Change of Shift - Volume One, Edition Twelve

My Blog Parents

• Hugh Hewitt
• James Lileks

Everyone Has A Link To Glenn

• Instapundit

Professional Organization

• Emergency Nurses Association
• California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee

My Ecosystem

National Health Insurance

• Physicians For a National Health Plan
• Single Payer.com

The Other Side

• Scared to Health

When It Happens To You

• Diabetes Mine
• The American Diabetes Association
• The American Heart Association
• The Power Stuttering Center
• Diabetes Notes
• Six Until Me

Medical Bloggers of Interest

• MSSP Nexus
  News and information for those who work in healthcare administration
• Terra Sigillata
  Medicines from the Earth
• Treatment Online
  Behavioral fitness
• The Medical Blog Network
• A Blog Around the Clock
  chronobiology (circadian rhythms and photoperiodism), with additional interests in comparative physiology, animal behavior and evolution
• Women’s Health News
  Women’s health topics, news, policy, and resources from a medical librarian
• All Blogged Up: A Moof’s Tale
• Rickety Contrivances of Doing Good
  Science Fiction. Progressive Christianity. And Other Improbable Optimisms.
• Tundra Medicine Dreams
  Bush medicine, dog mushing, and tundra life..
• The Foot Blog
• Gay Lesbian Medical Association
  The leader in LGBT health for 25 years
• Nursing Assistant Resources on the Web
• Whitterer on Autism
  Coffee breaks in Cyberspace For when you want something short and sweet, but light on saccharin [translation = Aspartame]
• The Antidote
  Casting a critical eye on health and health care news and policy.
• Junkfood Science
  Critical examinations of studies and news on food, weight, health and healthcare that mainstream media misses
• Health Business Blog
  Focusing on business issues in health care.
• Joy in the Journey
  Finding grace and contentment on the path of life
• Hospital Impact
  What will it take for our hospitals to be the best run organizations on the face of the planet?
• Medical Mnemonics.com
  World’s database of medical mnemonics
• Onehealthpro
  Health care consultant and educator
• Merv Sheppard’s Transplant Network
• Your Pharmacist May Hate You
  The answer as to why your prescription takes so damn long to fill…..
• Transplant Headquarters
  Current issues in organ transplantation and the perspective of a young adult transplant recipient
• Everyone Needs Therapy
  This social work blog reflects my multi-disciplinary scholarship, academic degrees, and all kinds of letters after my name to make me feel big.
• Med-Source
  Resources for medical students
• Shrink Rap
  Dinah, ClinkShrink, & Roy introduce Shrink Rap: a blog by Psychiatrists for Psychiatrists
• Psyched Out
• Eye on DNA
  How will it change your life?
• Notageek
• Pallimed
  A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog
• I’m A Blogaholic
• Bioethics Discussion Blog
  Ethics is all about doing the right thing.
• Self Help Zone
  A place for self help, improvement and personal growth
• Meditec
  Medical equipment, news, links
• Rebuild Your Back
  News, commentary, articles and opinions on back pain, neck pain, sciatica, herniated discs and various treatment options…
• Every Patient’s Advocate
  Patient empowerment, advocacy, medical consumerism and tools to navigate the dysfunction of American health care.
• The Tree of Life
  Blog of Jonathan A. Eisen, evolutionary biologist, Open Access advocate, Professor at UC Davis and Academic Editor in Chief of PLoS Biology.
• Respiratory Therapy 101
  Just keep breathing…
• Medopedia
• MedFriendly
  Where medical information is easy to understand
• Running a Hospital
  A blog started by a CEO of a large Boston hospital to share thoughts about hospitals, medicine, and health care issues.
• pathtalk.org
  …is a weblog about pathology.
• Interested-Participant
• InsureBlog
  Insurance Issues, Principles and Solutions
• Medical Pastiche
  (noun) a kind of pie made of many different ingredients
• In Sickness and in Health
  …a place for couples going though an illness experience - to find resources and advice, hear stories, and discover support

