A graduate nurse..........

[debRNo1]

:roll

A Graduate Nurse throws up when the patient does.

An experienced nurse calls housekeeping when a patient throws up

A Graduate Nurse wears so many pins on their name badge you can't read it.

An experienced nurse doesn't wear a name badge for liability reasons

A Graduate Nurse charts too much.

An experienced nurse doesn't chart enough.

A Graduate Nurse loves to run to codes.

An experienced nurse makes graduate nurses run to codes.

A Graduate Nurse wants everyone to know they are a nurse.

An experienced nurse doesn't want anyone to know they are a nurse.

A Graduate Nurse keeps detailed notes on a pad.

An experienced nurse writes on the back of their hand, paper scraps, napkins, etc.

A Graduate Nurse will spend all day trying to reorient a patient.

An experienced nurse will chart the patient is disoriented and restrain them.

A Graduate Nurse can hear a beeping I-med at 50 yards.

An experienced nurse can't hear any alarms at any distance.

A Graduate Nurse loves to hear abnormal heart and breath sounds.

An experienced nurse doesn't want to know about them unless the patient is symptomatic.

A Graduate Nurse spends 2 hours giving a patient a bath.

An experienced nurse lets the CNA give the patient a bath.

A Graduate Nurse thinks people respect Nurses.

An experienced nurse knows everybody blames everything on the nurse.

A Graduate Nurse looks for blood on a bandage hoping they will get to change it.

An experienced nurse knows a little blood never hurt anybody.

A Graduate Nurse looks for a chance "to work with the family."

An experienced nurse avoids the family.

A Graduate Nurse expects meds and supplies to be delivered on time.

An experienced nurse expects them to never be delivered at all.

A Graduate Nurse will spend days bladder training an incontinent patient.

An experienced nurse will insert a Foley catheter.

A Graduate Nurse always answers their phone.

An experienced nurse checks their caller ID before answering the phone.

A Graduate Nurse thinks psych patients are interesting.

An experienced nurse thinks psych patients are crazy.

A Graduate Nurse carries reference books in their bag.

An experienced nurse carries magazines, lunch, and some "cough syrup" in their bag.

A Graduate Nurse doesn't find this funny.

An experienced nurse does

[Gator,SN]

LOL, I've read this before, but still think it's funny ......and true!!!

:roll

[Dave ARNP]

Graduate nurse = me 1 year out of NP school.

Expeirenced nurse = me now.

Wait... thats not true. I still do most of the graduate stuff.

And I have soo many refrence book in my bag I practically need a suit case.

Dave

[Erin RN]

That was sooo funny!!:chuckle and so true..I remember being the graduate nurse many yrs ago..Alas, now I am the cough syrup carrying experienced nurse!!:roll :roll

Erin

[Sable's mom]

"A Graduate Nurse doesn't find this funny.

An experienced nurse does"

True, true!! I was LOL.:chuckle

[jnette, ASN, EMT-I]

heh heh heh heh....

I'm there somewhere in the middle...

[TitaniaSidhe]

love it...

[EmeraldNYL, BSN, RN]

Yep, I'm definitely a graduate nurse.

[lilma_k]

hey..i carry a paperback book in my pocket..so that means i'm experienced, huh

[gauge14iv, MSN, APRN, NP]

MD Terminator - based on your sigline - uh - paragraph - you would really enjoy the Sweet Potato Queens Big ass cookbook and financial planner if you havn't read it already. I highly recommend it for followers/worshipers of the southern belle methods. There are actually 3 books in the Sweet Potato Queens collection - all of them are so riotous they make my sides hurt and my eyes water.

[palesarah]

excellent! 6 months put of school and I'm well on my way to being an "experienced nurse"! (Oh, wait, maybe that's not such a great thing? :chuckle:)

although I don't carry cough syrup, I carry Pepto Bismol

[Rapheal]

I wondered why I started writing things on the back of my hands and arms. Turns out I am not becoming unorganized, I'm just experienced now.:)