Some of us are blessed to still have our moms; some of us are blessed with memories.

OK, I can't help myself. I'm in an incredibly silly mood as I sit to write my blog today. And I was thinking about how we as nurses see the world differently from "normal" folks. We are a sister- and brotherhood of odd humorists. Because if we can't laugh at it, we can't be a nurse!

So I was reading this article in a publication related to improving patient-centered care. It stressed that essential to delivering that type of care would be physician/patient-centered communication skills.

A recent article in "Research Activities Report," an AHRQ publication, was titled "Primary Care Coordination is More Difficult for Patients Who See Many Specialists." The study "suggested" that a patient's high use of specialists might strain the primary care practitioner's ability to coordinate care. Really?

I think you can tell a lot about a person by what is in his or her nightstand.

We do a lot of "stuff" in nursing that makes no sense (both in acute care and long-term care — I'm not singling us out here). We do a lot of things that waste precious time and are definitely not evidence based. Let's take a look at some myth busters.

So right around Thanksgiving I was watching a trivia game show and the question came up: "What do 23% of Americans have for Thanksgiving?" My immediate thought was, "A burning desire to discover that they were adopted."

I have to wonder why, when some people get in a "power" position, they kind of turn into real ... dictators. We've all seen it, everyone from the nursing assistant who gets promoted to mentor "newbies," to CEOs of large associations or corporations, to some in political positions. Maybe they feel serving their own needs outweighs others.

So here's a Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) 101 primer so you will understand why I am so upset.

Do you ever sometimes just want to say, "I'm not buying that one" when you get some absolutely bizarre excuse from a staff member as to why she called out?