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RuthI'm an engineer, artist, mom, wife, and registered nurse. I work on an inpatient psych unit and live in the Pacific NW USA with my husband and our menagerie of dog, parrots, cats, and a couple of corn snakes.

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Archive for 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.

Safe Zone…?

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 [...]

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 [...]