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BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
wondering if there's a red fall-risk bracelet in my future.
I can't work as a nurse until I'm done being a patient. With any luck, I
should be out of this splint and on the road to my next contract at
another hospital by the time you're reading this. But right now I'm pecking out these words with one hand. If nothing else, this pit stop has
given me a moment between assignments to reflect on yet another lesson they don't teach you in nursing school (or didn't when I was there,
anyway): Don't judge a book by its medical record, because karma is a
boomerang. OSM
Ms. Watkins can be reached at pwatkins12@comcast.net.
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