5 More Great Nurse Theme Songs! Double Bonus Tracks!
Wow, so many songs! Thanks, everybody! Melissa Friedman, BA, BSN, RN offers “Nursing is my second career. I have a BA in Accounting and spent over 14 years in Finance and got burned out. I quit and...
View ArticleNurses: Is Your Workplace Competency Management Competently Managed?
I encountered an interesting question today: how is nursing competency measured at your workplace? Are the measurement tools and training relevant, accurate, effective, useful? In short, do you find...
View ArticleNurse Theme Songs: An Idea That Will Never Die!
Perhaps ;). I still have a backlog in my Green Room. Nurses have SO many great ideas, it’s hard to keep track! I apologize for any I might miss, as they’re coming in through many different social media...
View Article5 Ways Music Heals and Delights: Find Out How
Fun and serious, music and medicine. The boundaries aren’t so sharp as they seem, now, are they? The boundaries are in our minds. Reality is continuous, and those who face reality as it is – not how...
View ArticleNurse Theme Songs: The Lost Tunes!
So I was looking in my vast and unruly WordPress draft pile, and I ran into a nurse theme song post that got lost in the shuffle somehow. There have been LOT of songs: it was over 50 published prior to...
View ArticleNurses: Why are EMRs and Bluetooth Such Total Crap?
Inferior technology offends me. With so much talent and so many miraculous tools widely available, for a company to dare to try to trick people into buying crap… I get angry just typing the words. I...
View ArticlePowerhouse Nurse Bloggers Return!!!
It’s a weekly ritual I really like: sharing other great nurse blogger’s work! Lorie Brown talks up fitness and FitBits in Fitbits in Nursing: 2. Donna Carol Maheady offers us Are You a Resilient Nurse?...
View ArticleMore Tunes! Nurse Themes Songs Will Never Die
Usually, I’d consider such a statement outlandish. Never die, really? Yet I keep thinking it’s ebbing, and it keeps bouncing back – over 51 songs on the books at Nurses’ Playlist: ALL the Theme Songs...
View ArticleTime Travel, and An Award Accepted Via Time Travel
I travel in time every work day, at least twice. I travel back a decade or two whenever I need to use EMR programs, and come back whenever I use up to date software, say on my phone or computer at...
View ArticleNurse Blog Carnival Self Care for Nurses – Marsha Battee
This month’s Carnival is a monster: LOTS of great advice for nurses on self-care and success: Nurse Blog Carnival Self Care for Nurses – Marsha BatteeFiled under: Healthy Mind, Info Etc., RN Tagged:...
View ArticleTunesday: More Nurse Theme Songs!
So I had a bit of a vacation, with some crisis and disaster thrown in: I wouldn’t want life to get too boring, and reality often doesn’t much care what I think in any case. Nobody got hurt except my...
View ArticleBig Red Links #40 : A Dozen Great Mental Health Links!
I brought back the “Big Red Links” series because it was getting hard to keep track of these link posts without it. Unlike the past series of the same name, I no longer plan to include three link...
View ArticleNurses more likely to suffer emotional exhaustion by working 12 hour shifts...
Source: Nurses more likely to suffer emotional exhaustion by working 12 hour shifts or longer – Medical News TodayFiled under: RN
View ArticleProblems and Solutions for Nurses: Big Red Links #41
We’ll see how this theme works out on its maiden voyage: let me know, please! Problem: Group ranks Montgomery as the most sexually diseased city. What would your guess be? Problem and Radical Solution:...
View ArticleLet’s Have A Nurse Party That Never Ends!!! The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly…
We’ve had some great fun with the Nurse Theme Song idea, haven’t we? We’ve gathered 74 songs so far, you and me have: Nurses’ Playlist: ALL the Theme Songs So Far. More await in my Green Room. I’m...
View ArticleAnother Nurse Blogger Extravaganza!
An eclectic and informative mix, as usual from this fine group of nurse bloggers (and me). Enjoy! Rachel Danford Silva offers Obesity: The perfect Storm 2. Anne Llewellyn offers We Will Never Forget:...
View ArticleMiss Colorado Versus The View: She Matters. They Don’t.
A very unusual thing happened at the Miss America Pageant last Sunday evening. A contestant offered content that matters! It was Kelley Johnson – AKA Miss Colorado – who skipped the usual song and...
View ArticleFlush the View: Here’s How
First off, I have no idea how this stunt will go. It’s success entirely on you and others like you. If it’s not for you, I understand. I trust you to choose for yourself. Some background first: I won’t...
View ArticleEllen DeGeneres Celebrates Nurses and Says Thank You To Nurse Kelley Johnson, RN
Originally posted on Caring For The Caregiver offered by Phyllis Quinlan, PhD, RN-BC:Listen To Kelly Johnson share that Ellen is able to be funny without offending anyone… Miss Colorado had so many...
View ArticleErratum: Video Delayed
I hoped to post my video response to The View today, but a ten-hour drive took all the stuffing out of me. Tomorrow. My apologies for the delay.Filed under: RN Tagged: advocacy, Nurse, nursing
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