Welcome to my fledgling nursing blog, Change in Mental Status. I’ve wanted to do this site for some time, and figured now was as good as any. I struggled with what to call it, and its title may change, but for now, I thought Change in Mental Status about summed it up. It’s an admitting diagnosis I often see at the hospital where I work, and what other than a change in MS could drive an almost-40ish woman back to the grueling grind of nursing school? Additionally, the letters MS hold multiple meanings for me, all of them always changing. But more on that later.

Im not yet exactly sure what I’ll do with this site — what will become of it — but I guess that’s part of the experiment. I do, however, know a couple of things:

1. I’m going to try my darndest to keep it honest and true. My husband says I’m prone to exaggeration. He tells me this about a million times a day, and it is SO not true! Ooops! See? There I go again, exaggerating. The point is, I’ve read a lot of nursing blogs, and sometimes I think they might be a little, well, embellished for dramatic effect. I know I have a tendency to overdramatize things, so I’m going to work on avoiding that here.

2. I’m also going to try really hard to keep this as anonymous as possible, in honor of those really perplexing HIPAA laws. This will be difficult for me, too, as I tend to like to tell things in as much detail as possible.

I know I’ll think of more “rules” as I wander along, but for today, I think two is enough, yes? I look forward to sharing my lil’ ol’ journey with the vast blogosphere out there. Stop and say hi sometime, won’t you?