Nurses’ Notes

Tales of my nursing career 1968–2012

My first High Colonic — given not received.

Not everything a nurse must do is life-saving or worthy of seeing repeated on Grey’s Anatomy.

While working on 3-North at Easton Hospital in the late 1960s, an elderly Italian gentleman was admitted to the Solarium (6 beds and no sink or bathroom). He was in bed one that faced bed six. In bed six was a young…