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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sharpeimom
2,452 Posts
when your husband brings the dogs in after a walk and when he says they both pooped, you ask
about color and whether it was formed or more like tasty freeze.
GitanoRN, BSN, MSN, RN
2,117 Posts
you know you're a nurse if you wake-up rushing to get to work, to find out that is your off day
IEDave, ASN, CNA, LVN
386 Posts
When you're cleaning up a major code brown and wonder what's for lunch while your stomach's growling
Shucks - did that on week 1 of my CNA clinicals. Probably the one thing I did that the CI from Hades actually approved of!
Interestingly, really haven't had all that many code browns since I hit the floor "for real" (e.g. I get paid for it).
----- Dave
belle87RN
40 Posts
When you can change your dust ruffle on a full size bed using the same technique as doing a bed change on a total care patient.
You have night mares of taking care of 8-9 patients after a night of chaos and getting 4 admissions.
You know for a fact that if anyone wanted to torture you for information, that all they need to do is stick you in a room with a beeping IV pump that you couldn't turn off.
You can watch shows like Bones, CSI, NCIS, Body of Proof, etc. while eating a meal that just might include spaghetti sauce and feel perfectly normal.
You're 4 year old knows all the bones in the body (while I was in A & P) and when he started kindergarten he was telling his class about skin assessments and care planning and medication administration, to the point that I got a phone call from his teacher about words she didn't understand
"The Force is strong with this one..." :redbeathe
And, passes the NCLEX-RN on the first try - at age 8!:yelclap:
Thought of another one...
If you've ever said, "This patient's history reads like a textbook."
ninja-nurse, BSN
55 Posts
*to questout on pg 3*
You may have to be older to get the reference, but not the action! Can't tell you HOW many times I pat pockets going "now WHICH one did I put that..."
I call my report sheet my "brain". I have been known to be seen running all over the building lookin for my "brain" which is where I put my patients vital signs on!!
AMEN! My whole floor does this!
You know you're a NICU nurse when you cross-train a PICU nurse and say, "..and we have baby X, who is very old..." "How old?" "About 4 months" and the PICU RN bursts out laughing...Kudos to you peds and adult nurses. I have no idea what I would do with anything that big.
Kudos to you peds and adult nurses. I have no idea what I would do with anything that big.
Noo, honey. Kudos to YOU. I recently made my whole family laugh hysterically when, holding my 2 week old niece, I said that: "She's just too small. That's it, I'm never having kids, I'll adopt toddlers. She's just entirely too small."
AnonRNC
297 Posts
when your husband brings the dogs in after a walk and when he says they both pooped, you ask about color and whether it was formed or more like tasty freeze.
i read that as "dog" (not "dogs") and when i saw "both pooped" on the walk, i thought you meant the dog and the husband!
kmarie724
280 Posts
You know you're a nurse when your newly potty trained 3 year old gets some poop on her finger while wiping herself in the bathroom and when she starts throwing a fit about the poop on her finger, you say "it's just a little poop. Calm down and wash your hands."