Keanis Jay

Keanis Jay

They Call Me The Jazz Nurse

When I introduce myself as “Betsy Braud, the jazz nurse,” people ask what I do and why I call myself a jazz nurse. I explain that nursing is my profession; that I incorporate music into my nursing and nursing into…

Protect Yourself Against Zika Virus

For those of us living in the US. Zika has arrived in the United States, but there are ways to protect yourself against the mosquito-borne virus. With no vaccine or drugs to treat Zika, concerns about the virus are growing.…

Exposé: Nurses and Attitude

It is said that nurses are lousy. They act shabbily, dress shabbily and have no courtesy. It would not be surprising to find yourself harassed as a patient, patient relative or significant other. The patient is in pains and needs…

Funny But True

Funny but true story I came across while surfing. We have had experiences that only when we look back do we see the humour in them.   I work in a mental health facility and my favorite patients are often fighting each…

Weird: Doctors remove 40 knives from man’s stomach

Doctors found fully-extended foldable knives THE CORPORATE HOSPITAL, AMRITSAR via CNN A man in India spent two months swallowing knives and had 40 of them surgically removed from his stomach, according to the doctor who led the operation. “He had…