Monthly Archives: July 2008

The Whole (almost) Family

The Whole (almost) Family Originally uploaded by Geek2Nurse This is everybody but Ryan (my oldest) and Felicity, gathered in Galveston for Mom & Dad’s 50th anniversary. Click through to Flickr for labels telling who each person is.

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Safe Zone…?

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I was just browsing some of my old Flickr photos and realized I had never shared this one on my blog. It still makes me giggle. This was taken from the back parking lot where I used to work, at the Tuality Forest Grove Hospital Geropsych Unit. During my new employee orientation there, they told me that if we ever had to evacuate the unit due to fire, we were supposed to round up the patients and gather everyone at the light pole in the back parking lot. “You mean … Continue reading

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Medically Stable

There’s always a pause in the activities in the nurse’s station when the anonymous voice comes over the loudspeaker urgently summoning the “rapid response team” to a patient’s room. Somewhere in the hospital, a nurse has sensed that a patient has taken a turn for the worse, and has called for help. Our pulses quicken slightly, our breathing becomes shallow, and there is a brief lull while we wait…the lives of other humans are daily in our hands, and the thought of losing one of them is one that fills … Continue reading

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