caitlin morgan

student of birth, death, and the ineffable | hospice nurse | birth doula | she/her

[Alison Stuebe @astuebe]

Full day in clinic, full heart. Try asking your patient, “What’s going well?�� before asking for chief complaint. It changes everything.

[caitlin morgan @caitie_mo]

@tjcmorgan I can get her access to results by 5pm next day just reach out if you need help xx

[caitlin morgan @caitie_mo]

@juleslasaslvia it me

[caitlin morgan @caitie_mo]

@juleslasaslvia i know you know how proud i am of you 🤍 thoughts & prayers

[caitlin morgan @caitie_mo]

us, the most vanishing of all. Once
for each, only once. Once and no more.
And we too: just once. Never again. But
to have lived even once,
to have been of Earth—that cannot be taken from us."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

(3/3)

[caitlin morgan @caitie_mo]

i recently noticed a rilke collection at the bedside of an actively dying patient. when pointed out, the patient's wife opened the book and read the following,

"Why, then, do we have to be human
and keep running from the fate
we long for?

(1/3)

[caitlin morgan @caitie_mo]

Oh, not because of such a thing as happiness—
that fleeting gift before loss begins.
Not from curiosity, or to exercise the heart...
But because simply to be here is so much
and because what is here seems to need us,
this vanishing world that concerns us strangely—

(2/3)

[caitlin morgan @caitie_mo]

@eviedanforth can't lose <3

[caitlin morgan @caitie_mo]

@chaninicholas Vitex, magnesium glycinate, DIM, folate, red raspberry leaf 👌🏼✨

[caitlin morgan @caitie_mo]

@thestorynurse @nursingdean @JHUNursing wooo!!! congrats matt!!! welcome aboard 😊

[caitlin morgan @caitie_mo]

@colleenmfarrell @iwashyna @KatieHauschildt "It feels important to honor autonomy, but often these decisions don’t feel autonomous or informed." -- This says it all to me

[caitlin morgan @caitie_mo]

@sickenoughsteve am i your friend?

[caitlin morgan @caitie_mo]

@colleenmfarrell thank you for sharing colleen! your work was such a balm as i struggled to center the patient experience in nursing school. your sharing continues to challenge me in my career and personhood and for that, thank you <3

[caitlin morgan @caitie_mo]

@sickenoughsteve all my love to you <3

[Rebecca Wright, PhD, RN² @RebeccaJPW]

One of the worst parts in all this, beyond literal murder of Black men and women, is how many people are responding with disapproval about how people should behave & feel. This is an inherent racist part of White culture.

[caitlin morgan @caitie_mo]

@BaptisteDiana @JHUNursing Big love to you Dr Baptiste. I’m so grateful for you welcoming us into your story 💛

[caitlin morgan @caitie_mo]

some solace from @Newportfolkfest '19

a time of love, a time of hate
a time of war, a time of peace
a time you may embrace, a time to refrain from embracing
to everything turn, turn, turn
there is a season turn, turn, turn

🌀

https://t.co/GTuQBcxKjc

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Sometimes it takes the wisdom and resilience of those who have been marginalized for all of us to remember the importance of community and mutual aid.

[Shannon Dingle, M.A.Ed. @ShannonDingle]

Trauma life hack:

“Name it to tame it” is an axiom used in therapy circles. There is power in naming things, in putting words to your own inner story.

For starters, name this moment as a time of collective trauma. This feels like trauma because it is trauma.