On Death and Dying
A couple of articles of note, both longish, but definitely worth reading. For nurses, in any setting, providing care around death and dying is probably the most profound and meaningful thing we can do...
View ArticleSome Days You Just Gotta Post Links Vol. 3
In honour of a certain otitis media. Some more really bad food. “Four adult men would have to share this entree in order to each stay within a day’s worth of saturated fat.” Quackery. (Also reminds me...
View ArticleSome Days You Just Gotta Post Links Vol. 6
The ultimate, time-honoured, blogging fake-out, where your faithful blogger shouts, “Look over there!” while going off and doing something else altogether. Enjoy. A nurse ethicist on end of life care:...
View ArticleSome Days You Just Gotta Post Links Vol. 7
A little more than the usual linkage, to carry you through the holiday season. Handy guide to those darn cranial nerves (Oh, oh, oh, to touch and feel. . .) A medical wiki, supposedly written only by...
View ArticleHow Mr. Jones Died
Mr. Jones was 83-years-old when he died. He came to us by ambulance from with shortness of breath beginning a little after lunch. He was from a nursing home; he had the alphabet soup of morbidities:...
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