Off the Chart

"Friday you go in for a fight ... then it happens ..." It had been a horrible week. Wednesday the patient who refused her TED hose...

Celebrate with gifts! / decorations! / for yourself! (my favorite) / for your boss! Published by Jennifer Tipton / This post may contain...

As a new RN in a large midwestern hospital, I started on the 8-hour night shift of a busy MedSurg telemetry floor. Inexperience led me to...

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...

My favorite story is when the ICU night shift nurses advocated for a twenty-five-year-old woman with cardiomyopathy. Her heart was so...

Let's take a break from Covid to talk about this - the latest on our Hot Topics in Healthcare page. 32-year-old British nurse Lucy Letby...

When it comes to Off the Chart stories of Heart and Humor - this one's pretty funny! This is the story of my worst shift on a Med Surg...

More Independence Day mishaps as told by E.R. staff. ENJOY and have a FUN and SAFE 4th! Firecrackers and cake. Some years ago, a Fourth...

Advocating for our patients.

Who else goes home with a pocket full? ... and alcohol wipes, and ...?

My caption would be, "Oh my gosh, I forgot to clamp the foley bag!" (Cause I've never done THAT before!) How would you caption this?

Have a great day everyone! Hope you "roll" right through it!

I usually do these for Christmas -they're called "Cranberry Brie Bites", but last weekend I changed it up when I hosted a game night with...

Thanks to #SueKulpaca for sending this one in!