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Those Nortriptyline Blehs 6 Jul 2012 | 01:11 am
Nortriptyline, according to Wikipedia, is a second-generation tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) marketed as the hydrochloride salt under the trade names Sensoval, Aventyl,Pamelor, Norpress, Allegron, No...
Privacy, judgment and ethics aside, I have caring to do. 4 Jul 2012 | 10:56 pm
A few years ago I cared for an acquaintance. She was a friend of a friend who had been living out of the country for several years, but had come home to visit family friends. She was rushed in to the ...
Charge Mommy 29 Jun 2012 | 09:54 pm
A few days ago, one of my colleagues said to me after a particularly frantic day in the ED, “You guys aren’t Charge Nurses, you’re Charge Mommies.” She is right. This is what we do: tell all the kids...
Treat the Patient Not the Disease 24 Jun 2012 | 10:02 pm
Abscesses and wounds, and especially abscesses and wounds which are infected, suppurative, purulent, and generally awful, are embarrassing for patients and difficult for nurses. Embarrassing for patie...
A Note about Alan Sullivan 18 Jun 2012 | 10:30 pm
Nearly two years ago, the poet and blogger Alan Sullivan died. His final project, a new translation of the Book of Psalms, has been published. The translation can be ordered here. His collaborator and...
Generation Gaps 16 Jun 2012 | 10:54 am
I recently took a course with nurses of varied years of experience and ages, but it was primarily made up of fairly new graduate nurses within the last year or two. During one lecture the facilitator ...
How Nurses Practice 14 Jun 2012 | 10:37 pm
Working on a PowerPoint presentation, and did up this (yet to be formatted) slide: Which column do you think represents the current state of nursing practice? Filed under: Good Nursing Practice i...
We Get No Respect 13 Jun 2012 | 10:13 pm
From Ian Miller at ImpactedNurse.com, a few thoughts on under-utilized and under-recognized senior nurses who are leaking out of the profession: Nursing has few opportunities for promotion and recogn...
Protect Your Love 10 Jun 2012 | 02:08 am
Via Osocio, a very likeable ad for HIV prevention and awareness from the Toronto-based Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention. Osocio notes the ad is less about sex than and more about love, and in ...
Favourite Poems LVII: Death 9 Jun 2012 | 09:20 pm
The first two lines — “Because I could not stop for Death,/He kindly stopped for me” — must be among the greatest opening lines of any poem. Death Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stop...
