Navigating the Gray Areas: When Symptoms Don’t Fit the Textbook
Real Life Isn’t Always a Case Study When I was in nursing school, I spent a lot of time studying symptoms and patterns. Chest pain meant you need to rule out a heart attack. A high blood sugar reading meant you talked about diabetes. A sore throat means you swab for strep or covid. These […]
From Blood Pressure Checks to Big Picture Care: How Routine Visits Add Up
Learning to See the Whole Picture As I first start working as a nurse in an outpatient internal medicine clinic, I’ll admit some days feel repetitive. Another round of vitals. Another vaccination. Another follow-up for a patient I saw just a few weeks ago. I don’t mind it, but at the very beginning, I didn’t […]