Tag: nursing
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Jaspers Koan.
So here is a story I wrote in 2017. I was working as an emergency department nurse, and wrote a blog about my life. Let me know in the comments if you would like to read some more. Jasper first presented to our Emergency Department one Friday evening after being found laying unresponsive on the…
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It’s all about the likes
My ego’s rushto debase my wealthWhen jealous of my former self. Checked my analytics this morning to see what sort of growth traffic this website has been getting, and accidentally logged into my old site at TheNursePath. To my ego’s dismay, it turns out that TheNursePath, a website I have not posted on since 2018…
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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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Jabbing the kids.
Another shift at the mass vaccination centre. Today Im doing the five to twelve year olds. I have learned much in the ways of Minecraft, and Spiderman, and Frozen. I have been educated in the fact that there are 16 unicorn stickers on the wall of my vaccination booth. And that I look like I…
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