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As of this writing, I’ve been here in Canada for more than a month. Celebrated my 1st monthsary last October 1. Nothing exciting ‘coz I think I was working that ...

Been here in Canada for like what, more than a month already and it’s now dawning on me that yeah, I do need to purchase a car as soon as I ...

After only 3 days of hospital orientation, I am positively sure that working in the hospital wing is not for me. I just can’t understand why, even if it’s only ...

Just got back from my 2 weeks of orientation. Mind you, it was not the unit orientation in the hospital yet. I still need to do 2 months of hospital ...

Well well well…. After all the hassle and bussle I’ve been through during my waiting game with my visa, finally, I’ve landed safe and sound here in Manitoba, Canada. Everything ...

While recently speaking at a nursing conference, the speaker before me was trying to make the point that nurses don’t support each other. One more sweeping generalization to put a negative ...

My life has been spinning out of control. The entire last year has been particularly “full” with business activities, new products and projects (I worked on 3 book projects this past ...

I just watched the premier of the newest medical drama “Mercy” on NBC which seems to focus on the lives of several key nursing characters. OK so it’s TV and ...

I’m finally on Twitter www.twitter.com/donnacardillorn and Facebook  http://www.facebook.com/donna.wilkcardillo. Have been on LinkedIn  but am now actually using it. Twitter is interesting and amazing and I’m enjoying using it. It can ...

My latest book, A Daybook for Beginning Nurses is hot off the presses. It was written for new graduates to inspire, motivate, and inform. There are 365 daily quotes, tips, ...

Just over a month ago, our unit had several H1N1 flu patients.  And they were sick.  Really really sick.  They were also fairly young - 30’s to 50’s.  I wondered ...

4 years ago today, Kim at Emergiblog wrote her first post.  Since that time she has become one of the most well-known nurse bloggers ever to have blogged.  She has ...

Doc Rob at Musings of a Distractible Mind has recently signed on to Quick and Dirty Tips and is announcing a birth… the birth of his podcast :) I’m quite ...

Change of Shift has entered its fourth year!  Yep, we’ve had 3 years of posts written by and for nurses in this biweekly carnival.  Kim has been thanked to the ...

I participated in a podcast about healthcare reform.  We first listened to a Q&A between Dr. Val and Dr. Bob Goldberg at CMPI-Advance.  After that we were invited to ask ...

Apologies for my absense. Several times over the last few weeks I have thought of a blog post that I might want to write and post, but something (not entirely ...

As a UK nurse who has moved into a managerial career in the NHS, I was intrigued to receive a request for a guest post by Richard Hemby. Ok so ...

Today we have been informed by the Patient Association that a small but significant minority of nurses are cruel and uncaring. We have been told that some nurses in the ...

Over the years there have been many miscarriages of justice. I guess that because we don’t execute people then it is always possible to release a person who has been ...

Having no team to manage is often a blessing. I have to admit that I have had very few people reporting to me who have been troublesome, and the stories ...

Sam Nouv runs a little donut shop about a mile from my house. When John was in the hospital, that’s where I bought the donuts for the nurses. After immigrating ...

A ghoulish horror awaits you at Change of Shift, as Reality Rounds goes to the dark side. I almost expect the zombies from “Thriller” to come dancing out of my ...

Oh geeze – these parents are actually arguing about which laxative to give their kid! “The modern way to bring up their baby.” Baby? That kid is four-years-old if he’s ...

First day of the general BlogWorld sessions and as usual, I came away with renewed energy, a plethora of ideas and a dramatically decreased bank account! No, not on gambling ...

The first medblogger track at BlogWorld/New Media Expo is now history. And it went beautifully! The panels were informative, the audience engaged and we even got Paul Levy in via ...

I consider myself spiritual, but not particularly religious… Lets leave it at that… but today I shall start by quoting the bible…. Here goes…. In everything I did, I showed ...

Well it finally seems to have happen..I think! (hmmm, I’ll rephrase that before someone makes a smart arse comment about me finally thinking…) Well I think it has finally happened! ...

Some while ago, I wrote a post called “You called your baby what???”  Well I thought perhaps I should turn it on its head and tell you what I get ...

Arrg…it’s happened again. So busy the week has disappeared and my blog has remained unposted…. Kim can relate…in fact read her post… One thing did get my attention this week….Yes ...

So over my few weeks off I hear a story on the news, that makes me stop and scratch my head a little… (and no I didn’t get splinters). Now ...