Tapping my foot at the Grand Ole Opry

December 12, 2011
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Has Christmas gone crazy?

December 7, 2011

If you ask me I would say yes – no one talks about the reason for Christmas very much, just what gift they are getting for themselves or someone. It seems so selfish. It has gone crazy! The commercials started with Black Friday like it was a marathon race. Shopping parties and teams are set [...]

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Two Steppin in Krogers

December 1, 2011

If you were in Kroger's yesterday afternoon shopping for last minute items before the snow reports – you would have been able to easily to pick me out of the crowd. I had gotten an email right before I went in the store that my book "The Nurse Voice" was now available in hard copy [...]

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Nurse – A Day in the Life of a Nurse

November 28, 2011

Holidays are something a nurse misses with her own family. The work schedules are long, and most of the time out of control of the nurse. People are still sick on holidays and someone has to be there for them. For 21.5 years that was me and what my schedule looked like. I can count [...]

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Holiday Blues: Thanksgiving has been canceled

November 23, 2011

       Yes, it is true Thanksgiving has been canceled. I just got the memo today. Well maybe not canceled but the stress of the holiday blues started the second week of November. People seem to become so focused on what they have to do – and where they have to take food they [...]

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What is a Patient

November 21, 2011

Our Patients are the most important people ever in our care systems, either in person or otherwise. Our Patients are not only dependent on us, but we are also dependant on them in the mutual exchange of goal setting to establish the most appropriate treatment program. Our Patients are not an interruption of our work [...]

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You and I are not all that different

November 17, 2011

You and I by Elaine Popovich I am a resident. You reside. I am admitted. You move in. I have behavior problems. You are rude. I am non-compliant. You don’t like to be told what to do. When I ask you to dinner, it is an outing. When you ask someone out, it is a [...]

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Nurses Learn the Deeper Secrets in life through their Patients

November 14, 2011

Walking in the doors for the very first time as a 23 year old small framed female stacked with attitude, She had no idea what the mental ill were about to start teaching her. She was there for a paycheck, not a retiring career. That young girl was freshly divorced, and bouncing into another relationship [...]

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