By: Debbie Moore-Black, RN I finally found time after my retirement, to clean out my nurse book bag.Stethoscope. Extra Playing cards for patients, highlighters, various pens, penlight, a notebook of important phone numbers throughout the system, tourniquets for IV’s. And a plastic whistle. This is a $5+ Billion/year revenue at this healthcare system that sprawls […]
By Debbie Moore-Black, RN I treat myself out to that same restaurant for breakfast like once or twice a month.And there she is again. The same waitress. With those same sad eyes.She knows my name but I don’t know hers.Sometimes she has a bruise on her forehead or bruises up and down her arm. I […]
By: Debbie Moore-Black, RN We were not well versed. We nurses on Behavioral Health.I finally left ICU nursing after 33 years. I was close to retirement and I thought Behavioral health would be so much easier than ICU.But the old comparison of apples and oranges held true. There was no comparison of ICU to Behavioral […]