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Shepherd Of The Gurneys: April 2015

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Shepherd Of The Gurneys. ER life, from a nurse working as a lifeguard in the shallow end of the gene pool. Thursday, April 30, 2015. Thought For The Day. A good shift is one where you get to go pee twice, and neither time is in your pants.". Thought For the Day. Monday, April 13, 2015. So this week, after spending the weekend at St. Sisyphus (if you're hazy on mythology, look it up) see if you can spot the hidden trend:. Drunk chick falls in parking lot, breaks fall with face, alcohol level 225. And that...

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Shepherd Of The Gurneys: Real American Heroes

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Shepherd Of The Gurneys. ER life, from a nurse working as a lifeguard in the shallow end of the gene pool. Monday, April 13, 2015. So this week, after spending the weekend at St. Sisyphus (if you're hazy on mythology, look it up) see if you can spot the hidden trend:. Guy who jumps off second level of building, breaks fall with face, blood alcohol level 300. Homeless guy takes all his daily psych meds and drinking beer, passes out, does faceplant on concrete, alcohol level 225. If you guessed the common ...

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Shepherd Of The Gurneys: July 2015

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Shepherd Of The Gurneys. ER life, from a nurse working as a lifeguard in the shallow end of the gene pool. Thursday, July 2, 2015. MONROVIA, Liberia — More than a month after Liberia was declared free of Ebola, at least two new cases have emerged, the first discovered when the body of a 17-year-old boy tested positive for the virus, officials said Tuesday. On Tuesday, an Ebola response team exhumed the body and had blood drawn for a more precise swab test. That test also came back positive. Dr Moses Mass...

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Shepherd Of The Gurneys: The Real Thing

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Shepherd Of The Gurneys. ER life, from a nurse working as a lifeguard in the shallow end of the gene pool. Wednesday, June 24, 2015. One interesting bit of apocrypha, is that the way they teach (or used to teach) bank tellers to distinguish counterfeit bills is by giving them the real bills to handle. After handling actual currency, the failings of counterfeit bills are immediately evident. Why this is germane may become evident as you read on. The end result was that when I was set adrift with about as ...

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Shepherd Of The Gurneys: November 2014

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Shepherd Of The Gurneys. ER life, from a nurse working as a lifeguard in the shallow end of the gene pool. Sunday, November 30, 2014. Ebola Care: Puilling The Plug. From comments on one of yesterday's threads:. Has anyone performed a study or reviewed the Ebola cases to determine if heroic measures like dialysis and ventilators are effective in curing people? If dialysis and ventilators are not effective, wouldn't it be better to let the poor suffering victim die sooner? Thus, in that extremely limited d...

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Shepherd Of The Gurneys: How To Tell This Isn't Going To Be A Good Shift, #2,317

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Shepherd Of The Gurneys. ER life, from a nurse working as a lifeguard in the shallow end of the gene pool. Monday, April 6, 2015. How To Tell This Isn't Going To Be A Good Shift, #2,317. Open wound flies = party! So you know things aren't going to be fun on your shift:. A) When the radio call report is "infected leg, with maggots". B) When said patient arrives with the leg involved wrapped in a plastic trash bag from toes to thigh. C) When the paramedics are taking hits off their SCBA breathers. My uninv...

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Shepherd Of The Gurneys: High Blood Pressure PSA

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Shepherd Of The Gurneys. ER life, from a nurse working as a lifeguard in the shallow end of the gene pool. Friday, April 10, 2015. High Blood Pressure PSA. Those of you in the trade already know this. Move along, or share it with those who need to hear it. This is for the laymen (and women) out there who read this, and their cute doddering parents and grandparents, uncles and aunts, older siblings, and dopey next door neighbors. The medical word for "hypertension" is High Blood Pressure. They also don't ...

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Shepherd Of The Gurneys: Okay, That Was Annoying

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Shepherd Of The Gurneys. ER life, from a nurse working as a lifeguard in the shallow end of the gene pool. Monday, February 16, 2015. Okay, That Was Annoying. With roughly four times the amount of grief, annoyance, and general PITA fucktardery as I experienced filling out a Top Secret/SCI special background investigation back in the day. Keep your resume updated. Including all your contacts and references. Especially when a 20% average pay raise is involved. Normal posting will resume in a week or two.

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Shepherd Of The Gurneys: Nurse Week

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Shepherd Of The Gurneys. ER life, from a nurse working as a lifeguard in the shallow end of the gene pool. Friday, May 8, 2015. When anyone wishes me a "happy Nurse Week", I feel about the same way as I do whenever someone who finds out about my military time says "Thanks for your service.". Which is, specifically, that I think, "Yeah, whatever.". 1) I knew the jobs were tough when I took them;. 2) I was (fairly) well-compensated for both of them, and I was just doing my job;. MoFos, for not properly sta...

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Shepherd Of The Gurneys: What Ebola? Where?

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Shepherd Of The Gurneys. ER life, from a nurse working as a lifeguard in the shallow end of the gene pool. Wednesday, April 1, 2015. As noted yesterday, Ebola is not, in fact, gone from any of the three most heavily impacted countries in West Africa. In fact, the weekly tallies right now are running at a fairly steady percentage of what they were during the apparent peak weeks last fall. Prior outbreak contracted it. It keeps infecting the careless, the stupid, the ignorant, and even those taking special...