Live Without Dead Time
Thanksgiving weekend couldn’t have arrived at a better time. I was swamped with assignments and exams for my classes at the UCSF School of Nursing. I hadn’t had a full weekend off since the start of the quarter. My stress levels were through the roof. The air quality in Napa and the rest of the…
In the introduction to his essay, The Question Concerning Technology, Martin Heidegger prepares the reader by saying, “We shall be questioning concerning technology, and in so doing we should like to prepare a free relationship to it” (Heidegger, 1954, p. 311). A free relationship with technology, as Heidegger describes it, is one in which our…
Med-Surg Nursing During our first summer together as MEPNs, our whole cohort of about 70 students attended the same core classes Monday to Wednesday and then we split up into smaller groups for our clinical rotations on Thursdays and Fridays. In the fall, the cohort was split into two groups, A and B. Each group…