Caring Lessons Now #6 In Chicago today, it's important to be Irish. We'll leave soon to watch the greening of the Chicago River. The streets below my study window are filling with dots of green T-shirted people. At the same time, people close to me are dealing with severe illnesses. Recently, a recipient of supposedly …
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Nurses: Counting drip rates? A lost art
It’s an overcast chilly day in Chicago, just the kind of day for a good joke. And I got one this morning from a former nursing student at Trinity Christian College, now a seasoned grad. She’d had a “crazy” day yesterday. Here’s why: Our primary IV tubing is on back order. This means we can't use …
A Healing Environment on an Inpatient Psychiatric Unit
"Our goal was to make this unit a healing environment," the RN said. She was leading our pre-opening tour of the inpatient psychiatric unit at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Healing. Her word caught my attention. She maybe didn’t know how healing it was just to hear her say they wanted their new milieu to …
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Emailing doctors – IN FAVOR!
Have you ever been beside yourself with some ache or pain? Have you ever felt helpless about getting help? Have you ever thought about crashing down the doors of the emergency room? Have you ever known you should not go to the ER because even though you felt like your situation was life or death, …
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