By: Debbie Moore-Black, RN It was a known fact. I was 4’11” but I had a mouth on me to compensate. I was loud and noisy. Fellow nurses called me the “Rebel without a cause.”But I had a cause. I knew I was Samson against Goliath.Most everything became my cause.So I verbally fought my way […]
By Debbie Moore-Black, RN I thought it would be easier than ICU nursing. After 33 years as an ICU nurse, I had to leave. I just couldn’t take the pounding on the chests of little old men and women. Hearing and feeling their ribs crack while CPR was performed. I just couldn’t handle these poor […]
By Debbie Moore-Black, RN Last night working in the ICU, a malenurse assistant approached me to tell me he had read one of my stories about how people can die peacefully, without the breathing machines, without the wrist restraints, without the IV’s and mutiple lab sticks. Without the confusion and chaos and delirium that comes […]
Do Not Resuscitate 