Nurse Flo // - Nurse Flo
4th year BScN student. 20 years old. Nursing. Toronto, Ontario.
I don't bite :)

I just can’t take it anymore! ghaah

Stressed out? Don’t know what to do?  

First of all, Stop… Step back and take a break.  When I mean by break, I don’t mean check your facebook or tumblr.  

Go for a walk or run, listen to music, go to the kitchen and make a snack.  Get away from your work.

Do some deep breathing exercises or meditate, it’s one of the best ways of release stress.

Once you have calmed down, go back and refocus.  Try working in a different way and get back to the groove.

If you want to listening to music, I recommend this: http://www.youtube.com/user/StudyMusicProject/videos 

I’ve used their songs to while I studied for finals and wrote papers.  They really do help.

Good Luck!

 

dorkynursingmajor:

For all the nursing students out there.

 

fotojournalismus:

Johnny Milano, www.johnnymilano.com.  This few images are from a series of a project I had done on Mitch, 20, who was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer that typically effects teenagers and has a highly less possible chance of effecting 20+ year old adults.  The project is titled 19 weeks as Mitch was required to undergo 19 weeks of alternating hospital stays where he would be subjected to chemotherapy and radiation treatments.

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therareandferociousswamprabbit:

summersinthesky:

fucking yes. 

This is from a really great Canadian mental health initiative. Check out the website and call out some bullshit! http://callbs.ca/#declare-bs

 
“Granddaddy has had a bunch of visitors today. I’ve heard the same complaints 10 times today. But for him, complaining is a pain reliever. He knows pain meds make him crazy, so if complaining keeps him from needing extra medication, I’m ok with listening to it.”

My grandmother, about my grandfather. 

Sometimes your patients’ complaints are voiced just to make themselves feel better. They’re not always a request for medication. 

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muertosiro:

prozd:

angelophile:

And my favorite new thing, window cleaners at children’s hospitals have started dressing as superheroes when they’re washing windows.

The initiative seems to have originated at Evelina Children’s Hospital at St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, where the window washers reportedly have a clause in their contract that requires them dress up to entertain the kids while working. And it’s caught on, with window cleaners in Memphis and Pittsburgh inspired to slip into costume when working. 

What a bad-ass idea.

What a great thing to do. 

 
“Nurses deal with slow death, constant sadness, gross inefficiency, and the chaos of failing lives, but we also deal a lot with patients’ poop. And not just poop. We also deal with pee, mucus, sputum, vomit—all the bodily excretions—in their normal and blood-inflected forms.”
— Theresa Brown, RN (Critical Care: A new nurse faces death, life, and everything in between)
 

IdleDancer: Nursing: 10 OF THE SCARIEST THINGS SEEN IN A HOSPITAL

idledancer:

...even if some are common occurrences, they are frightening enough in the moment to cause the nurse’s heart to race.

1. Blood exploding out from arterial line site, when you peek in after holding pressure for some time.

2. When you roll a patient to check their back after they arrive…

 

LOLOLOLOL

 

gnarbie:

Post-mastectomy tattoos by Tina Bafaro. Photos by Bafaro.

(Source: runenweib)