Theme song to your Nursing career?

[sMoLsNurse]

Hey all,

I'm taking the Nclex tomorrow, and studying/reviewing last minute things. I jumped on allnurses for a bit of a break.

So here's my question.. What is the theme song to your nursing career?

[NotMyProblem MSN, ASN, BSN, MSN, LPN, RN]

TAPS!!!!

[Hygiene Queen]

Well, I could mine a few Ramones songs: I Wanna be Sedated, Teenage Lobotomy, My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg), I Wanna be Well... and so on and so on...

My favorite is The Dead Kennedys: I'm Working at my Job (I'm so happy/More boring by the day/ But they pay me!). Not that be a psych nurse is ever boring, but sometimes I feel like I'm stuck in a rut!

[LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN]

Really Depends...I'm probably repeating a few, and it depends on the day, time, and possibly full moon, lol..

I basically have a "playlist"...this is a condensed version:

1. Welcome to the jungle-Guns N' Roses

2. Crazy Train- Ozzy Osborne

3. What A wonderful World-Louis Armstrong

4. Beyond the Sea-Bobby Darrin

5.Thriller-Micheal Jackson

Even TV theme songs:

1.Gimme a Break

2. St. Elsewhere

3.Facts of Life

4.Laverne and Shirley-My favorite

5.Theme Song to "The Greatest American Hero" (Believe it or Not)

Hard Knock Life-Annie and Jay-Z Version

Lol..

I think my current one is: "Maneater" by Nelly Furtado and "We Will Rock You" when I plan and do have a kick-but day. I like being a "tough love" advocate

Oh.."Just Got Paid"...great song from the late 80s/early 90s...:)

Also: "Another one bites the dust"by Queen.

[Armygirl7]

Commodores "Nightshift"

and

Chic "Good Times"

Singing these always makes me giggle inside - esp. "Good Times" when the sh*t is really hitting the fan!

Whatever gets you through the night! (wait, isn't that a song too??)

[sharpeimom]

They're coming to take me away ho ho ha ha hee hee... To the funny farm... (I was a psych nurse!)

[CodeteamB]

1- Wise Up- Aimee Mann

For the acute on chronic pancreatitis in bed 6:"it's not going to stop 'til you wise up"

2- Rehab - Amy Winehouse

For many, many patients: "and I say 'no, no, no'"

3- I Fought the Law - The Clash

For the police-dog bite in Fasttrack and the man with taser electrodes in his face (ouch): "And the Law won"

4- You Can't Always Get What You Want - The Rolling Stones

For the seeker being escorted off property

5- As Is - Ani Difranco

For my new co-worker who is still killing herself trying to be nice:"so give up and admit you're an a------, you would be in some good company"

6-Suspicious Minds - Elvis

For the paranoid BPD in the psych cell and his co-dependent girlfriend

7- I Hate Everyone - Get Set Go

For me after that shift :"I hate most everybody, but most of all I hate you"

8- Breakable - Ingrid Michaelson

This is my real theme song, as it reminds me of the reasons that I wake up and do it everyday, and why at the end of the day I love my job:

"And we are so fragile,

And our cracking bones make noise,

And we are just breakable, breakable,

Breakable girls and boys"

[drowningdaily]

Since I am a night nurse, my first thought was AC/DC "You shook me all night long." Also, Peter Gabriel " Don't Give Up," and Kate Bush, "This woman's work."

[sra27]

I have many different themes, but the most repetitive is the theme song to the old children's show "Fraggle Rock". I had a co-worker several years ago who always pronounced the antibiotic "flagyl" as "flaGull" (hard g sound). To this day, every time I give that medication, the song pops into my head. Yes, I know I'm kind of warped.

[jadelpn, LPN, EMT-B]

Wish it was "Pour some sugar on me" But alas, "Smells like Teen Spirit" seems more fitting LOLOLOLOL

[Laraabdo]

"if u're going through hell!"

[nrsang97, BSN, RN]

Welcome to the Jungle fits well LOL as well as If you're going through Hell and Crazy Train.

[NurseTabL]

I personally like "Hotel California". You can clock out anytime but can't leave. Oh, also "Push it" by Salt-n-peppa for codes.