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The Roof is on Fire

It always makes the night better when you can introduce a coworker to Grandmaster Flash... The Roof is on FIRE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ScuVQVRYK0

Always begin at the beginning

Welcome to Tales of a Pillow Thief. Why pillow thief?  Well, if you work in a hospital, you know as well as I do that pillows are a hot commodity. Nurses, especially night shift nurses, are experts at creative acquisition. We start out timid, worried that we may upset someone's apple cart by taking a pillow off that clean bed. In reality, we all do it, we all steal pillows for our patients. Some patients only need one or two, but there are some who require eight or ten. We will be exploring a variety of topics on this blog: nursing hints and tricks tales from the dark side (appropriately redacted, of course) night shift survival skills day shift survival skills nurse life education certification navigating health care, for ourselves and others