catechist

I'm not a nurse, however I have the utmost respect for nurses, and used to do volunteer work in our hospitals ED. Anyway I was just recently in the hospital for a diagnostic procedure, and requested my nurse to get me some hot water for tea. I instructed her to microwave the water (not knowing the had a coffee machine with a hot water spigot.) when she came to my room bearing the cup of hot water, she informed me that she was standing at the microwave, waiting for it to heat the water when it "ocured to her that the coffee machine had this feature.) This caused her to ask herself "why she was standing there waiting for the water to heat." My reply to her was "You know you've been a nurse to long when you receive orders fro a patient, and blindly obey them." I hope you get a chuckle out of this. Also I did think of a couple I didn't see. You know you've been a nurse to long when: It's your day off, and when your husband gets home, from work, you feel obliged to give report, because your going off duty.