The Voice

Oh! what I would give for a paper chart! …for a clean, crisp empty sheet of nursing notes! Oh! to see perfectly horizontal black lines, inviting me to hover my delicately-balanced pen above, poised to create a work of art. Oh! to eloquently describe my nursing care in cursive so beautiful my great-grandmother would cry. What would I give? I’d give my (expletive) Cerner workstation a shove into the San Francisco Bay. Yeah, we finally entered the 21st century at work. Computerized charting. What a crock. Boy, do I have a rant all ready to explode for this one. But that’s the next post. ********** What do you do when you lose your voice? Your blogging voice. It used to be so easy. **** When I started blogging in 2005 I just talked about what it was like to be a staff nurse. That was my “voice.” The stories flowed off the keyboard. Blogging was a creative outlet. Blogging was fun. Today, an old-school Catholic nun sits in my head, rapping my knuckles with her ruler if I even consider posting something that isn’t “prim and proper”. The trouble is, “prim and proper” is not my style. Now, I can write “prim and proper” with the best of them. But a blog is not the place for that. This blog is not the place for that. And to be honest with you, I have not been all that enamored of health care in the last year or so, of watching my wonderful small community hospital become an appendage of a corporate behemoth. Or of ...
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