Tag: nursing
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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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Return to emergency nursing?
The short answer is thanks but no thanks. Yesterday I received an email from my old emergency department (where I worked for a little over 35 years before retiring) offering full and part-time positions. I think they must be super short-staffed* and struggling to cope with the winter workloads right now and looking to re-recruit…
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On the wall.
Visited Canberra Hospital today for the first time in a long, long while (to get a flu vaccination). My ego was appropriately chuffed to find a photo of me (a small part of a larger promotional mural) is still there in the hospitals main foyer. Lots of memories there of my time working in the…
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