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 […]

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 […]