Stu's Soliloquy
So stu, you may ask, what gives with the lackness of blogging thereof? I ask myself the same question, O Faithful Reader of House Calls. The main reason I lack is because it is morning, I've been up for the last 12 hours at work, night shift, and my brain is tired. But last night was great, helped patients with various meds and in getting admitted and upstairs to make way for: the next patient. My bud (RN) I'll call "T" is from Nigeria, and we see eye-to-eye on most Emergency Room issues, from slack employees to rediculous policy to crazy patients.

I did read this AM at NYTimes that there is a fiction contest, with contestants submitting manuscripts online, sort of a thinking man's youtube. The prize is a book contract and $5k. Too bad I'm not much of a fiction writer, but maybe you are, so check it out.

I'd guess the biggest mistake folks make when pondering the work of an ER nurse, and RN that is, is thinking that we are always wizzing some trauma patient down the hall on a gurney, spouting out a trail of medical terminology to the doctor, enroute to surgery. That's because we have about 1% of that kind of stuff. The other 99% is abdominal pain, bleeding from different orifices, headaches, chest pain, and poor health in general from a lifetime of smoking and drinking alcohol. One blogger I read stated that patients should have to wait one hour in the waiting room for each year they have smoked or drank. Sounds reasonable.

SO now I bid y'all goodnight, and please read a Month In the Life today for an inside look at a Bible professor's life teaching students who, well, swim in puddles.