Nurses’ week 2020
I didn’t get to celebrate Nurses’ Week. I don’t think many of us nurses did, I know us critical care nurses barely knew it was Nurses’ Week. I really don’t […]
Where the Lord calls to serve
I’m doing something I normally don’t do. In fact I’m terrified. This whole coronavirus pandemic is effecting everyone around us differently. Right now, I can say with absolute certainty that […]
This is why I became a PICU nurse
If you have been following me for a while now, you know I am a PICU nurse. For those of you just stumbling across my blog for the first time, […]
Coffee and Donuts
To you this may just be coffee and donuts, but to me it is everything. A family of a girl I took care of a while ago in the PICU, […]
Happy Nurses Week
May of 2009 I graduated from Nursing school and 10 years goes by fast. As a student I was filled with much hope and longed to make a difference in […]
Confessions of a PICU nurse
I am really nervous to write this, but being a writer somehow equates to vulnerability. And it seems that there’s always at least one person who’s life is touched by […]
Hate is too great a burden
How do you love your enemies? The people that wrong you and intentionally try to hurt you? The ones that hold a grudge against you for no reason? How do […]
Sometimes there are miracles
Everyone always has an opinion about someone else. And that’s where this story starts. I had no opinion of this man when I first met him. But everyone I knew […]
The Ninja Nurse and her Jiu-Jitsu Warrior: Never Compromise Your Worth
One of the wisest things the Jiu-Jitsu Warrior has ever said was “identity cannot be compromised for people”. I wrote The Ninja Nurse without her Jui-Jitsu Warrior exactly a year […]
Toxic places, toxic people
One of the biggest convictions we have is the tug a war relationship between being kind and distancing ourselves from people/places. Not just any, the toxic ones. As a Christian, […]
The scars of cancer
There are no words to describe this kid, because words cannot do justice… the first time I met him, I was trying to help him stand; he said to me, […]
The Ninja Nurse’s new coworkers
I really want to take a minute to brag about my new coworkers: the PICU nurses, Pediatric nurses, and Patient Care Technicians.
That PICU nurse LIFE
No one can understands what a PICU nurse feels, thinks, and experiences.. that is, besides her PICU coworkers in her moments of true devastation. It’s Pediatric Nurse Week, and some […]
Sleep is a wonderful thing
I don’t think I’ve truly appreciated sleep before. In the past I compromised an hour here and there to go out, to catch up on errands, and let my busy […]
2PM Coffees
The thing about coffee is that, it’s never just coffee. 2pm rolls around and I descend down the elevators and make my way to Starbucks. I’m a creature of habit. […]
On this cold day, consider the homeless
This morning was cold, very cold. As I was leaving work around 8 am, I was tired and dreading the cold. After a certain point or degree, the cold is […]
