"Oh, you're a nurse? Let me tell you, in great and passionate, not to mention highly improbable detail, all about the horrible nurses I had when I was in the hospital!"
Cheezits, people! I really, really don't need to be assailed with stories about things that happened forty years before I was born, a thousand miles away. What do you want me to say? I'm sorry? Yes, you're right, nurses are really terrible people who like to tell children every night for a month that if they don't move one muscle all night they can go home the next day, but then you moved because you were JUST A CHILD so you couldn't go home and isn't that just the worst thing you ever heard? Oops, you caught us! They DO teach psychological torture techniques in nursing school! Sorry, auntie!
I'm tempted to start doing this back to people. Figure out what they do and come up with some horrendous story about someone in the same profession. "Well, this one time a dog groomer pulled out all my dog's toenails! And then offered them as a sacrifice to the Devil!"
NB: Please note that I am NOT talking about patient/family stories. For those I put on my best therapeutic communication face and am appropriately sympathetic. I'm talking about my own family members, acquaintances, and the odd random stranger.
And another fave is when someone finds out you are a nurse and hits you with every possible ailment they, their children, parents, distant relatives, etc . have had and are having and want to know what it is. Well, let me look into my crystal ball and tell you.
Bless my folks...I'm a new RN and they don't understand why I don't want a bunch of cute 'Nurse' things. I keep explaining I don't want to advertise my license in a store because I will inevitably be approached by someone I don't even know who has to tell me about their and extended family member's health problems. It isn't that I don't care about people in my community, but there is very little I can do to help.
Becca608
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Bless my folks...I'm a new RN and they don't understand why I don't want a bunch of cute 'Nurse' things. I keep explaining I don't want to advertise my license in a store because I will inevitably be approached by someone I don't even know who has to tell me about their and extended family member's health problems. It isn't that I don't care about people in my community, but there is very little I can do to help.