On the Frontlines-Paramedics

• Random Acts of Reality
• Nee Naw: London Ambulance Dispatcher
• Drug Induced Hallucinations
• Purpleplus
• Paramed: A Paramedic’s Plight
• A Day in the Life of an Ambulance Driver
• NYC EMS
• Trauma Queen

Patients of the Blogosphere

• Colin’s Journal
• Difficult
• Josie King Foundation
• The Migraine Page
• Chronicbabe
• Putting Our Heads Together
• HealthyConcerns.com
• The Multiple Sclerosis Companion
• Dream Mom
• It’s a Wonderful Life
• The Beast: A Multiple Myeloma Story
• Medicine, Animals and a Dream
• Imagine Bright Futures
• Postcards From Holland
• 2Sides2Ron
• The Adventures of An Awesome (Sometimes) Mom
• The Gimp Parade
• Tales of My Thirties
• A Shot in the Dark
• The Wait and the Wonder
• The Pink Teeshirt
• How Can I Keep From Singing?
• A Chronic Dose
• It’s All Okay
• Second Chance to Live
• Baycitywalker
• The Cushing’s Disease Journey
• Imagine Bright Futures II
• IBS Tales: Stories of IBS
• Living With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• The Chiari Malformation Blog - Too Much Brain to Contain
• Payne Hertz
• Pearls and Dreams
• Don’t Stop Believing

Off-Duty Blogs

• The Boomer Chronicles
• HomeBizBlogger
• Jeff Scott Soto
  God’s gift…’nuff said!
• NASCAR.com
  Let’s go racin’, boys!
• Cleveland Browns Official Site
  Brady Quinn rocks! Now just let him play!
• Notre Dame Fighting Irish Official Athletic Site
  And there’s a magic in the sound of their name, here come the Irish of Notre Dame
• Thinking Out Loud
• Bless My Heart and Pass the Prozac
• Keep Breathing
• MelodicRock.com
  THE place to go for rock information!
• Kasey Kahne
  Young enough to be my son, cute enough that I don’t care!

