Tag: healthcare
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🌤️ Sunshine Shift: A Reset We Didn’t Know We Needed
Yesterday felt…off.Maybe it was the thunderstorm coming, the gray skies, the heavy air–but my mood was definitely not it. Nothing major even happened.No emergencies.No chaos.No “drop everything, we need a nurse” moments. It was a stable Saturday…with an unstable mood. But today? Completely different story. The sun is out, there’s a nice breeze,and I’m sitting…
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Paradise Shift🌞: Don’t Get Too Comfortable
Back at it again. Different shift.Different unit.Different residents.Different vibe.and whew…. what a change of pace. Covering some vacation shifts and I’m not even going to lie — this feels like paradise. No major behaviors. Residents are mostly independent.And right now? We’ve got gospel reggae playing in the background and it’s a whole mood. Like….smooth sailing…
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The Final Shift: (Don’t Say the Q Word) 🤐
The double has officially started. And surprisingly… this morning has been calm. Too calm. And if you work in healthcare, you already know — we don’t say the Q word. I’m not about to jinx the rest of this shift by getting too comfortable. So for now, I’m just going to take it for what it…
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A Stable Father’s Day Weekend (Suspiciously Stable)
This weekend was…..stable. And in long-term care, stable is basically the gold standard — like, we don’t ask questions, we just say thank you and keep it moving. It was Father’s Day weekend, which was noticeably quieter than Mother’s Day. We only have five men on our unit, so it wasn’t exactly a full production.…
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Back in the Groove…Kind of
Senior Week is officially behind us, and my daughter has wrapped up her primary school era. Between end‑of‑May chaos and early‑June celebrations, life has been a whirlwind. Beautiful, emotional, exhausting — all of it. But now that graduation is over, I can finally feel some of that weight sliding off my shoulders. It’s been about…
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And It’s Only 1030….😒
This weekend has been one of those “is it the full moon or just healthcare?” kind of weekends. One of the residents had an unwitnessed fall – totally fine all day and night – then wakes up confused, incoherent and seeing bugs on the dining room table. Of course. He’s a frequent fall, stubborn, independent…
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🩺 When You Lose a Resident You Barely Knew
Losing residents is part of the job.You know that going in. But no one really talks about what it feels like when you lose someone…and you’re not sure how you’re supposed to feel. Within a few weeks, we lost two residents. And I sat there thinking—am I sad?I think I am… but not the way…
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🩺 I Hope I Was a Good Nurse Today
It was one of those days. My feet are throbbing.My brain feels like it’s still running.And I’m replaying everything I did… and everything I didn’t. I felt like I wasn’t as helpful as I should’ve been.Like I was always one step behind.A little panicked. A little scattered. And I hate that feeling. I had just…
