Nursing is defined by providing care for the sick, further defined by Florence Nightingale as utilizing our environment to provide care for the sick to aid in their recovery. Even back in 1856, Nightingale saw the connections between environment and health, health and community, community and environment: “The health of the unity is the health […]
The Question of a Funeral
Kristen dies suddenly on a Sunday night. We hear about it on Monday when her younger sister Jeannie comes in for dialysis, but Kristen doesn’t. Kristen was eight-years-old, and shared a genetic defect with Jeannie. Both girls require dialysis and need kidney transplants. Transplants are costly, even with insurance, so their […]
Howl
Gallows humor and a healthy level of dissociation when necessary have carried me far in my career. During my nights in the ICU a decade ago I learned these as helpful tools of the trade. Death was all around us and we did our best to strip it off with our scrubs […]
Love in the Time of Covid
The blue-haired girl didn’t love him, not really. At least, that’s how Christian, our Mormon cowboy guide, rationalizes her betrayal—her midnight fornication with his best friend in the flatbed of her F-150, the truck he helped get running after two years stagnant in the fields, pack rats eating its soul. He was going to marry […]
“a reflection break,” “to imagine the impossible,” & “a writing exercise”
Sally Helmi, 2020, I Don’t Know How Much Longer We Can Do This. “a reflection break”, 2020 the experiences that i am a part of are so intense that i often don’t know how to navigate how much space they hold in me and how long they can live in me. despite how exhausting being […]
The Thantorium & Santa Monica
You think it won’t happen to you because you are too smart for that. Your life, your terms. You think? “Just put me on the iceberg when I can’t clean my own ass” you say, tossing back a Manhattan, thinking that’s a pretty funny joke that we are like Eskimos. <Are we sure they even […]
Rehab Workers are on the Front Lines, Too
Like everyone else on the front lines during these bizarre times, we all go through daily scares and tensions, but it’s a bit of a different ballgame when you’re dealing with mental illness. Most of our patients are clinically paranoid, delusional, depressed, suicidal, hostile, etc. as it is, but COVID-19 has been heightening these for […]
Endless Stories We Tell
The summer closes as Covid cases skyrocket. Interviews with exhausted healthcare workers again dominate our media. But now, vying for the attention of our capricious conscience is Afghanistan. Like the virus we tried to convince ourselves we conquered, this country we deemed our enemy will not be vanquished. The images of the desperate flooding the […]
The Question of a Funeral
Kristen dies suddenly on a Sunday night. We hear about it on Monday when her younger sister Jeannie comes in for dialysis, but Kristen doesn’t. Kristen was eight-years-old and shared a genetic defect with Jeannie. Both girls require dialysis and need kidney transplants. Transplants are costly, even with insurance, so their parents held a fundraising […]
One More Scoop: Increased Demands on Nursing During a Pandemic
Nursing is defined by providing care for the sick, further defined by Florence Nightingale as utilizing our environment to provide care for the sick to aid in their recovery. Even back in 1856, Nightingale saw the connections between environment and health, health and community, community and environment: “The health of the unity […]
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