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the cartoonist probably wasnt a nurse, but to have that in there is inappropriate. It ranks right up there with people saying "Oh, here is the mean nurse with your icky pills" Ya, try to get a confused person, or little kid to take there meds then!! Some folks just dont know when to shut up or to keep there cartoons to themselves!!!
I think it is simply HORRID. I am not a peds nurse, but know better than to ever breach the trust of a child with some game/gimmick to get him/her to take a shot. This is a sadistic and mean portrayal of peds nurses, one I don't find all that funny. Sadly, it stirs up memories of my hospitalization when I was a little girl and nurses WERE mean and stern. I don't appreciate this one a bit. It's in poor taste.
oramar
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I want everyone to know right off that this thing I am going to complain about has nothing to do with allnurses.com. Brian and his helpers would never let a thing like this get past them. I get a e-zine from Nurse Spectrum that just recently showed up in my mail box. I think it might be the first time I ever got one of those from Nurse Spectrum. Anyway is has this cartoon in it that shows a smiling child in bed looking at his nurse. She is saying "which hand". Now "which hand" is a little game that people play with children, one of the hands is supposed to have a treat and the child would know this. Instead, this nurse has two huge syringes with sharp needles and is smiling at the child. I think it is a nasty cartoon and a joke like that would be unprofessional and cruel. I don't post on Nurse Spectrum anymore but I am thinking of trying to get on line to say what I think about their little cartoon. Have any of the pediatric nurses seen that? What do they think? It set my alarm bells off for sure.