Nursing Fun Facts

While precepting a new nursing school graduate today I was reminded of the most worthless part of nursing school: The Nursing Diagnosis. Unlike a medical diagnosis which is actually based on objective reality, the nursing diagnosis is some fluffy nonsense created by some organization that really believes they are actually doing something useful. Unlike a medical diagnosis of "diabetes" or "congestive heart failure", nursing diagnoses include such gems as "Disuse Syndrome, Risk for"; "Diversional Activity, Deficient"; "Energy Field, Disturbed"; "Environmental Interpretation Syndrome, Impaired". Yes, these are actual things never used by real life nurses. Below I found a picture of what a disturbed energy field may look like:

As a matter of principle, I refuse to engage in this aspect of nursing. I vow to never, ever, ever waste my time looking for approved nursing diagnoses to include in my patient's chart. Something else I vow never to do: grade poop.

Someone spent a lot of time on this chart. And probably never ate sausage again.

Burger Master

Today was a quest to find the best burger in the area. Well, at least between 3 different burger joints because one can only eat so much ground beef in a day. I think the 3 of us (Abby, Joy, and myself) agreed that the perfect burger had a toasted bun that could contain the juice of a burger done to a medium perfection, topped simply with lettuce, grilled onions, tomato, and pickles. So here they are: 1st Ray's Hell Burger. Great toasted bun, delicious beef - no ketchup needed, encrusted in peppercorns, and done to perfection. It was so good, we can only show the empty plate and a picture of satisfied customers. The only disappointment was a pumpkin cheesecake shake which turned out to be a banana shake.

2nd The Shake Shack. The most disappointing burger in that it tasted better after doused in ketchup and mustard and someone forgot the toaster. But as a bonus, they have a Chicago Dog that's pretty amazing.

3rd the local BGR Joint in Old Town. They came in 2nd place overall with a very delicious basic burger, the best tomatoes by far, and an incredibly juicy ground beef. And of course the best coke machine in the world that has a crazy number of options including raspberry diet coke (not to bad), strawberry sprite zero (amazing), and lemon coke zero (so much better than it used to be).