Archive for the ‘Nursing’ Category

• Looking back

  Saturday, September 5th, 2009

  I guess as we live longer we forget things and I am guilty of this. I meant to write an anniversary post last month but with somethings going on in my life I just forgot. Looking back over the year that I have been blogging it has been times of frustration, pride, and joy. I [...]

• A Storm is Brewing

  Thursday, July 16th, 2009

  I never thought in a million years that I would be defending an employer who had treated me poorly but in this case I must speak out loudly. Some bleeding hearts are crying foul because forensic patients at Alvarado Parkway Institute are being shackled to the bed and the poor darlings can’t watch television, have [...]

• All the pusher aren’t in the streets

  Saturday, June 20th, 2009

  The business world continues to see corrupt companies with money operate even if the products they tout are ineffective.   Eli Lilly, a company that has been in business for many years, is now being sued for pushing doctors to recommend Zyprexa. This drug is meant to be used for the treatment of schizophrenia and [...]

• Are Nursing Ethics Old School

  Friday, April 10th, 2009

  Having retired from a profession I loved after 40 plus years, I miss it. But I wonder if I had a chance to work again, would my work ethics be too old school for today’s world? This is also echoed by others in other professions who are around the same age as me.   I [...]

• Retirement is for the birds

  Friday, January 9th, 2009

  I can’t believe it! This March it will be five years since I stopped struggling out of bed at 9:45pm to get to work at 11:00pm. No more working long, cold nights on wards poorly staffed while being underpaid and under appreciated. But I miss it and would give up fighting Medicare for everything I [...]