Experienced Nurse vs. Graduate Nurse

[Dplear]

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.

[nursebedlam]

halarious :rotfl: :rotfl:

[mushberry]

haha, very cute. I'm just about to be a grad nurse, starting work on Monday. I wonder how many will apply to me. :chuckle

[Angela Mac]

:rotfl: lol... so truthful it hurts :rotfl:

[getbabygirl]

Hello Everyone,

I heard that there was one just like this one but is called ER Nurse VS ICU Nurse but I haven't been able to find it. If anyone does please PM me....

[kmbrly67]

OTFLMAO=On the floor laughing my a-- off

ROFLMAO= roll on the floor laughing my a-- off

ROFLPIMP= roll on the floor peeing in my pants

Any one know any more of these??

[Nurse4TI]

:roll HEhehehehehehehehe. Guess which one I am. (lmfao)

[GaleSRN, BSN, RN]

A graduate nurse comes to work with her pretty new expensive stethoscope. The experienced nurse uses whatever is around because the Doctors will walk away with them anyway; along with the pens and your cup of coffee.

A graduate nurse reads the H and P thoroughly and writes up care plans; the experienced nurse has seen whatever the patient has so many times, she doesn't need to read the H and P (she/he could probably write it better than the Resident). She makes the Graduate nurse write the care plan.

[CapeCodMermaid, RN]

Funny except for the catheter comment.