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 …
Category: Nursing Issues
This week’s click bait is crap…
Someone in a small hospital in Missouri needs to lose their job. Straight up, you violated HIPPA you need to disclose yourself to the administrator and suffer disciplinary action. Why? Simple you violated the patient's right to privacy and allowed information about a patient to be reported without his consent. The video of …
Zen and the art of nursing maintenance…
Don’t worry we are not going to do motorcycle maintenance we are, however, going to chat about nursing Zen. The original book was written by Robert Pirsig in 1974 about a trip he took with his son Chris who was 12 in 1968 on a Motorcycle. Robert died in 2017, and Chris died in 1979. …
Yesterday, a solution…
So, since I was so rough on my fellow nurses and griped about it for two pages, here are some things that need to happen to stop this internal problem. First, would you want to be treated how you are treating that person? Before you start the line, “well I was treated this way,” answer …