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Continue reading →: When Everyone Wants You at OnceOne of the hardest parts of bedside nursing isn’t the skills. It’s the feeling of being pulled—by alarms, by families, by colleagues, by your own conscience. You can be in Room 12 helping someone to the bathroom. At the same time, your pager asks about a blood result. Meanwhile, a…
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Continue reading →: The Two-Minute Reset That Saves My ShiftThere’s a moment in almost every shift where I can feel my brain start to fragment. The call bells stack up like unread messages. Someone needs pain meds. Another person needs toileting. A family member wants an update “right now.” Meanwhile, the charting window is blinking at me like an…
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Continue reading →: Exploitation Disguised as Opportunity: A Nursing Home CrisisThis is the part people in healthcare are saying out loud more and more, especially those working in nursing homes: the system keeps asking for more, giving less, and dressing exploitation up as opportunity. People are expected to solve problems they did not create. Take on duties they were never…
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Continue reading →: The White Coat Means Nothing Without RespectThere is a particular kind of presence that unsettles a nursing home floor almost instantly. It is not urgency. It is not expertise. It is not leadership. It is ego. You see it in the medical student who walks onto the ward without greeting anyone. Who moves from patient to…
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Continue reading →: Who Covers A Caregiver?A colleague once said something to me that I have never forgotten. She looked at me and said, “When I am sick and old, I would want you to take care of me.” I looked at her and, honestly, I did not know what to say. As a Christian, my…
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Continue reading →: Nurses; The Quiet SaintsNursing doesn’t feel like a calling when you’re running on four hours of sleep. The ward already smells like disinfectant and warm porridge. It doesn’t feel poetic during the handover. It is a blur of names, risks, and wound photos. There are instructions like “watch her fluids,” and “he’s been…
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Continue reading →: Off The ClockI used to think the day ended when the shift ended. Clock out. Hand over. Wash hands. Walk out the doors. But if you’ve ever worked in care, you already know that’s not how it goes. Some days the work follows you home in your shoulders. In your jaw. In…
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