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Gift from a Cancer Patient

January 4, 2023

Pink Lotus In my thirty-seven year long nursing career I cared for many patients, many of whom touched my heart in different ways. One lady who still has a place in my heart was a cancer patient, Ms. Jones. The first time I met her I was impressed with her indomitable spirit, her sense of … More Gift from a Cancer Patient

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Compassion and Understanding

September 6, 2022

My patient, Ms. Q, was on oxygen in the Coronary Care Unit where I was a nurse. She became quite a challenge as you will see. Ms. Q had a long history of cigarette smoking coupled with a heart attack. On her admission she and her family were instructed on our policy of no smoking … More Compassion and Understanding

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Nursing “Back Then” Part 1

March 22, 2022

My mind is boggled when I think about how far the fields of medicine and nursing have come since my mother trained in the early 1940’s. We both trained at the same nursing school, as did my sister. But we graduated in 1972 and 1973. I worked as a nurse from 1972 until 2011. I … More Nursing “Back Then” Part 1

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Student Nurse Life in Early 1970s

March 21, 2022

I attended and graduated from Greenville (SC) General Hospital School of Nursing in 1972. This school was one of the last three-year diploma schools. Three-year schools are now obsolete with two-year nursing schools, which offer an associates degree and four year schools in colleges and universities which offer training for an RN diploma and a … More Student Nurse Life in Early 1970s

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Nursing School in the 1920’s

March 20, 2022

After I graduated from high school in 1969 I started nurse’s training in a three year diploma nursing school which had opened in 1918. The rules for the student nurses were quite strenuous in those days. I remember reading a paper of dormitory rules from that era. Here are some of them with rules found … More Nursing School in the 1920’s

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The Night I Will Never Forget

November 3, 2021

There are parts of this story that may be disturbing but not graphic. It is about how a medical team worked together to care for disaster victims. In the 1970’s I was a nurse in a 5 bed ICU/CCU unit in a small two wing, one floor community hospital near New Orleans. On the way … More The Night I Will Never Forget

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