A giggle for all the nurses... Top 10 Reasons to Become a Nu

Nikipowpez
Nikipowpez Posts: 60 Member
edited September 28 in Chit-Chat
Top ten reasons to become a nurse:

1. Pays better then fast food, though the hours aren't as good.

2. Fashionable shoes and sexy white uniforms.

3. Needles: "Tis better to give than receive"

4. Reassure your patients that all bleeding stops... eventually.

5. Expose yourself to rare, exciting and new diseases.

6. Interesting aromas.

7. Curteous and infallible doctors who always leave clear orders in perfectly legible handwriting.

8. Do enough charting to navigate around the world twice.

9. Celebrate all the holidays with your friends - at work.

10. Take comfort that most of your patients survive no matter what you do to them.

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  • psb13
    psb13 Posts: 629
    good one!! :laugh:
  • ravenclawseekergirl
    ravenclawseekergirl Posts: 342 Member
    Personally i found number five hilarious.
    I'm so glad that i'm not going into adult or child nursing but into psychiatric not that most of this doesnt apply.
  • vsyates
    vsyates Posts: 373 Member
    I liked this -- even though I'm not a nurse :smile:
  • Hernandezedw
    Hernandezedw Posts: 284
    #10 scares me a little.
  • shelcof
    shelcof Posts: 62 Member
    All true, but will need updated as alot of places don't do handwritten orders from doctors anymore. (THANK GOD)

    I may just have to steal this and post at work! LOL
  • Goal_Seeker_1988
    Goal_Seeker_1988 Posts: 1,619 Member
    This is why I am just a CNA! LOL. Although as a CNA I get to:

    Get called an *kitten* wiper as an occupation.

    Get yelled @ by my LPN and RN

    Put myself @ risk for all new illnesses

    Pray I don't catch a cold from the residents after they cough all over me.

    Get scatched and pinced from combative residents.

    I guess I'd rather wipe *kitten* then to stick needles in other people!
  • MontanaB
    MontanaB Posts: 439 Member
    made me giggle..

    luckily most of the docs at my hospital now use Ipads and tablets to do a lot of the prescriptions and the like.. :)
  • kmarx65
    kmarx65 Posts: 28
    Love it!
  • jpowell3976
    jpowell3976 Posts: 144 Member
    So true & funny!
  • NA_Willie
    NA_Willie Posts: 340 Member
    It sounds like at least there are some nurses in this thread; I have a question I would like answered. Why when I get blood drawn at my doctors office when some do it I dont even notice it is going on and when other nurses do it it hurts like a *kitten*? Isnt there some kind of uniform standard? I sometimes wish that there was a blood drawing request line.
  • ravenclawseekergirl
    ravenclawseekergirl Posts: 342 Member
    It sounds like at least there are some nurses in this thread; I have a question I would like answered. Why when I get blood drawn at my doctors office when some do it I dont even notice it is going on and when other nurses do it it hurts like a *kitten*? Isnt there some kind of uniform standard? I sometimes wish that there was a blood drawing request line.

    I dont really know i think that its more down to the experience that someone has. For example if i get blood taken by the nurse at my rhuematology dept who spends all day taking blood its fine. But once i had to get blood taken by a doctor because three nurses couldnt find any veins and that hurt like a b***h!
  • NA_Willie
    NA_Willie Posts: 340 Member
    I dont really know i think that its more down to the experience that someone has.
    Thats what I thought too; but it was the older nurse that was terrible and the younger nurses are much better.
  • jojopel
    jojopel Posts: 348 Member
    Love this! I'm not a nurse, but my daughter is a student nurse. She'll love this! Thanks for posting. :laugh:
  • Tiggerrick
    Tiggerrick Posts: 1,078 Member
    NA-Willie: Sometimes it has nothing to do with experience. Nerves are not visible on the skin, and sometimes we pierce right through one, sometimes not. It's the luck of the draw most of the time. Needle size has some factor in it, but not always. In my years and thousands of sticks, I've heard both "I didn't feel that" and "that hurt like a mother.".....Although, if you piss your nurse off.......
  • NA_Willie
    NA_Willie Posts: 340 Member
    Although, if you piss your nurse off.......
    Im always SUPER nice and tell them that while I may be a 31 year old man to treat me like Im a 7 year old girl.
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