Breaking Records and Bad Habits
After a weekend of biking over 100 km (I biked on Saturday too) I did not feel like going for morning runs this week. Fortunately my watch did not feel the same way. Another feature that I like about...
View ArticleStarting my clinical job search. Any advice?
In May I left my job at York University to come to Cambodia for July & August with Alanna. The position was a temporary one, and I wanted spend the summer working and volunteering here, and visit...
View ArticleStudying ECGs and for ACLS.
In the past few days and weeks I’ve been overwhelmed and grateful for all advice and support for my job search. As I said in the last post I’m going to keep working on the small steps that should...
View ArticleToo busy learning to blog
Sometimes it can be hard to keep up with a blog. Although I’d like to pretend I was to busy studying my ECG rhythms the truth is I’ve been learning to SCUBA dive instead. Before heading back to North...
View ArticleOvercoming intellectual ignorance. Why I’m thinking about an alternative to a...
When you finish school, people ask what next? When you finish a masters people ask, so when do you want to do your PhD? However, I don’t think I have caught that bug yet. I just read a good post by...
View ArticleMoving up in the world…
Moving up in the world… or at least I’m getting more name tags with new titles. As many of you may know I got a job on Internal Medicine at Toronto General Hospital, which is part of the University...
View ArticleAll by myself
As some of you may have noticed last week I was working own my own. For those non-nurses, basically during my orientation (8 shifts) I worked with another nurse. At first I would look after two...
View ArticlePatient Memories
This fall when I was getting my resumé and portfolio together I came across this poem a patient wrote for me. I still keep a lot of those journals and a couple artifacts from my past. The help to...
View ArticleTime at home and aboad
As am writing this I’m high. Not that kind of high. 35 000 feet in the air high. During an eight hour flight you have some time to reflect. Somewhere in-between trying to write an article I need to...
View ArticleBest Wedding
I’m sure most people feel this way but, last week I realized that my own wedding is the best wedding I’ve ever been too. Being surrounded by family and friends for a few days. Then an amazing service...
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