Posted on 12/16/2007 3:51:04 AM PST by 60Gunner
ER Nursing Stories after a Long Dry Spell Ping!
Bump.
Both of my older kids have done it both years. They turn in a “preferred” list and the school matches them up with the available shadow jobs the best they can.
Two of the four jobs have been in the local hospital. To most high school students the inside workings of a hospital can be a bit eye opening.
Good post on Nursing, thanks, Merry Christmas & HNY!
Had my mother been such, I doubt that I would have been able to easily give up either, but I had no such choice.
She came close, but passed horribly at 86.
Thank you for your work and your erudite post.
Reading your post brings back the memories of my early life. I was married to a nurse who took it all too seriously. I waited endless nights in the car while she worked two hours over (in the age before cell phones). She brought her first patient home, a young boy from 50 miles out in rural WV, who had no kidney function. We dialyzed him at home for the four years he lived with us. I thought it was noble at the time.
She became a practitioner and became even more consumed. We eventually divorced because there were only the patients in her life.
She befriended one patient who was a man of color and eventually wound up in a hospital jail for a few years for cocaine distribution. She made the 400 mile roundtrip every other weekend to visit him, much to the astonishment of her new hubby, also a nurse.
He moved from the prison to her home. New hubby put up with it for a short while then divorced her just before she donated her own kidney to this man. The man died of a heart attack polishing the rims on his “hoopty” a couple of years later.
Her patients love her, but everyone she is related to is just not so sure.
Thank you for this installment. It is fascinating reading.
Yeah, I cry sometimes for my patients. It's heartbreaking to see some of the cases that come through the door. But God is my healer, and so I am not afraid to care.
Absolutely beautiful!
“nonogenarian ... I wonder how many of your esteemed readers know that word right off the bat.”
My mother is one.
I sincerely admire you. You are a gifted soul.
Thanks for a great post
Merry Christmas to you and your family
Regards
alfa6 ;.}
All I can say is, "There must be some lucky patients out there."
It is a great joy when you have a student who is genuinely interested in what you are teaching.
I hope you expressed some gentle condemnation of the ANA and the state surrogates who demand government control of medicime
Merry Christmas.
The medical profession is a funny thing. It attracts the very best and the worst of humanity. The most altruistic and the money grubbers. Those that hate pain, but dive in every day, and those that revel in the pain and suffering of others.
Those that see the ravages of drugs and alcohol, and learn, and those that are consumed in their pursuit.
We may all be Argonauts that must be strapped to the mast to pass the Sirens who tempt us. And there are more Sirens than we can know.
Non? (actually in this crowd, most)
Fantastic post as always. Thanks!
When will your book be published?
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