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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 [...]
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Who is Really at Fault?
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
Most of my years in nursing were spent in the mental health field so I am familiar with the problems of caring for patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Upon hearing that a wrestling legend had killed his roommate, my heart went out to the families and to a man who can’t be held responsible for [...]
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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 [...]
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The strange twist in life’s Journey
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
My mother graduated high school and the following year I was born. There went her dreams of becoming an English teacher. For years I heard about those dreams and felt her regret coming from every pore.
My mom worked at many jobs always striving to do the best work that can be done. [...]
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Christmas Gifts
Thursday, December 25th, 2008
This is a wondrous time of the year. We often look at it as a time to get those things that are in store windows and touted by each news show and television commericial. But let me tell you what I got for Xmas. Something that will last me a lifetime and didn’t cost me [...]