A little late for 2011 retrospectives, but, as I said, I was busy. First list: the most popular by hits. Second: my personal picks.
10 Most Popular Posts (many of which were actually posted in 2010)
1. Can We Stop the I’m-a-Male-Nurse-Who-Isn’t-Gay-Contrary-to-the-Stereotype Routine? (An oldie-but-a-goodie. By far and away the most popular post.)
2. Full Code (Have no idea why. Badly written. Needs a do-over.)
3. A Medication Error Leads to Suicide
5. More on Racism in Health Care (Suspect a Google search term.)
6. Images of Nursing: “I’m just a nurse”
7. The Placenta, The Nursing Student and the Teachable Moment (Widely tweeted and referred)
8. Florence Nightingale: Images and Words
9. A Fix for MRSA? (Ditto on the search term)
My Favourite Posts from 2011
2. Sometimes Things Ain’t What They Seem
3. In Which TorontoEmerg Discourses on Some Aspects of Human Nature
4. So When Does This Become a Crisis?
5. Three Strikes and You’re Out, and By Out, I Mean Dead
6. The Most Useless Form on the Planet
7. Don’t Tell Your Patient This. Or That.
8. On the Dying Art of the Bed Bath
9. When Nurses Write About Physician Bullies, Don’t Shoot the Messenger
10. Clinical Days: A Short History
11. Empathy
12. Accessing CVADs is Like Killing Puppies, Only Worse
Those Emergency Blues 