"I Narcanned Your Honor Student"

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After browsing Reddit today, I came across something that troubled me deeply. This is not the first time I have seen something of this nature displayed. Once I seen an EMT with a VERY similar quote on a t-shirt. Being in nursing school has allowed me to open up and become compassionate about many things.

Why would someone take humour in this situation?

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You are the girl I could not stand in nursing school! if you can't laugh at this then quit now and don't make nursing miserable for the resy of us!

PS enjoy crying all the time because people are not nice to you!

Also I work ICU in multiple hospitals and personally own this shirt!

First of all, I think it should read "Narcan'd" not 'narcanned'. Secondly, the first CIWA patient that slugs you in the stomach is gonna wipe off some of that naivete the OP sports. Thirdly, it IS funny, and hilariously so, in a dark way. I'd wear it in a heart beat

Specializes in ICU.
Side note: when did doing well in school = high and mighty? I would think anyone would be proud of that. If anything, I would think yrying to achieve it would drive someone to drugs....

I think my attitude here is just a product of the type of environment I was in during high school. The parents who had the "honor student" bumpers on their cars were typically the same people who paid for the expensive private tutors for their kids... the ones that their kids bragged did most of their homework for them, so the kids could spend their time going to their lake houses/beach houses with friends or driving their fancy new sports cars they got for their 16th birthdays instead of writing papers.

I hardly ever saw the people who actually worked their butts off for the grades throwing it around in everyone else's faces. Funny how that works.

Is this t-shirt advocacy, consciousness raising or just an individual's need to be heard?

Probably both. Both are worth great value.

Efforts might be better served by not blaming the primary support, rather educating them.

Again, this shirt may be exactly that message.

I might wear it.

"Been there, done that and now I have the t-shirt to prove it. It might have been your loved one that I saved from..."

Honesty is a mandate for nurses; but there's no need to be ugly or unprofessional about it. It doesn't inspire confidence. We're much better off working together toward better outcomes than alienating our pt base by pointing the blame at the primary support that these children have.

I think it's funny. But I'm actually a nurse, and you're.... not?

What does being a nurse have to do with her concern? Would a doctor wear a t-shirt with that on it? Or think that was ok to say outside a small circle? Dark humor is used by some to cope, but not publicly. As health care providers, we must maintain a sense of public decency. Frustration and stress does not give license to say and do whatever we want. I've worked in a unit where dark humor was used all the time, but never out in public.

Try working in EMS for 15 years and nursing for 7; you'll get it then....

Sorry, there are people with way more experience than that who don't think that's ok outside a private conversation. A person's concerns has nothing to do with the number of years they work. Neither does aquisition of professionalism.

Specializes in Critical Care.

I enjoy morbid, dark healthcare humor, the more twisted the better, but by definition this is humor that only those of us in healthcare will appreciate, so putting it on a bumper sticker shows a poor understanding of how dark healthcare humor works.

It's one thing to share this joke among coworkers who might find it funny, but to direct dark healthcare humor randomly at the public which may include those who are the butt of the joke, which is what a bumper sticker does, is basically sociopathic. I'm curious how many really feel it would be fine to walk up to someone who as far as you know may be the parent of a child who died of opiate abuse and tell them this joke.

I hardly ever saw the people who actually worked their butts off for the grades throwing it around in everyone else's faces. Funny how that works.

Interesting observation.

I would concur, the ones who can get something done may often not be the braggarts of any particular group.

While I certainly understand the need for dark humor on occasion to cope with the sad reality of things we face as health care providers, I personally do not find this funny (but do not judge those who do)! This opioid epidemic is terrible and I see it everyday not just as a nurse, but as a human outside of work. I see how we create it Day in and day out in our patient by over medicating them and the end result is a physical addiction that then leads to illegal use and all too frequently overdose.

Again, while I understand the humor behind it and understand why some think this is a way of stating it's not just "junkies" or "criminals" but smart well off and otherwise well adjusted people that this hits, for me... this is not effective! The addicted is one of my favorite populations and this crisis is one in which I am very passionate about. I try and think of ways I or we can make a difference and not a joke. I struggle when I speak to the doctors I work for expressing my concern about the fact that we are over medicating a patient who is clearly seeking and shows no sign of pain (I know it's subjective), but in turn I am told "everyone's pain is different" but it's clear it's just easier to medicate then to constantly be hounded for more meds, or get bad reviews... we are doing no one any justice here!

Again I do not think anyone who finds this funny is wrong, I just think we need to find a better way and help find a solution instead of laughing off the tragedy!!

I think it's something to not let the general public see. It could be very hurtful to someone

who's loved one was an Honors Student who died from a drug OD.

Sucks for them, I had to deal with their child dying because they didn't intervene sooner... Guess how many faces of dead patients I have to see in my thoughts/memories... I'll laugh at a shirt any time I want toí ½í¸®

I am an RN, and my son was narcanned just over a year ago. After dying in the ambulance and a 6 day coma that resulted in brain damage, if anyone should take "offense" to this, I think I would qualify. Instead, I have to agree with the majority, dark humor is definitely a coping mechanism. Sorry, but even I laughed at this....

I'm so sorry for your loss.

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