Reflections of a Flight Nurse, Paramedic, Skydiver, and Army Reserve Commander
Posted in Nurse Practitioner on Apr 29th, 2005
My NP license finally came through from the state. Damn if waiting for all of that paperwork wasn’t a pain in the ass. I didn’t think being about to write orders under my own name would be too big of a deal. It is a HUGE deal!
Spent some time with [...]
Posted in Daily Notes on Apr 27th, 2005
How strange to have a day off in the middle of the week. I have to say that I have gone through the day feeling fairly lost. Breakfast with mom this morning was a good change of pace.
Running errands was tedious but necessary. I was able to drop my jewelry [...]
Posted in Nurse Practitioner on Apr 27th, 2005
“Let the NP do it.”
That was what the unit secretary told us the resident said when she called him with a direct admission.
Turfed an admission to the NP…because he was sleeping. At 1:00 pm. I guess I need to do a much better job at educating the residents as to my role. [...]
Posted in TechNerd Stuff on Apr 25th, 2005
Sorry, didn’t realize that that comment and track back pop up window font colors were all screwed up. Guess it is time for some house keeping on the ol’ blog on Wednesday (I have a day off!!)
Posted in Nursing on Apr 24th, 2005
After a bit of a delay, my article on Necrotizing Fasciitis was finally published the January issue of Critical Care Nursing Quarterly (Vol 28, No 1, pg. 80). Why NF? My sister suggested it one afternoon during a phone call that I initiated due to my lack of ability to come up with [...]
Posted in Nursing on Apr 24th, 2005
Is SimMan really worth $42,000? We had one of these bad boys in our nursing lab at UPenn and I have to say that I was just not impressed. After an hour of use, the heart sounds, lung sounds and bowel sounds were memorized and the fact that the chest moved was no longer [...]
Posted in Nurse Practitioner on Apr 24th, 2005
Although it feels like most of my time in my new role as an NP has been devoted to reading everything I can about state law in reference to prescriptive authority, collaborative agreements and the like, a clinical focus has emerged.
An old crusty CNS I will refer to as M.M. cornered me during my first [...]
Posted in Nurse Practitioner on Apr 24th, 2005
After spending time both in the Army as a flight medic and now working with the ortho-trauma population, posts like this one about pain control techniques used in the military from blogborygmi really interest me.
Posted in Daily Notes on Apr 24th, 2005
Over the past few months, I have acquired a collection of flagged posts from the 40+ blogs I frequent. (Have I mentioned how much I love FeedDemon?). Now that I have passed my boards and have settled into a routine, I have realized that I am far behind in with my intention of [...]
Posted in Nurse Practitioner on Apr 17th, 2005
For the past days, and weeks actually, I have been attempting to formulate an appropriate method for expressing/discussing my professional progression. This is under the shadow of bloggers being fired from their jobs, and the yet to be seen, backlash of medical/nursing bloggers discussing patient interactions and scenarios.
My desire to discuss my [...]
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