Nurses of the Blogosphere

• The Nurse Practitioner’s Place
  Information relevant to nursing practice
• Code Blog
  Tales of a nurse
• Life in the NHS
  Nurse, manager, wife and mum: in short, a busy life!
• PixelRN
  Nurse + blog
• Orphie, The Wonder Dog
• Livin’ Large
  Daughter of adventure
• Dust in the Wind
• Mediblogopathy
  Nurse blogs
• Psychonurse’s Padded Cell
• Head Nurse
  Brain on the top, spine down the back
• Coffee and Conversation
  …in a smoky room
• The Miscellaneous Mischievous Misadventures of Missbhavens
• ImpactED Nurse
  No fluff/No Guff/No Duff
• About a Nurse
  A nurse blog
• Digital Doorway
  A digital venue for creative expression
• Donorcycle
  The life of a transplant coordinator
• Misadventurous Melissa
  Everyday is an adventure…
• Tiggers Don’t Jump
  They bounce. Night shift nurse in a level 3+ NICU, homeschooling mom, wife, general troublemaker.
• Pammiecakes
• DisappearingJohn RN
  frantically trying to split his time between returning to school to get his Master’s degree, and trying to romance the love of his life.
• Becoming A Nurse
  Diary of a midlife career change
• Student Nurse Jack
  Navigating a mid-life career change after finishing an accelerated RN program
• Knitting In The Dark
• Sisterhood of the Travelling Scrub Pants
  Health care as it happens in front of us.
• oncRN
  Exploring a life shaped by oncology nursing
• Blissful Entropy
  …not just a blog, it’s a state of mind.
• Cowman’s Corner of the Web
• Nurse Ratched’s Place
  Sanity is madness put to good use. George Santayana.
• Confessions of a Student Nurse
• It’s A Nursing Thing
  A new grad in a Level I Trauma Center
• talkingRN
  a registered nurse in a medical intensive care unit at a university hospital
• Girl In Greenwood
  …starting work at a Big County Hospital.
• In Our Own Words: Medscape Nurses
• Deacon Barry
  Deacon Barry is the blog of Christopher Dallman, a scottish ophthalmic nurse.
• N is for…Nurse
  My personal experience with becoming a labor and delivery nurse
• Aunt Pickle
  A journal (or rant) of my life as I journey through the ups and downs of my nursing career
• Adrenaline Rush
• Azygos
• ER RN
  Welcome to the crazy world of ER nursing.
• Code Pink
• At Your Cervix
• Overactive Imagination
  …plans to be a CRNA
• Under the Mosquito Net
  International nursing, health care, shamanism and other out-of-country adventures.
• Tales of a Bohemian Road Nurse
• Tangled Chain - A Nurse Perspective
• 4 Benders
  Juggling three part time “jobs” as a wife, mother and nurse.
• Madness: Tales of an Emergency Room Nurse
  The adventures of a veteran emergency nurse in an inner city ER
• Nurse Sean
  The Ups and Downs of My First Year in the ICU
• Learning To Catch Babies
  The adventures of a student midwife
• Life Lessons
• The Travel Nurse
• Licensed 2 Ill
  Warning:This Blog is for Mature Readers
• Cosmic Watercooler
  Somewhere down the hall, an IV pump keeps beeping…
• The Underside of Nursing
  Just start reading anywhere - you won’t be disappointed!
• Nurse William
  Relax. This will only hurt for a few seconds.
• Mark on the World
  My parents left their Mark on the world, and that would be me.
• ERnursey
  An ER Nurse’s blog
• Till I Run Out of Road
  My Long Journey Back Home
• It Shouldn’t Happen In Health Care
  My reflection on the funny side of the consulting room door and a hint at life in general.
• Mostly True Stories
  Tales from nursing school, travel, labor and delivery, and the bathroom
• Sinus Arrythmia
  Welcome to my working world. It’s basically sinus, but anything but regular rhythm
• Stethoscopes and Diapers
  This blog was started as a way to chronicle my adventures as a nursing student
• Milliner’s Dream
• Researchgrrl
  Somewhere I can come to share my thoughts, however inane, with some poor sucker bored enough to read them.
• crzegrl.net
  Life and Times of a Flight Nurse
• Crass-Pollination: Nurse Kelly’s ER Blog
  An ER blog
• Orientedx3
  The best of nursing on the web
• A Fledgling Nurse Blog
  …And now she’s a nurse!
• Developmental Milestones
• Lost on the Floor
  Tales of a (new) nurse
• Reflections of a Clinical Support Nurse
• Mousethinks
• Musings of a Highly Trained Monkey
  The vast majority of the things I do on a daily basis merely require opposable thumbs
• Picklecakes
  I like pickles. And cakes
• InterOpNurse
• A Hearty Life
• My Blog
  OB nursing, family, Florida, etc
• March of the Platypi
  An infinite continuum of WTF? moments
• What School Doesn’t Teach About Being a Nurse Practitioner
  …real 411 on the life of a new practitioner.
• Meow
• ISED8U
  Adventures in Anesthesia
• Midnight Nightengale
  RN who works both day (as a mom) and night (in a hospital).
• Nursing Research: Show Me the Evidence!
• Nursing POV: Blog Community From Advance
• ER Murse
  Trials and Tales of ER and Informatics Mursing.
• Nursa Minor
  Nurse Bear, Blogger-at-large
• Counting Sheep
  Tales from the nurse anesthesia front, and some other yarns
• raecatherine almost on the water
  Almost on the water
• This Won’t Hurt a Bit
  A slightly neurotic nurse and her blog.
• The Perpetual Search for Personal Nirvana
  …a state of time and place where few people arrive, and even fewer get to remain for but a few seconds.
• Nurse Practitioners in Business
  Resources for NPs in Business
• Life With Premature Boys
• NursingLink
  Where Nurses Call the Shots
• Rebirth
  Labor nurse has been reborn and shares her experiences as a nurse, student, woman, and blogger
• New Nurse Jane
• Drug Pusher
  Pondering the eternal question - is the bedpan half full or half empty?
• The Good, the Bad and the Putrid
  A new graduate nurse making the transition into the working world.
• Too Fat For Ponies, RN, BSN
  I haven’t lost the weight gained in nursing school… YET!
• Marijke: Nurse Turned Writer
  Join me as I write about the newest in health and safety news
• A Float Floor RN
  Stories from my career
• Nurse’s Thoughts
  What’s on my mind?
• RehabRN
  The daily fun and excitement from the perspective of an RN one year status post BSN
• A Place I Call Home
  All about a city girl gone smalltown.
• Lemon Tree Forest
• 5 West Nursing
  The 5 West innovative communication board! Real nurses getting real! Really.
• Adventures of GuitarGirl RN
• RealityRN
  New Nurses, Real Conversations
• Scoobers
  These are the ramblings of an RN who works nights on an Oncology/BMT Unit
• StorkNurse
  Labor and Delivery nurse on the verge of something…
• Young and Restless Nurse
  Descriptions and random thoughts of a young nurse leader.
• A Window For Your Home
  (David Tasma to Dame Cicely Saunders, Founder of modern hospice)
• Nursing Around
  Take a peek at the world of the professional carer
• Patient Observations
• Miss-Elaine-ious RN
  A new grad emergency nurse with some things on her mind.
• 20 Out of 10
  Musings of An Emergency Room Nurse
• Prn Penguin
  One should always have a penguin when needed
• Nurstory
  The Queen of Everything
• Nurse Buttercup
  A few days in the life of an RN
• RnLife.com
• Nurse’s Life Blog
  The unpredictable life of a telemetry and float nurse
• ER Nurse Journal
  Walking the wire as an ER nurse
• U No PP - I Know PP
  A Day in the Life of Dialysis Nursing

