Tag: medical
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No longer a nurse.
Waypoint: There is the adage that everyone dies twice. The first time when you physically die…and the second time when your name is spoken for the last time. It kinda feels like that with the end of a nursing career. The first end is when you retire….the second is when you decline to renew your…
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Aware II paper on Near Death Experience available as pre-print.
A pre-print version of the Aware II paper is now available online. The final version may get locked away behind a paywall so its worth grabbing a copy now if interested: Awareness During Resuscitation – II: A Multi-Center Study of Consciousness and Awareness in Cardiac Arrest (PDF) The AWARE and AWARE II studies attempted an…
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Nurse as Expert.
A long, but important quote from Iain McGilchrist’s groundbreaking book ‘The Matter With Things. My review here. In the world of nursing, Patricia Benner notes that becoming an expert means shifting from abstract principles to seeing intuitively the patient before you in relation to other real-life experiences, and noting similarities and differences. She also emphasises…
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Doowop da doobee doo
COVID isolation: Day 6 Not much to report. Pretty much everything the same as day 5. Except without the waffles. Oh, and there may (or may not) have been a live performance of a heavy metal / punk interpretation of the complete soundtrack to Grease. Do not be alarmed. This is perfectly normal COVID related…
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