Closing Time
On August 3, 2005, the first Emergiblog post was published.
Eight years and 935 posts later, and with a part of me dreading this even as I write, it is time to say good-bye.
It’s been 10 months since my last entry. Many times over those months, I’ve run into a situation and thought, “this would make a great blog post!”
Yet, I did not put my thoughts into writing.
The passing of time has not rekindled the passion to write, and when the desire to write is gone, one is no longer a blogger.
Damn, that was hard to write.
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There are still topics I could write about: the metamorphosis of my hospital i...
Source: Emergiblog - August 19, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: Kim Tags: Blog A Blog Around the Clock askshane.org blogger blogging BlogWorld Bora Zivkovic electronic health records Emergiblog Hugh Hewitt James Lileks Johnson & Johnson Mod Mother New Media Expo nurse Nurse Ratched's Place nursin Source Type: blogs
The Voice
Oh! what I would give for a paper chart!
…for a clean, crisp empty sheet of nursing notes!
Oh! to see perfectly horizontal black lines, inviting me to hover my delicately-balanced pen above, poised to create a work of art.
Oh! to eloquently describe my nursing care in cursive so beautiful my great-grandmother would cry.
What would I give?
I’d give my (expletive) Cerner workstation a shove into the San Francisco Bay.
Yeah, we finally entered the 21st century at work.
Computerized charting. What a crock.
Boy, do I have a rant all ready to explode for this one.
But that’s the next post.
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What do yo...
Source: Emergiblog - January 7, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: Kim Tags: Blog blogger blogging CERNER computerized charting emergency department emergency department nurse ER nurse nursing voice Source Type: blogs
