Everything in its right place.

March 2024, around 430 am, Taos NM. The car heater hadn’t caught up with the pre-dawn chill of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains as I headed out for one of my clinical rotations in nursing school. Exhausted, I ran through my daily list of what papers needed to be written, what clinical reports had to […]

It May Not Look The Way You Thought It Would.

A couple of nights ago I woke from a dream that left me feeling unsettled for a moment. I was back in the nursing school lobby during an huge orientation for the new incoming students, and was summoned to “talk” with the nursing program director.  She asked what I’d been doing since getting my nursing […]

Baby nurse, in the wild.

Written by Suchil Coffman. About five years ago, I took Steve Pehrson’s Austere Trauma course at our school, and it hooked me. With no medical background behind me, I found myself fascinated by the oft-repeated phrase, “what would you do when there is NO higher care?” I learned about sterile fields, and worked my way […]