Tag: nursing
member name: Debbie G.
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August 18, 2009 12:56 PM EDT --
Phengphang
Crossed the mountains fleeing with her children and her husband fell and got up in the dark.
By the time I knew her her oldest spoke some English. Left some notes and on one day her mother's . . .
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March 25, 2008 10:27 AM EDT --
I dream sometimes
dressed in scrubs.
Defibrillator charging and discharged
bringing life back.
Giving that second chance.
I dream and win that second chance
healing myself.
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May 12, 2009 01:49 PM EDT --
During the chest compressions on concrete. Twice.
On carpet in homes. Neighbors, not hospice patients. Let's see.
Gunshot once. Stroke. Thats two. Baby respiratory arrest.
Three times there . . .
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October 17, 2008 04:56 PM EDT --
My days routinely started by criss-crossing through the M etroplex to visit the terminally ill patients under my care. There were no cell phones then. There were beepers. Invariably right in the middle . . .
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March 14, 2009 01:20 AM EDT --
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly directed by Julian Schnabel won four Academy Awards in 2008. I couldn't watch all of it. The fine photography made the reality of Jean-Dominque Bauby's locked-in . . .
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October 03, 2006 01:19 PM EDT --
Coffee burning dry
barely notice, rushing
Defibrillator.
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November 11, 2007 03:46 PM EST --
Remember also
the nurses who served
binding wounds gently
While explosions rocked their world.
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June 14, 2007 01:52 PM EDT --
I am outraged and physically ill after reading, and hearing about this woman's death. An ICU and trauma nurse for over 20 years, tears are flowing that any member of my profession could . . .
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July 07, 2009 11:41 AM EDT --
By the time you finish your twelve hour shifts it will have been two days since you spent time with your infant daughter. As badly as I miss being able to work, I know how wrong that feels. I know that . . .
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July 14, 2009 02:00 PM EDT --
It's the kind of day I used to wish for a day off.
Sunny, but not too hot with a breeze that borders on wind.
I'd exit the hospital with a tinge of regret at having missed this kind of day.
No . . .
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