Category: Nursing Issues
Jacks or Better to Open…
There is no card deck in my workroom or at the nurses’ station on our unit. Last night I started the shift with a rapid response. If you don’t know what they are, it is when a patient’s condition has rapidly changed and not for good. It is still always strange to be the one …
Shouting into the void…
Do you ever feel that way? Like you are shouting, and you don’t even hear your echo? Well, welcome to me on this topic about medication errors and the Vanderbilt Nurse, RaDonda Vaught. Ok, what the actual hell is going on here? Why is she being charged with murder? The whole NPR article is here: …
Welcome to the graveyard shift…
The 'graveyard watch' version of the phrase was generally used by sailors on watch - hardly a group in a position to supervise buried coffins. The graveyard link was made explicit in this definition, offered by the American mariner Gershom Bradford, in A Glossary of Sea Terms, 1927: "Graveyard watch, the middle watch or 12 …