Category: The Ninja Nurse Files
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Because of you
I think about how tired I am and how much my body aches. But then I am reminded of the reward, the lives that are touched, the souls that have second chances, the ones that are healed, and the ones that change my life, and then the ones that have become my friends, the friends […]
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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 know what was going on outside the walls of my world this week. It was brutal. This week was affirmation of how amazing my team […]
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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 it is by the grace of God that children are not that effected. With that being said, the adult population is in fact hurting and […]
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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, now you know! Most people aren’t familiar with PICU.. it is the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. I take care of critically ill children. I often […]
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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, stopped by during Nurses’ Week to wish and let me know “this is the only thing we can do for you, we remember you all […]
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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 this world. Tonight, during Nurses Week, I had the honor of pinning my dear friend Vanessa and I cannot believe how time has flown by. […]
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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 words of truth. I am afraid. Maybe because it is easier to let things collect under the carpet than speak about them. I for sure […]
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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 love them? How do you love the people that wish you harm? How do you show kindness to people that twist and manipulate your words? […]
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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 said this of him, he would admit just about every kid that comes into the emergency room to the PICU. I don’t fully know what […]
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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 ago and I have learned how in a year everything can change. What do we start losing when we let our job determine our identity? […]
Her Name Means Wild 