Song lyrics that remind you of nursing...

"Last Dance With Mary Jane" by Tom Petty-for our underage huffers and puffers that come in from time to time.

"Don't Come Around Here No More" by Tom Petty-for frequent flyers. That video from the 80's really freaked me out as a kid.

"All Jacked Up" by Gretchen Wilson-for the ETOH involved MVA or ETOH involved assault.

"Insane In The Membrane" by Cypress Hill-for our MEs.

It's All About The He-Said-She-Said Bullsh*t" by Limp Bizkit-for domestic abuse pts.

"Why Can't We Be Friends?" by ?-for the demanding pita drugseeking dredge of society in your triage room with foot pain x3 mos wanting to know why that "whiny a$$" little kid" (peds fever that seized before we got her into triage) went back before he did.

"Like A Virgin" by Madonna-for the "immaculate conception" pregnant women (how can I be pregnant?).

"Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places" by ? -works for intubations, pelvic exams, and enemas.

My ACLS instructors told us to think of the BeeGees song "Stayin' Alive" to get the right rhythm for compressions during a code.

And it bears repeating.......
"twenty, twenty, twenty-four hrs ago, I wanna be sedated" Sedated by the Ramones (actually, my husband has that as the ringtone for when I call him.)

Whenever a death affects me a little bit more than average, cuz I got attached or it was sudden, I have to play Dont Fear the Reaper at cerebral hemmorage volume and sob my eyes out, and then Im better. Very few hard rock bands have the poetic depth of Blue Oyster Cult, and I can think of no other song that embraces death without being maudlin.

on my third night in a row , how about "highway to hell" on the way into work? Sure feels like it!!

Amy Winehouse - "Rehab"

Audioslave - "Show Me How to Live"

Dave Matthews Band - "Out of My Hands"

Dixie Chicks - "Voice Inside My Head"

The Doors - "People Are Strange" LOL, I think this should be nursing's national anthem

The Doors - "Break on Through To the Other Side"

Evanenscence - "Call Me When You're Sober"

Godsmack - "Sick of Life"

Kelly Clarkson - "Addicted"

D12 - "Purple Pills" (i take a couple uppers, i down a couple downers, but nothing compares to these blue and yellow and purple pills)

Johnny Cash and Nine Inch Nails - "Hurt"

REM - "Everybody Hurts"

For that patient with chest pain: My achey breaky heart.

When I work with traveler nurses I ALWAYS get this song in my head:
"I love to go a wandering along the mountain track and as I go I love to sing, my backpack on my back.....Vallereeeeeee, Vallerraaaaaah, Vallereeeeee, Valer rahahahahahaha.....etc!!!
I sing that song in my head all night when a traveler is around!!! ...weird, huh?

For that patient with a fever:

"I fell into a burning ring of fire and it burns, burns, burns and the flames went higher.....

Harvey Danger- Flagpole Sitta

.....Been around the world and found
That only stupid people are breeding
The cretins cloning and feeding
And I don't even own a tv

Put me in the hospital for nerves
And then they had to commit me
You told them all I was crazy
They cut off my legs now I'm an amputee, ******* you

I'm not sick but I'm not well
And I'm so hot cause I'm in hell
I'm not sick but I'm not well
And it's a sin to live so well .......

Reminds me of a very bad night..................................

I didn't go through the whole thread, but Born Free goes through my head when an OB pt comes. "Born Free, your father's a doctor, your mother's a midwife, so you're BORN FREE".