Do I LOOK Like A Nurse To You?

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Thanks Christina Aguilara! This past week end I attended a holiday party and the discussion moved on from "what kind of car do you drive?" to "what do you do for a living?" . When I replied that I was a Registered Nurse I was met with gasps, a few snickers and some lewd comments, along with "funny, you don't look like a nurse!". Now folks, I am not some blond bombshell busting out of my scrub top, teeting on 6 inch Manolos while applying lip gloss. I present a clean appearance and a conservative outward appearance.

This leads me to ask....what the heck does a nurse look like anyway? Anyone else get a goofy reaction like mine?

I"m a 260 lb male, so I REALLY don't look like a nurse, though I could try on the high heels and tight skirt lol

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I"m a 260 lb male, so I REALLY don't look like a nurse, though I could try on the high heels and tight skirt lol

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: That is so cute. I can see it now! Hey, where have you seen nurses in tight skirts and high heels these days? LOL. We nearly all wear scrubs and sneakers! LOL. You have a great sense of humor too! I love it! God bless everyone! Merry Christmas to you all! Don't you just love down to earth people! I cannot stand to work with stuffy, stuckup know it alls! Give me friendly, funny and compassionate coworkers anyday!:balloons:

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:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: That is so cute. I can see it now! Hey, where have you seen nurses in tight skirts and high heels these days? LOL. We nearly all wear scrubs and sneakers! LOL. You have a great sense of humor too! I love it! God bless everyone! Merry Christmas to you all! Don't you just love down to earth people! I cannot stand to work with stuffy, stuckup know it alls! Give me friendly, funny and compassionate coworkers anyday!:balloons:

Thanks, and I agree. And no, I've yet to see a nurse anywhere wearign skirts and high heels. Though at one nursing home I had clinicals, a few wore long, loose skirts for religious reasons, but that was it.

I much prefer friendly and funny. If your co-workers can't stand you, what makes you think the patients will? LOL

btw, all that and I give good back rubs too ;)

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Thanks, and I agree. And no, I've yet to see a nurse anywhere wearign skirts and high heels. Though at one nursing home I had clinicals, a few wore long, loose skirts for religious reasons, but that was it.

I much prefer friendly and funny. If your co-workers can't stand you, what makes you think the patients will? LOL

btw, all that and I give good back rubs too ;)

:) Your patients should do very well, a good back rub and a few good laughs is probably just the right prescription!

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:) Your patients should do very well, a good back rub and a few good laughs is probably just the right prescription!

Most of my co-workers don't mind it either LOL

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:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Deanna, what a great nurse you will be! That sense of humor is just what the doctor ordered! It would be fun working with a funny nurse! Not to mention the happiness of some patients (not the stuffy ones) who love a good laugh! God bless you girl! You will do just fine!

I hope so, Mistorri!

I can tell you that I've never been happier or more personally gratified since giving up my very well paying career to go back to school & make a pittance as a CNA. :chuckle

Anyway, thank you for your kind words... when people tell me those kinds of things... it keeps me going. I have only just completed 1st semester for the ADN program... so I've still got a long way to go.

It's actually fun doing homework with my kids, lol!

GOd bless you, too. And Merry Christmas!!!!!

Deanna

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I have never had pretty legs, but after a few years of nursing in the hospital, I love the feel of those calves as I put lotion on now, they have changed so much! ha! And, I do believe it is the carriage, doing Christmas shopping I noticed it in myself, no time to stand around and wait, weaving in and out of people with the pace of a nurse!

I know, the legs are in great shape, and this is despite the fact I have muscle problems! No one can keep up with me at the mall. I tease my teenage daughters that they are shopping wimps!:uhoh3:

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Who cares?

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Look like a nurse - well, yep - got two eyes, two ears, a nose and a mouth.

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You know... I had a strange occurance like this also. I'm an ER nurse from Georgia, and had gone with my unit director to Boston for business. While there, a member of our group started complaining of calf pain (and had a hx of DVT). We took her to a local ER, and waited while they ran the standard tests.

While she was in US, we decided to sneak outside and be naughty. We were in "normal" clothes, smoking (I know I know), laughing and joking around when this disheveled guy with jaundiced scleras comes up to us and asks,"You guys wouldn't happen to be nurses would you?"

We stopped.... looked at each other kind of stunned and replied,"Well... as a matter of fact yes we are." He then asked,"What does it mean when your eyes are yellow?" Needless to say he was using, and we got him to go and check in with the triage nurse. But to this day we wonder what it was that "marked" us as nurses. We were outside...... normal clothes.... no tote bags or jewelry that had anything to do with nursing. He had just been dropped off so he hadn't heard any of our previous conversations---We must "look" like nurses. ????

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I"m a 260 lb male, so I REALLY don't look like a nurse, though I could try on the high heels and tight skirt lol
:chuckle Well said mate :)

I'm about average height, slightly muscular and have now successfully grown a beard (it's coming along well now). I grew the beard because if I shave it off, I look like I'm about 12.:rotfl:

Nobody believes a guy like me is in Nursing school. Half my family still thinks I'll be going on to become an MD.

And as regards all those comments - I tend to believe that when people really need me, they won't care that I don't look like the 'typical' nurse.

And I know the guys specially understand this - but I am about sick and tired of the "Hey, have you seen 'Meet The Parents' ?" questions.... (and now, "Meet The Fockers")

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