Student Nurses of the Blogosphere

• You Know You Wanna
  A Sneak Peak Into My Crazy Life as I Try to Get Through Nursing School
• Raspberry Stethoscope
  …graduating in August!:)
• The D-Log Cabin
  I’m an EMT, work retail(for the health insurance), and am working towards my RN degree.
• The Natural Blue
• Not Nurse Ratched
  …back to school to become a nurse (BSN) after being a freelance (mostly medical) editor for much of my “adult” life.
• Nursing School Chronicles
• Scrubs and Spit Up
  A new mommy’s journey to become a nurse.
• Kisses and Compliments
  No matter how hard things may seem, the diamond in your soul is harder.
• Days of My Life
  …tales of my crazy life as a nursing student and government slave…
• Life in the Emergency Department
  Serving the Economically, Socially Challenged and Pharmaceutically Intelligent…
• How I Spent My Nursing Education
  …tales of my crazy life as a nursing student and government slave…
• Brain Scramble
  A Nursing Student on all Things Health Care
• Altered Mental Status and Other Vital Signs
  Just another student nurse blog.
• Ashley’s Anatomy
  I am starting an accelerated MSN program, concentrating in midwifery.
• Guardian Angel Acosta
• Hope2BRN
  Married, mother of 2 children, nursing student
• The Oracle
  The adventures of a student nurse
• Nerdy (not-quite) Nurse
  Thoughts and reflections on being a student nurse
• Wounded Healer
  Observations of a nursing student
• Life of a Male Student Nurse
  My experiences going through nursing school.
• Paging Dr. Nurse
  Basically, I’m geekin’ out.
• Mursing
  Journal of a male nursing student
• As the Pump Turns
  I knew I wanted to be a nurse when I was five years old, it basically has never changed,