Making the Most of a Working Christmas

One of the sad facts of nursing life is that you have to work holidays. Most facilities have you work every other holiday, but that can mean that you are on the floor for Christmas. Some nurses don’t mind working holidays because patients need them. However, some nurses resent having to work holidays because it takes away from their time with family. Both are valid points, but going into nursing, most people know they are going to have to work days that they would rather not. What’s a nurse to do?
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Finding the Perfect Gift for your Family: Being Present

Shopping for presents, wrapping them late so no one sees what you bought, baking cookies to keep the family tradition, making the stuffing and pies and then falling into bed exhausted only to wake up in daze when everyone else is excited about Christmas day and not being able to enjoy the moment.
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12 Tips for Nurses: The Paradox of Getting More Done is To Do Less

Nurses love to fix things, solve problems, take care of people and make everything nice. As a nurse you learn to make do and to find ways around things that do not work. Nurses go out of their way for other people. So in this holiday season, it is easy to see how, as a nurse, you are inclined to do even more for everyone else.
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A Waiting Room Christmas Story

Christmas of 1981 -- it had been a horrible year. In May, I found my husband of three years, the church choir director, in bed with the soprano. In the wake of that disaster, we pulled up stakes and moved three thousand miles so that we could “work on our marriage” in the absence of what turned out to be Gerry’s many mistresses. I was young and more or less fresh off the farm when we moved to the Big City.
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Triage's Christmas Songs: The 12 days of Med surge!

On the first day of Christmas my Charge nurse gave to me... A Total hip with a leaking foley.

On the second day of Christmas my Charge nurse gave to me... Two total admits
and a total hip with a leaking foley.

On the third day of Christmas my Charge nurse gave to me... Three fall risks
Two total admits
and a total hip with a leaking foley...
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[Toon] Home Care During the Holidays

Nurses have been called Angels of Mercy, Mighty Nurses, and Super Heroes, but I'll bet we have never been called Santa's Elves. Home Health Nurses enter into all kinds of environments and care for ill, injured and dying patients.
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