Blog Entries for NurseKeith tagged 'visiting nursing'

Of Orientation and Unions....

nursekeith@gmail.com — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

I have completed my first week of orientation at my new job as a per diem hospice nurse at a local VNA. While I still feel like an impostor who knows nothing, my ignorance painfully obvious to anyone who looks at all closely, I'm feeling comfortable and warmly welcomed to my new workplace (even as contract negotiations between the union and my new employer drag into their tenth month).

Interestingly, I was allowed to leave 90 minutes early yesterday, and only today I read in the pa [...]

A Heat Wave and My Relative Privilege

nursekeith@gmail.com — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:35:45 +0100

Today I slogged through the city doing patient visits from one end of town to another as the mercury rose to the mid-90's.

Feeling sorry for myself, I jumped in and out of my comfortable air-conditioned car only to realize my relative privilege as I visited patients who were sweating it out in third-floor walk-ups devoid of even a simple fan!

Deep in the city are thousands of people living in near-squalid conditions with no escape from the summer heat and little comfort [...]