A nurse is the most profound fulcrum between the patient and the care they require. And it is the intimacy of the bedside nurse that effects the most powerful leverage of all. – ian miller.
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First up, what the heck is no duff ?

Good question. Here is the answer.

OK then, who is impactednurse?

Ian Miller is a registered nurse with nearly 23 years experience working in the Emergency Department of a major teaching hospital in Canberra Australia.
He has been around a while and seen some shit stuff.
Ian also likes to dip his thoughts in ink, and when you work in a place like the ED …there’s plenty to dip.

and he thinks we’re interested?

Well… um… Ian Miller hopes to offer up an eclectic mix of reflections, tutorials and articles. They are intended to educate, to stimulate some introspection, to inform and amuse. More importantly, they are offered in the hope that they might be used as a jumping off point to inspire other nurses to think about their own practice, to explore the latest research, best practice guidelines, and to search out and deepen their knowledge, improving the quality of care they deliver.

…ok, then why “impactednurse”?

I’m glad you asked….in fact it’s an anastomosis of many different idioms .

• impactednurse : the physics behind the trauma.
• impactednurse: act stands for the Australian Capital Territory (i.e. where he lives).
• impactednurse: stands for Emergency Department (i.e. where he hangs out).
• impactednurse: is a medical term for someone who is, ahem, fecally loaded. This seemed rather an apt metaphor for his view of the current state of the public health system.
• impactednurse: nurses are a very special breed of human beings and emergency department nurses doubly so.

So there you have it. Pretty clever eh?

…not really, and anyways why are you talking about yourself in the third person?

No idea, sorry about that.