What is your Nursing Super Power?

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Inspired by the 'Super Senses' thread, and the hilarious responses.....

What is your nursing super power?

Mine is making babies poop. Especially constipated NICU babies on high-cal formula. I've literally bragged about this skill at family functions.

What is your super power?

At the hospital, my superpower was the ability to win over the most difficult doctors. Need an order from the notoriously cranky cardiologist at 2am? I'm your girl:) Need a new heparin order from the mean doc that can't just use the hospital's nomogram, but gets mad every time you follow his order and call, like he ordered!? I got you and he'll even thank me for calling! I don't know why cantankerous physicians are my speciality, but there were many shifts that I was very thankful for this superpower!

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Specializes in Pediatric Critical Care.
I can open an ampule with one hand.

....do you cheat and use your teeth or something? Does it spill all over the floor but its "open" so it counts?

I'm not calling you a liar or anything, I'm just impressed!

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I tried the single-handed ampule thing one time and 20 years later I still have the scar on my thumb to prove it. I have a couple more superpowers. My lunch buddy and I have "saved" two people from choking in the cafeteria and prevented the kitchen staff from calling a code on a visitor who got dizzy and dropped her tray. We are legends at our hospital!

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Specializes in CMSRN.

-Becky ESRN

To woo the cantankerous MD has to be the ultimate superpower in my opinion.

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Im a visiting nurse and I'm really good at getting pts who are distrustful of nursing providers, or just neglecting themselves period, to let me visit them and provide care. Even when they refused/canceled multiple other nurses trying to get in to see them, I can (usually, not always) get them to agree for me to visit over the phone.

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Specializes in LTC.

Does it count that my patient's cat acts all cute and gravitates to me??? She would wait for me almost every night by the door at the start of my shift and start mewing when she saw me, and would almost always be there at the door in the morning to be let in waiting for me and mewing. Other than that I don't think I have any super powers. :no:

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Dropping things or loudly tripping while trying to quietly peak in on my patient who just fell asleep after hours of insomnia.

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Specializes in LTC, Rehab.
Dropping things or loudly tripping while trying to quietly peak in on my patient who just fell asleep after hours of insomnia.

Ha ha. Me think this is Bizarro-world super power. Me sometimes have amazing similar negative-super-powers too.

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Not getting offended...by anything it seems. Insults, criticisms...most just roll off my back if I consider the source...and if they are right with that criticism, then I'm grateful they told me to my face rather than go behind my back and then I can work on it.

It took time to get this way, but life is much more pleasant now than it was back then. Switching to Psych definitely firm my spine up...but it was pretty firm when I came onboard.

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I am usually very good with psychiatric patients. Moreover if there is any ridiculous/difficult call to answer, I am usually the one ;)

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There's a saying by Walt Chrysler that I feel describes my life:

"Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it."

My superpower? I have a knack for getting the worst assignment on the entire floor and turning it into an easy one. I could get the most high-strung, whiny, hard-to-deal patients and have them satisfied and asleep by midnight. I also tend to make a high-acuity load look easier to my coworkers passing by because I am an expert at clustering care. I'm a couch potato by nature, and I'm usually seen languishing at my desk so much that my coworkers wonder if I ever move. I do. I certainly feel like a lot of nights like I've run myself ragged. However, if I can brag, I'm pretty good at getting a lot of stuff done in one go, so I have half an hour or so to rest in between clusters of care. I'm 100% certain that my charge has given me the worst assignment on the floor to see if I "move" more, and I don't. I'm still sitting there grinning at her with a pod full of sleeping patients when she walks by.

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My super power is that I can charm the cranky ass old men :) I take no crap and my sarcastic and dry humor means I rarely get offended.

My strength is my weakness - I tend not to relate well to those that are 'civilized and polite' lol.

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