Celebrating Nurses’ Monumental Impact
There is a myriad of ways to participate in National Nurses Week, which is celebrated May 6-12, from honoring your staff RNs with a gift or event to taking steps to let...
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By: Paula Watkins
Published: 3/4/2014
By the time you read this column, the weather might have turned, there could be balm and breeze in the air, we may finally have dug out from the worst that winter had to offer. Either that or the snow will have buried us once and for all.
I am in Connecticut, but as of this writing it looks more like Antarctica. In my 8 years as a traveling nurse, I don't think I've ever experienced so many single-digit temperature days. If nothing else, I've learned a couple of things this winter about being a nurse in the Year of the Polar Bear.
It hasn't taken me long, but I've grown to dislike those little, innocent snowflakes that a thousand years ago used to thrill me with the possibility of closing school for the day. I hold a grudge against the ice in beverages, for the slips and falls that have sent me sprawling on the ground (luckily, nothing but my pride has been hurt). Nothing personal, winter, but I think I'll like you better once summer is sweating us.
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