You booked the holiday. You paid the deposit. Your bag is half-packed in the corner of the bedroom. And four days before you are due to leave, your manager pulls you aside and says, “I am so sorry, but with the staffing situation we are going to have to ask you to cancel.”
If you have ever given or received shift report — really given it, in those eight to ten minutes between handovers when one nurse hands the lives of twelve patients across to the next — you already know something most healthcare technology projects do not. You know how to compress a complex, high-stakes situation into…
It is 9:47 in the evening and you are still at the workstation. The shift ended four hours ago. The patients are sleeping, your colleagues have gone home, and you are alone with a screen full of half-finished notes — a chart-closing ritual you have repeated almost every night of your professional life. You are…
If you have ever sat in the staff car park after a long shift, opened your banking app, and realised that another year of brutally hard clinical work has somehow added almost nothing to your bottom line — this post is for you.
If you have ever finished a twelve-hour shift, sat in your car for ten minutes before driving home because you could not face moving yet, and then opened your phone to find another patient question waiting for you — this post is for you.