For a period during COVID there were no visitors allowed in hospitals. So, people would go into the hospital through the ER for some...

I enrolled in a bachelor’s program that coordinated with my associate's program so that six months after graduating with my ADN, I would...

During lunch at clinical shifts in nursing school, we sit with our clinical instructor and other students on our unit to discuss topics...

I would often leave my clinical shifts during nursing school feeling wholly deflated. At first I thought this was just because they were...

It’s first semester nursing school 2020. Most of the classes are held on zoom and the ones in person are split up so I’ve only met about...

I’m working on the telemetry floor my second semester of nursing school.  The patients on this floor are very similar. Almost all...

Men’s prostates enlarge over time. Fifty percent of men over 50 have a clinically enlarged prostate and by 90, 90% do.  It generally only...

It’s my fourth semester of nursing school, and one of the patients I’m assigned, “Is an asshole and won’t let you do your job,” per the...

I’m in clinical, assigned to a patient in his early 70s with dementia. He’s tall and looks healthy, like he was an athlete. He knows who...

I was meant to start nursing school September, 2019.  But, COVID started locking things down in March and pushed my program back a...

I’m not used to touching stranger’s privates. Many of my classmates were CNA’s before nursing school and had developed some comfort with...