursing supervision support patients... Read more
Posted on 19 January 2012 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
What Nursing Leadership Doesn’t Look Like
A small, belated Christmas tale on how not to manage an emergency department. But first a few preliminary points of information. Read more
Posted on 16 January 2012 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Dying Alone
A few weeks ago I had a patient named Helen who died. I’m not talking about a dramatic code or trauma, with people running around shouting for IV access, but... Read more
Posted on 09 January 2012 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION