Nurse Ratched’s Place

Dr. Val Jones from Better Health is making an announcement. She, Dr. Mike Sevilla (AKA: Dr. Anonymous), and Dr. Nick Genes will be offering live coverage of the biggest tech conference: HIMSS in Atlanta, March 1-4. This conference is huge. Thirty thousand people are going to be there, and you can follow along. Dr. Val [...]

Portrait by Ansel Adams, 1943 My mother told me to never talk about religion or politics in public. She said it is impolite, but I have to speak up. The woman in this picture is Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi. Look at her closely. Nurse Hamaguchi is the face of racial profiling. Nurse Hamaguchi was born in [...]

This nurse looks like she’s charting, but she might be fooling you. Perhaps she’s writing down her New Year’s resolutions. I’ve noticed a lot of nurses doing that around this time of the year when they are at work. The number one resolution during a bad shift is “get a new job now!” Too bad [...]

I found this video over at Diary of a Trauma Nurse. The video was done at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, Oregon. Put your dancing shoes on. It’s time to boogie! Tweet

It looks like the girls have been busy cooking Christmas dinner for their patients in the hospital kitchen. Really. Some hospitals will do anything to save a buck. Anyway, it looks like everyone is having fun. Wishing you happy holidays from Nurse Ratched’s Place. Tweet

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Check these old gals out. Love the cute nursing caps. They look so dainty. Turn of the century nurses knew how to stretch a buck. They did all the work in the hospital. They cooked for their patients, did housekeeping chores, and whatever else they had to do to keep their hospital humming. Notice the [...]

I thought I was going to hit a Jersey wall last week while I was driving into work. Yes, I drive like a Mario Andretti on the Beltway, but that had nothing to do with it. It was all NPR’s fault. I was listening to the radio at 4 AM when NPR announced the results [...]

Nurse, your patient is not a pineapple. I found this ad for a grocery store on the Internet. The new store owners wanted to reassure old customers that they would continue the store’s tradition of caring for their fresh produce. I didn’t know that nursery nurses could subspecialize in botanicals. Coochy coo pineapple, we love [...]

It all started so innocently. A couple of years ago I signed up for Google AdSense. It looked like a fair deal. I was working with a legitimate company—not a fly by night operation—so I figured that I didn’t have anything to lose. I won’t say that the money started rolling in. It didn’t. The [...]