By Jacob Molyneux, senior editor
Here are a few recent posts of interest at various nursing blogs:
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In the throes of nursing school: An intriguing little pastiche of a poem (does it qualify as a ‘found word’ poem?) can be found at a newish blog, adrienne, {student} nurse, in a short post called anatomy of a bath. In another post, she makes the following observations: “In nursing school, you are not driving the train…You absolutely must keep telling yourself that there is nothing wrong with you.”
Preventing delirium in the ICU: At the INQRI blog (the blog of the Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Institute), a post summarizes some recent research on implementing a “bundle” of practices to increase mobility and reduce sedation in the ICU, all in order to prevent patient delirium, which is known to have many short- and long-term negative effects.
The luxury of time. At Love and Ladybits, the author gets a tantalizing glimpse of the quality of care she’d be able to provide if she had more time to spend with each patient. Of course, this “alternative reality” can’t last, but perhaps it can serve as a touchstone of sorts during more hectic times.
The past is present. At Head Nurse, there’s a somewhat rueful post about an unexpected encounter, years later, with the author’s least favorite nursing professor (“Everybody has one of those instructors–the ones whose classes make you yearn for the sweet release of death, or at least a nice case of vascular dementia”).
If it ain’t broke. We hear a lot about what’s not working in health care, about errors, inefficiencies, and much much worse. But who stops and considers what actually didn’t go wrong, what was actually accurate, insightful, correct, better and not worse, or simply good enough? There’s an awful lot, if you stop to consider it, and here’s a post at Nursetopia that advocates a little gratitude for just this fact.
Thank you, Jacob, for this excursion through some posts I might otherwise have missed in a busy week. I particularly appreciated the reflections of both adrienne and Head Nurse on the woes of the student nurse. I know just the suffering student nurse to recommend them to . . .