Why did l choose nursing for a career?
Did you hear about the nurse who died and went straight to
hell?? It took her two weeks to realize she wasn't at work!
You may be a nurse if..... You believe that every patient needs
TLC...Temazepam, Lorazepam and Chlorpromazine.
You would like to meet the inventor of the nurse buzzer system
some night in a dark alley.
You believe not all patients are annoying, some are unconscious.
Your sense of humor gets more warped each year.
Your kids get their presents in TED stockings and hospital
pillowcases. And their presents are wrapped with Micropore tape.
You know the phone number of every late night food delivery
place by heart.
Almost everything can seem funny ... eventually.
When asked by the doctor what color that patient's diarrhoea
was, you show them your shoes. If they missed your shoes, you use the well-known "poo curry colour scale" ranging from chicken korma to spinach vindaloo.
You can identify different causes of diarrhoea by the smell of it.
Every time you walk you make a jingling noise because of all the keys, scissors and clamps in your pocket.
You can tell the pharmacist more about the medication they are
dispensing than they know.
You use bladder lavage bags to drip water onto your plants when you're on holiday.
You refuse to watch Casualty because its too much like the real
thing and it triggers flashbacks or... Your family refuse to let you watch Casualty because you spend the whole time correcting everyone and pointing out upside down X-rays.
You avoid answering the phone on your day off in case anyone
from the hospital is trying to call and beg you to work.
You've been telling stories in a restaurant and made someone at
another table throws up.
You notice that you are using even more 4 letter words than you
Did before you started nursing.
You've seriously considered catheterising your children before a
long car journey.
Every time someone asks you for a pen you can find at least 4 of
them on you. Most of them have the names of laxatives on them.
You don't get excited about blood; unless it's your own.
You live by the motto "to be right is only half the battle, to convince the doctor is more difficult"
You've basted your Christmas turkey with a 50ml syringe.
You've told a confused patient that your name was that of your
co-worker and to shout if they need help.
Eating crisps out of a clean sick-bowl is perfectly normal.
Your bladder can expand to the size of a Winnebago's water tank.
When checking the level of a patient's orientation you aren't sure
of the day yourself. Or if nightshift, the month.
You find yourself checking out other customers' veins in the supermarket queues.
You can sleep soundly at the hospital cafeteria table on your dinner break and are not embarrassed when you wake up
You avoid unhealthy looking people in the shopping centre for fear
that they will drop dead near you and you'll have to do CPR on your day off.
You throw a farewell buffet for a co-worker and use a bed sheet
for a tablecloth and bedpans to hold the nachos.
You often stay awake for 24+ hrs at a time when you work nights
and realise you don't need alcohol or drugs to hallucinate just lack of sleep...
You pull over in a layby after working nights because you are too
tired to drive home and wake up to someone knocking on your window thinking you've had a stroke because you're passed out in your car drooling.
Your finger has gone into places you never thought possible.
You've seen more penises than any prostitute.
You've sworn to have "Do Not Resuscitate" tattooed on your chest Soon.
This was from a email I got from one of my collegues, it is so so true.
