Liz's Story
Everyone needs a friendly reminder now and then of why we do what we do - here's mine. After carefully reading the printed handwriting on...
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Jennifer Tipton
Feb 132 min read
Happy Valentine's Day
Love is in the air, but I'll admit there were many Valentine's Days when I wanted nothing more than to shoot Cupid with his own arrow....
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Jennifer Tipton
Feb 72 min read
Most Talked About Super Bowl Injury
It is believed to be one of the most extreme cases of bad luck on the football field. The incident occurred in 2015 when Seattle Seahawks...
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Jennifer Tipton
Jan 303 min read
The Many Faces of Home Health
Throughout our healthcare career, we cross paths with so many different lives. There's such a diverse collection of culture, and...
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Jennifer Tipton
Jan 253 min read
The Day that AIDs Became Personal
by Katy Hoover RN I was an LVN working staff relief. It was the beginning of what would eventually be categorized as the AIDS pandemic....
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Jennifer Tipton
Jan 162 min read
Home Health Care & The Story of Millie Biddle
Here is a shortened version of a story from my book: Off the Chart A Nurse's Journey of Heart and Humor. When I wrote the book, there...
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Jennifer Tipton
Jan 82 min read
Kelly's Story - An Off-the-Chart Story of Caring and Compassion.
One of my favorite moments in my career occurred during my pediatric rotation in nursing school. I was assigned to a newborn with an...
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Jennifer Tipton
Dec 28, 20231 min read
New Year's Tales From the ER
Bear Suit Gone Wrong! Dr. Rob Gunther, an emergency physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, said one of his most memorable New...
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Jennifer Tipton
Dec 20, 20233 min read
Dorothy's Christmas Story
This is a story that I went back and forth on whether or not to include in my book. It's a most remarkable story, a Christmas miracle....
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Jennifer Tipton
Dec 14, 20232 min read
Trauma in the night -Linda's Story
I was on call for the OR one night when the phone rang at 2:47 am. There was a trauma case; a gunshot wound to the head had just come...
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Jennifer Tipton
Dec 5, 20233 min read
Joaquin's Story
There's a special trust between a patient and the Home Health nurse. Here's a favorite story from my book, Off the Chart A Nurse's...
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Jennifer Tipton
Nov 27, 20231 min read
Andrea's Story
Here's a story I'll never forget... I was working in the ICU and caring for a young woman with Guillain-Barre syndrome. The young woman...
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Jennifer Tipton
Nov 20, 20232 min read
Embracing Gratitude: A Thankful Welcome to the Thanksgiving Season
With Thanksgiving just days away, it's so easy to get swept up in the hectic hustle of planning, shopping, and preparing a feast. But...
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Jennifer Tipton
Nov 14, 20233 min read
How Can Therapeutic Use of Self Improve the Quality of Patient Care?
The Stories of Shelly, Amy and Nate by Chris Ouderkirk O.T. First, what does Therapeutic Use of Self even mean? Simply put, it’s...
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Jennifer Tipton
Nov 6, 20231 min read
Carolyn's ICU Story
My favorite story is when the ICU night shift nurses advocated for a twenty-five-year-old woman with cardiomyopathy. Her heart was so...
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Jennifer Tipton
Oct 31, 20231 min read
Halloween Series - Part III
This one is my favorite — a trick gone wrong! Happy Halloween! Brandon's Story At my old hospital, one of our older EM docs, Dr. Lang was...
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Jennifer Tipton
Oct 30, 20232 min read
Halloween Stories - Part II
This one from an ICU nurse is the spookiest of them all. Thanks a lot Truman! (I may have to sleep with the light on tonight.) Truman's...
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Jennifer Tipton
Oct 29, 20232 min read
Halloween Stories - Part I
The spookiest night of the year is nearly upon us, and although I don't do spooky (not well anyway), I'll admit some weird stuff happens...
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Jennifer Tipton
Oct 19, 20232 min read
Annette's Story
For those of you that have not yet had a chance to read my book, Off the Chart A Nurse's Journey of Heart and Humor, here's a story from...
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Jennifer Tipton
Oct 3, 20233 min read
Beverly's Dialysis Story: Panic at Sea
We started off our day with a drive from Santa Maria, California to Long Beach, California to board the cruise ship sailing to Cabo San...
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