Hilarious Email about Discharging a Patient

Read this hilarious email that was sent to me today:

Hospital regulations require a wheelchair for patients being discharged. However, while working as a student nurse, I found an elderly gentleman already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet---who insisted he didn't need my help to leave the hospital. After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly let me wheel him to the elevator. On the way down, I asked if his wife was meeting him. "I don't know," he said. "She's still upstairs in the bathroom changing out of her hospital gown."

Travel Nurse Aim Ranked Among Top 100 Blogs for Nursing Students

There is nothing like a shout out from fellow nurses to make you feel appreciated. I would like to thank RNCentral.com for ranking Travel Nurse Aim No. 78 among its "100 Best Blogs for Nursing Students." Check out the complete list of 100.

Also, if you haven't already seen them, take a look at these checklists before signing with an agency:

(1) Contract Items to consider;

(2) Housing Stipends;

(3) Benefits and Insurance; and

(4) Workplace Facilities.

Our House Flooded

Some of our readers have e-mailed asking why we are settled in South Georgia again this school year. The answer is becoming less and less clear given what happened the weekend before last and what is going on right now.

The weekend before last we were visited by Tropical Storm Fay which decided to stick around for two and a half days before moving on. The storm moved through at about 4 mph and dropped 25 inches of rain in two days. I felt like it would never leave. By the time it left our living and tv rooms had an inch of water on the floor.
See all that red just above the Florida line where the arrow is pointing. Yeah. That's where we live.

Too Busy To Post Right Now

I missed posting about our trip to Camp in North Carolina. But given the myriad of things that have happened since then I don't really have time to go back and do it justice. Suffice it to say we had a blast, the boys came back feeling like little men (ha ha) and, best of all, no kids were seriously injured while we were there.

Here are some pictures of the boys and me at Camp.

Stephen and Jacob and a week of hiking, camping and the great outdoors.

Aim and Stephen go canoeing.

Jacob takes it easy.

Countdown to Camp

We are headed to camp in just over a week.

In the meantime, check out a couple of my checklists if you are looking for an agency this summer. I have had a number of e-mailers tell me the checklists are helpful. Hopefully you will too.