Nursing

I got asked by a nursing student that I know here to give a quote answering the question “What is your view of nurses?” I wrote an answer and then decided I liked it so much that I would put it here for everyone to read.

It’s the nurse’s ability to provide extraordinary care to each and every patient that comes under their care while short on time, sleep and money that sets them in a league of their own. In the hustle and bustle of a hospital that is busy offering critical care to people running the gamut from neonates to geriatrics, the nurses are the ones who are juggling multiple patients and keeping tabs on medications and treatment options. They offer a hug to a grief stricken family or a wave of welcome relief to a worrying parent. The public have ranked nurses as the most honest and ethical profession in the Gallup polls for nine years running and I don’t see any reason they don’t deserve every bit of that honor. RNs are underpaid and overworked yet still can spare a smile for their patients. This makes sense; nurses are just angels in comfortable shoes.

This weekend we kind of have just been hanging out and having a good time. Work has died down enough that we don’t go to the office on Saturdays until we have our customer briefing next week and we start pulling full weeks again. We found out two of the guys from the other project may be moving to another building which is something we’re not all really okay with. We’ve gotten used to walking down the hall to say hello and getting distracted into a big conversation down there. If they move buildings, we’re going to accomplish so much more work on our day to day assignments that it’s just not going to be funny.

I let one of the guys borrow my PS3 because I’m not really playing it and the Internet speeds here aren’t really quick enough to play the online games with my buddies around the country. The next day, I restarted my Netflix subscription and changed the address to this house so we can get the movies. It was then that I realized my Blu-Ray player (the PS3) was no longer in the same house. Thankfully my computer has a Blu-Ray drive, so I should be covered. We’ll have to make sure we get the movies on DVD though for the other people in the house so they can all see them on the tiny TV we have in the living room. I do not like technological regression though, so the Blu-Ray to DVD switch may do me in.