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For all nurses.
06/27/2025

For all nurses.

The Things I Never Document

They ask for notes.
Vitals. Medications. Interventions.
Blood pressure at 9:00 a.m.
Wound dressing changed at noon.
IV line flushed at 3:15 p.m.

But there is no box to tick for heartbreak.
No field for the minutes I stood
holding the hand of a man who had just lost his wife.
No template for the way I swallowed my own tears
so he could fall apart in peace.

I charted her temperature, her oxygen, her pain score.
But not the way she smiled when I braided her hair,
because she said it made her feel less like a patient,
and more like a woman again.

There’s no line to write that I paused at the door,
took a breath, whispered a prayer,
and asked for the strength to stay gentle,
even when I was breaking too.

I document the time I administered morphine,
but not how I sat beside her afterward,
listening to her talk about her late husband,
while death hovered like a shadow in the corner of the room.

I sign off tasks.
Not moments.
Not the way a teenage boy let out a sob
the moment his mother’s monitor went flat.
Not the way I caught him before he hit the floor.
Not the way I stayed long after my shift ended,
because no one should grieve alone.

The system asks for symptoms.
But it doesn’t ask for the stories.
The fears. The sacred silences.
The way I sometimes go home
carrying names I’ll never forget
and faces I still pray for in the dark.

Because nursing is more than procedures.
It is presence.
It is prayer.
It is a thousand little acts of love
that never make it into the report.

So if you ask what I do,
know this:

Yes, I take vitals.
Yes, I give meds.
But I also bear witness.
To life.
To death.
To pain.
To resilience.

I am a nurse.
And the truest parts of my work
will never be documented.

Join me in congratulating JOGNN Editorial Advisory Board member, Kelly McGlothen-Bell, PhD, RN, IBCLC, on her upcoming i...
06/25/2025

Join me in congratulating JOGNN Editorial Advisory Board member, Kelly McGlothen-Bell, PhD, RN, IBCLC, on her upcoming induction to the American Academy of Nursing (Academy) as a 2025 Fellow.

06/20/2025

Watch the video below to hear Kortney James, Associate Editor of NWH, discuss a new study in JOGNN, "Relationships Among Endorsement of the Superwoman Schema and Health Outcomes"!

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