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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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Get Me the Frickin’ Goat!
If only there was a magic goat. Part of an advertising campaign from the Nova Scotia Ministry of Health Promotion and Protection aimed at reducing harm from hig... Read more
Posted on 18 July 2011 DIARIES, HEALTH, HUMOR, RANDOM, SELF EXPRESSION -
Triage
The world in four patients, plus interruptions.Who’s next? Come in.Do you have your Health Card?Take off your hoodie and sit down. What brings you in today?Wher... Read more
Posted on 17 July 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Three Strikes and You’re Out, and By Out, I Mean Dead
This story was plastered above the fold in yesterday’s print edition of the Toronto Star:Gleb Alfyorov thought he was going to a hospital for help. Read more
Posted on 16 July 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Yep, Still Have A Pulse
My unintentional hiatus will have to continue for a few couple more days, anyway, so apologies to my regular readers and friends. Read more
Posted on 12 July 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Happy Canada Day
And all that. No Cobourg frolic this year, unfortunately, just work, work, workThe dearth of posts the past week is not for lack of trying — have several... Read more
Posted on 01 July 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Flash Mob Bares Breasts, Somewhere Prudes Are Moaning
For a good cause, of course:A bold group of mothers gave a new meaning to the term ‘flashmob’ when they bared their breasts at a major shopping center today to... Read more
Posted on 25 June 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Favourite Poems XL
For the fortieth poem in the series, something a little different. Okay, not seasonal, but what the hell. (The Simpsons’ classic version can be found here. Read more
Posted on 25 June 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Friday Night Flicks: The Mountain
I’ve seen this short by TSO Photography a few times now, and it hasn’t grown old yet. Read more
Posted on 25 June 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
The Most Useless Form on the Planet
Imagine this: you’ve had the shift from hell, no beds, every other patient is moments away from seeing Jesus/Allah/Buddha and to top it off, the department is... Read more
Posted on 24 June 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
I’ve Been Selected for a Not-So-Clever Marketing Scheme
This blog has been named as one of the ”20 Best Blog for Nurses” by that august institution, Jacksonville University School of Nursing. Read more
Posted on 23 June 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
New Contract Beats Up on Ontario Nurses
On 3 June 2011, an arbitration panel handed down the new contract for the majority of Ontario hospital nurses. The panel was set up when negotiations between th... Read more
Posted on 23 June 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
How to Clear Out a Waiting Room
A couple of weeks ago we had a spectacularly bad day, traumas, codes, STEMIs, septic shock, status asthmaticus, what have you, plus (of course) a department... Read more
Posted on 21 June 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Time for the Talk
A tried and true (if tedious) bait and switch routine to draw attention to a serious issue. Synchronicity is a weird and wonderful thing. Read more
Posted on 18 June 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Favourite Poems XXXIX
The story of how Coleridge came to write this famous poem is probably too well known to bear repeating (but nonetheless is found here, for example. Read more
Posted on 18 June 2011 SELF EXPRESSION -
Bad Nurse! Bad!
I guess my venting, raging post the other day offended and/or ticked some people off, or at least the use of the strong language did. Read more
Posted on 15 June 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Why I Garden
So I was away from this blog for a few days. Not intentionally, I hasten to add: but sometimes, it must be admitted, unintentional absences are the best. Read more
Posted on 14 June 2011 DIARIES, GARDENING, HOME, SELF EXPRESSION -
In Which I Swear, Repeatedly, Or, TorontoEmerg Gets Bullied
I write this blog for a number of reasons: my own amusement, to educate, to share various random thoughts, to tell stories, to stimulate discussion on topics... Read more
Posted on 13 June 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Five Feet of Fabulous!
Your colon, of course. What else? A funny, retro animation produced by the Canadian Cancer Society to start a colonversation on colon health. Read more
Posted on 28 May 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Favourite Poems XXXVIII
Because everyone, even nurses, deserve poetry.Silent NoonYour hands lie open in the long fresh grass,– The finger-points look through like rosy blooms: Your eye... Read more
Posted on 28 May 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION -
Don’t Tell Your Patient This. Or That.
Jo over at Head Nurse had an interesting question about a month ago. She was prepping for an interview for a Reader’s Digest article called “50 Things Your Nurs... Read more
Posted on 26 May 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION