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Time to Draft an Oath for Respiratory Therapy
March 1, 2010 3:31 AM by Stephanie Scarbrough
New doctors take the Hippocratic Oath as they graduate medical school, and nurses have the Nightingale Pledge. This got me thinking. Two of the medical professions with the most advocacy have some version of a pledge that holds the oath-taker to a high Read More...
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The Relief of 25 Weeks
December 29, 2009 12:44 PM by Stephanie Scarbrough
I have officially reached the 25-week mark in my pregnancy. It really hadn't been weird for me to work exclusively in a NICU until just about now. Before, I knew that she wouldn't have a chance; now, I look at 24 and 25 weekers every day. I can honestly Read More...
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RTs vs. RNs: A True Story
June 2, 2009 5:16 PM by Stephanie Scarbrough
So how do you handle it when there's that one nurse that takes the whole mile when you offer her an inch? We have one in particular that is the queen of taking more than you can give and then wanting more. We were having maybe the craziest night ever Read More...
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Caring Isn’t Just Limited to Your Shift
March 30, 2009 4:35 PM by Stephanie Scarbrough
There is a family at work that I have gotten close with. Understandably, they want nothing but the best for their baby. Their daughter is five and a half months old and has had one of the rockiest starts I have ever seen. So far, she has defied the odds, Read More...
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It's Not You, It's Me...
February 11, 2009 12:31 PM by Stephanie Scarbrough
I think of myself as a nice person. My co-workers describe me as bubbly, friendly and funny. Being very easy-going, I get along with most people right off the bat. But that all changed when I had treatments on a child we'll call Norman. Norman is a sweet, Read More...
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‘Tis the season for peace on earth, good will towards all men, and…
January 2, 2009 1:54 PM by Stephanie Scarbrough
Complaining about holiday rotations? Why is it that even though we know we'll have to work holidays as a hospital RT we still complain about it? I am not exempting myself by any means. I was very upset to have to work the first Christmas after I got married. Read More...
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My Night in a Grey’s Anatomy Episode
November 12, 2008 4:38 PM by Stephanie Scarbrough
On a recent episode of Grey's Anatomy (I try to avoid hospital dramas at all costs but my husband has been working for a year-and-a-half to get me hooked on this one), one of the residents, Dr. Yang, found an area of the hospital that was like heaven Read More...
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Reaching Out
October 30, 2008 12:33 PM by Stephanie Scarbrough
We’ve all had points in our careers when we were lost. Needed help. Wanted guidance. I was the beneficiary of quite a bit of this wisdom early in my career. I was poked and prodded into becoming the therapist that I am today. Now the time has come for Read More...
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Starting Over
October 23, 2008 5:42 PM by Stephanie Scarbrough
I'll never forget what it was like to be a new grad. Every day at work was a new experience, and the being on the floors seemed like a whole new world. I learned the fine art of time management there. It's where I encountered my first real trach change Read More...
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Oh What A Night!
October 13, 2008 9:39 PM by Stephanie Scarbrough
While working last weekend, I was lucky enough to get to work in the NICU. That’s where I’m completely happy, I spend the night dancing throughout the rooms and singing like a fairy tale heroine. Right. I was blissfully happy until we found out that we Read More...
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I couldn’t do what you do. Not kids, no way!
September 10, 2008 1:03 PM by Stephanie Scarbrough
I hear this all the time. I was meeting a neighbor the other day when we discovered that she was also an RT, had been doing adult critical care her whole career. Those were her exact words to me. I felt the same way once upon a time. Let me give you a Read More...
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