Experienced Nurse vs. Graduate Nurse

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A Graduate Nurse throws up when the patient does....An Experienced nurse calls housekeeping when a pt. throws up

A Graduate Nurse wears so many pins on their name tag you can't read it....An Experienced Nurse doesn't wear one 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 detaild notes on a pad...an Experienced Nurse writes on the back of their hand, paper scraps, napkins, ect.

A Graduate Nurse will spend all day trying to orient a patient...An Expereinced 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 know about them unless the patient is symptomatic.

a Graduate Nurse spends 2 hours giving a patient a bath...an Expereinced Nurse lets the CNA give the pt. 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 Expereinced 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 at all costs.

A Graduate Nurse expects supplies and meds 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 Expereinced Nurse will insert a Foley cath.

A Graduate Nurse alwaays answers their phone...an Expereinced Nurse checks thier 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 thier bag...an Experienced Nurse carries magazines, lunch and some "cough medicine" in thier bag.

A graduate nurse doesn't find this funny...an Experienced Nurse does.:p

Originally posted by Dplear

One other thing to go in this group....

A Graduate Nurse believes the lab when they call and tell you the speciman clotted off....an Experienced nurse knows that the lab either lost the speciman or left it out so long they could not use it.:cool:

When they use the "we never received it"; we know it means they dropped it and the vial broke, LOL

:rolleyes:

AMEN to the response - boy, have we all heard that response before!

:eek: I AM NEW TO THIS GROUP...BUT LET ME TELL YOU I HAVEN'T LAUGHED SO HARD IN I DON'T KNOW WHEN. I GRADUATED IN '98, SO I AM BECOMING MORE AND MORE THE "EXPERIENCED NURSE" AND DOING THOSE THING THE "EXPERIENCED NURSE" DOES....BUT WOW SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY, I WAS THE NEWBIE AND ALL THOSE NEWBIE TRAITS WERE RIGHT ON THE MARK.

RENEE

:eek: I AM NEW TO THIS GROUP...BUT LET ME TELL YOU I HAVEN'T LAUGHED SO HARD IN I DON'T KNOW WHEN. I GRADUATED IN '98, SO I AM BECOMING MORE AND MORE THE "EXPERIENCED NURSE" AND DOING THOSE THING THE "EXPERIENCED NURSE" DOES....BUT WOW SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY, I WAS THE NEWBIE AND ALL THOSE NEWBIE TRAITS WERE RIGHT ON THE MARK.

RENEE

another one that might be considered:

a graduate nurse dc's a foley the second she/he receives the order. an experienced nurse waits until the end of her shift. :D

Hippy.....oh so true.....:p

Originally posted by Dplear

One other thing to go in this group....

A Graduate Nurse believes the lab when they call and tell you the speciman clotted off....an Experienced nurse knows that the lab either lost the speciman or left it out so long they could not use it.:cool:

-I just had to reply to this. I have worked in a hematology lab for ten years and am a medical technologist as well as an R.N. BSN. In the lab we often use blood from purple tops a few days old as internal controls for the instruments. Purple tops have EDTA in them that when mixed properly will chelate the calcium in the blood so it won't clot, no calcium no clot. The notion of blood clotting because the hem. lab did not run it fast enough is based on ignorance and is obsured. You never got to learn this in nursing school. I have been through both schools and nursing schools don't teach jack about the lab tubes. Blood often clots when it is not promptly mixed in a purple top. And by the way I have dropped one tube in the last decade where it broke. There was enough blood left in the tube to run all of the tests.

-Don M.T. R.N

Originally posted by hippychickrn

another one that might be considered:

a graduate nurse dc's a foley the second she/he receives the order. an experienced nurse waits until the end of her shift. :D

You are so right, LOL. Good one! :-)

Specializes in CaseMtg,ONC, Med-Surg,OccMed,HH.

As a 20+ veteran of the nursing wars, it brought a great laugh after a hard day at the office. Keep up the good work.

A new nurse gives a laxative/ enema as soon as she comes on, an experienced nurse waits til the end of her shift.

Oh yeah, I can definitely relate and also remember those things I did as a new grad...and now relate to the "experienced nurse"...so true, so true. Thanks for a great laugh! And, Don, chill out...these are only jokes! :D

When I first read the topic - Graduate vs Experienced - I thought hmmmm, is that an ADN or BSN Graduate or an MSN Graduate!:eek:

I am in Graduate school for my ARNP and found this hysterical. Thanks for the laughter :D

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