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R.E. Hengsterman is a registered nurse, medical writer, Pushcart Prize–nominated, award-winning fiction writer, and educator with more than three decades of experience in healthcare. Author of the Shift Workers Paradox @ nursewhowrites.com
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@nursewhowrites.bsky.social @nursewhowrites.bsky.social · 1d
A moment caught between faith and fatigue, between movement and meaning. Literary fiction for those who read what others scroll past.
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@nursewhowrites.bsky.social @nursewhowrites.bsky.social · 2d
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#functionalnurse #nurselife #nursing

Are you financing someone's dream? The cautionary tale of those selling a promise of independence and freedom...
The Functional Nurse vs. Hustle Culture
Why the Instagram Dream of Economic Freedom— Wine Glass, Beach Photo, Luxury Car — Isn’t the Whole Story.In the age of polished Instagram reels and TikTok sound-bites, it’s too easy for nurses (and al...
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@nursewhowrites.bsky.social @nursewhowrites.bsky.social · 3d
“HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated there’s a 1,135% chance you’ll find a story in this book that moves you.”
Sometimes numbers exaggerate. Sometimes they don’t.
This one feels about right.

#ThePaperBoyAndTheWinterWar #LiteraryFiction #RobertFKennedyJr #Books #ModernFiction #IndieAuthor
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@nursewhowrites.bsky.social @nursewhowrites.bsky.social · 3d
She found comfort in the routine: staff bending his limbs against contractures, laying bony prominences on pillows as if into coffins.

#NurseWhoWrites#ThePaperBoyAndTheWinterWar
#LiteraryFiction #ModernShortStories #NurseAuthor
#Human #read

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@nursewhowrites.bsky.social @nursewhowrites.bsky.social · 4d
www.nursewhowrites.com/post/if-we-l... #NurseWhoWrites
#ScienceOverMyth #EvidenceBased #PublicHealth
#HealthLiteracy #VaccinesSaveLives #TrustScience
#VaccinesWork #ImmunologyMatters #VaccineEducation
#InScienceWeTrust #ProScience #ScienceNotSilence
If We Left Biology to Human Choice
What if we could decide which of our body’s systems ran — and when?Imagine an app that lets you toggle survival itself: • Heartbeat: Pause when tired. • Breathing: Disable during stress. • Pain: Mute ...
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@nursewhowrites.bsky.social @nursewhowrites.bsky.social · 4d
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#stroke #coldshowers #NurseWhoWrites #ShiftWorkersParadox #HeartHealth #CardiovascularWellness #EvidenceBased
Cold Showers in the Morning: Risk, Hype, and the Truth Beneath the Ice
It’s making the rounds again — the claim that cold showers cause nearly two-thirds of all strokes. Spoiler: they don’t. But like most health trends that get boiled down (or in this case, chilled down)...
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 6d
Sign of the day…
Vaccines cause adults not autism
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@nursewhowrites.bsky.social @nursewhowrites.bsky.social · 6d
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“Root cause” was never a wellness invention—it’s the foundation of medicine itself. #rootcause #functionalnurse #nursing #TheNurseWhoWrites #NurseWriters #NurseAuthor
#HealthWriter #MedicalWriting #NarrativeMedicine #EvidenceBasedCar
The Hijacking of “Root Cause”: How Social Media Turned a Medical Principle into a Hashtag
Scroll through your feed and you’ll see it everywhere: wellness influencers, supplement brands, and self-styled “functional practitioners” promising to “address the root cause.” The phrase has become ...
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@nursewhowrites.bsky.social @nursewhowrites.bsky.social · 6d
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#TheNurseWhoWrites#LiteraryFiction #ShortStories #SouthernGothic #BookRecommendation #FictionWriter #PushcartPrize #IndieAuthor #NurseWriter #ModernSouthernFiction #AmericanLiterature #SmallTownStories #BookLaunch #BookCommunity #fiction

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"Your Only Fan" by R.E. Hengsterman — Across The Margin
"Your Only Fan" by R.E. Hengsterman — Across The Margin
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@nursewhowrites.bsky.social @nursewhowrites.bsky.social · 6d
This book lives in the soft rot between memory and mercy—where grief hums through the walls and the past won’t stay buried.

Stories for those who know small towns carry ghosts.
Stories for those who grew up watching someone disappear by degrees.
Preorder Now
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@nursewhowrites.bsky.social @nursewhowrites.bsky.social · 7d
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#NurseWhoWrites #NurseWriter #NarrativeNursing
#StoriesInMedicine #HumanizingHealthcare
When Nursing Becomes a Brand: Ethics, Crowds, and Commerce
There was a time when nurses didn’t need a “personal brand.” The work was the identity. The uniform, the license, the oath—all spoke for themselves.But scroll through social media in 2025, and you’ll ...
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@nursewhowrites.bsky.social @nursewhowrites.bsky.social · 7d
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#NurseWhoWrites #NurseWriter #NarrativeNursing #StoriesInMedicine #HumanizingHealthcare
The Cost of Linguistic Drift
Somewhere along the pandemic timeline, the word “vaccine” lost its footing — replaced by a single, punchy syllable: jab.The term isn’t new. In the U.K., “jab” has been shorthand for “injection” since ...
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@nursewhowrites.bsky.social @nursewhowrites.bsky.social · 7d
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#NurseWhoWrites #NurseWriter #NarrativeNursing
#StoriesInMedicine #HumanizingHealthcare
The Rise of the Functional Nurse: When Healing Turns Inward
It often starts with a personal health crisis.A nurse—burned out, disillusioned, or broken by a system that rewards resilience over recovery—steps away from the bedside. After years of twelve-hour shi...
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@nursewhowrites.bsky.social @nursewhowrites.bsky.social · 7d
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#NurseWhoWrites #TheNurseWhoWrites #RNHumans
#NurseWriter #WritingNurse #HealthcareVoices
We’re All Fallible — Why This Moment Calls for Grace and Accountability
A headline rolled through my feed this week: a nurse who’d been honored for extraordinary bedside care is now out of a job after allegedly telling officers during a DWI stop, “I’ll let you die” — and ...
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@nursewhowrites.bsky.social @nursewhowrites.bsky.social · 7d
www.nursewhowrites.com/post/when-sc... #nursewhowrites #health #antivax #RN #fluvaccine
When Science Meets Facebook: The Myth of Seeing “Heavy Metals” in Someone’s Eyes
This week, a post slid through my feed—the kind that makes you pause somewhere between disbelief and despair. A self-described “concerned citizen” claimed to have witnessed a healthcare worker receivi...
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