What is moral injury (burnout) like…

This is graphic, it is pain and hurt coming out, Read at your own peril It was Wednesday when my boss called me to his office for a little “chat.”  Lisa had come up with another list of complaints (she was getting quite good at these since I think she spent more time watching me …

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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 …

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My ass hurts…

  No really, it does.  So as part of my health scare, I am now at one week of no soda, lower and sensible carb intake, and no snacks.  This is, of course, a change and my body really fucking hates me.  I don’t care.  I am comfortable that I may be lumpy in places, …

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Yeah, I am “that provider…”

Obviously, I have experience as a nurse and have moved on to become a nurse practitioner. In that program, we spend a great deal of time both with assessment and diagnostics (obviously since in the end we will ordering some type of treatment).  Well, I developed chest pain in the afternoon that was very sharp …

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