Not to be confused with "Change of Shift," for which you should head over to Emergiblog to get info on how to submit your entry for the next edition! It's quite easy - all Kim wants is your very first post! We were recently on vacation and on our way to returning the rental car, we stopped to fill it with gas. I thought I'd go in and get the boy some pretzels to munch on until we could get him some...

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Like the title says, this post has nothing to do with nursing. Or medicine. Ok then! I just read this on Yahoo! news: "His father, Yosef Cavalin, frets about the piano-playing, noting that his only child recently broke his arm pursuing another passion, martial arts. He has won several trophies for his age group. "Finals are coming and everything and he cannot play with both hands. He'll just try to...

This weekend we had a patient who had come in with chest pain. He was taken to the cath lab and was stented. Normally this kind of patient would go home in a day or two if there were no complications. Unfortunately this patient had a big complication - he was an alcoholic. So by the time he was ready for discharge for his heart problem, his alcohol withdrawal had kicked in. He is now on day 5 of hi...

ERNursey wants to know: What do you people do with the christmas trees off the flo-meters anyway? Why do you take them off? Not a comprehensive list by any means: 1. Take them off the flow meter, add some beads, and you can make a kick-ass ID Badge lanyard. 2. A naughty little addition to that voodoo doll you made. 3. As, well, Christmas/fir trees for your kid's miniature doll house yard. 4. They g...