Not-So-Happy Endings

As I mentioned in my "About" section of the Nurse's Refuge website, there was a particularly troubling code at work lately that took me...

Sometimes patients, both confused and oriented patients, think we do things just for the heck of it. Or for money, or for control, or for...

Nursing isn't just about saving or improving lives. Sometimes it's also about helping patients die with dignity. So many times, I've seen...

This is a sad one. It happened quite a while ago, maybe a couple years. I had a patient who had some kind of skin and tissue disease...

It was day shift, early in my career as a nurse, January 2020. I was still a code blue virgin, hadn't even witnessed one yet. I was on...