Nurses Humor
Published Apr 28, 2012
You know you're a nurse if...
You've been telling stories in a restaurant and had someone at another table throw up.
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NRudy
1 Post
If everytime you're on the train you have to pause and make sure every coughing person isn't choking.
teeniebert, LPN
563 Posts
...every time you go to youtube, regardless of what you're watching, the list on the right is full of surgery, er/trauma, and abscess drainage videos.
JBudd, MSN
3,836 Posts
When noone in your church will go to the ER unless they call you first to see if they really need to.
Fastewart9
2 Posts
You constantly look down for your fob that clearly isn't on because your off duty and think 'i really should get a watch'!!
SaoirseRN
650 Posts
When you and a doctor are having a serious discussion of his head cold and the quality and quantity of the accompanying "snot" and neither one of you think there is anything unusual about that.
sharpeimom
2,452 Posts
When my husbandhad a bad cold, I asked him what color the mucus he was blowing out was and he told me o stop being so gross. Oh well...
lumbarpain, ADN, RN
351 Posts
when you answer your telephone with, Third floor so and so speaking. Or Happy Hill Nursing home, can I help you?
DedHedRN
344 Posts
When you go to a restaurant, see someone who obviously has food stuck in their throat, decide to get up and go over to them, but before you can, you see the panic on their face subside, and then see them start breathing all on their own. Realize that you don't have to get up at all!
Then you realize your the only one in the place that even noticed......because your a nurse.
FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I
3,619 Posts
You're at the local Walmart, and you see a small child choking. You look around, and everyone has a bewildered look on their faces, so you go up to the child in your wheelchair, speak softly to her telling her you are going to help her while wrapping your arms around her waist, and give a strong heimlich thrust. The gum ball she had in her mouth shoots out of her mouth and rolls under the display shelf, and the frightened look on her mom's face turns to relief.
Guitar_Heroine
106 Posts
The forklift at Costco makes alerts you and makes you seek the source of the "alarm" of the overhead page in the grocery store makes you pause and listen for the location of the code.
Rhi007
300 Posts
When you run to answer the phone and answer 'area A nurse speaking?'
jere_76450
When you look like Columbo--patting every pocket looking for the vitals list--while muttering "I know I have it here somewhere". (you have to be older to get this one :)
Still do it.