"I Narcanned Your Honor Student"

Skippingtowork · Dec 26, 2017

You are new. As the years go by as a nurse there are many oxymoron in a carrier. Our humor is dark because most of what we deal with is dark. I thinks it's funny. Some of the outside world look at things in example an A student and feel it's great, but under all the happiness the students given into temptation to use drugs to help them perform better to get the A in school. Overdoses happen, alot actually. Or 14 year old becomes pregnant. Or your star athlete uses anabolic steroids. You will see it if you make it through nursing school.

This has nothing to do with whether a public comment like this is appropriate. It is not. The public believes that we take their healthcare seriously and comments like this on t-shirts and bumper stickers undermines our credibility. Do other professions think this ok? The public already marches in to doctor's offices and hospitals with defensive attitudes. Let us not contribute to distrust. What is said in the corner, needs to stay in the corner.

Niknnan · Dec 26, 2017

You make a good point, Karen.

wondern, ASN · Dec 27, 2017

To me the t-shirt/bumper sticker sounds too cocky and I like the dinosaur crushing the stick family. It's different. It's bragging you saved their kid's life. You did your job. "So what do you want a gold star?" That's my cocky response. :smokin: :jester:

Anyone with access can give Narcan, probably even a monkey if the gun was preloaded.

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The artist could at least try to spell/hyphenate their work correctly. The combination of typos and condescending attitude looks both ignorant and arrogant.

Not to mention, it's also disrespectful, and we get what we give.

Thanks for asking. It feels really good to blow off steam into thin air at no one in particular. :bugeyes:

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Makesenseplease · Jul 15, 2018

EAGIRL..."taking humor" in this case is not the same as advocating for harm to befall someone. As others have pointed out...humor is a way to relieve stress. There are those who use "honor student" to imply that they are superior to others. So..."others" push back. Rest assured that those who "take humor" would not fail to help when necessary. Humor does not preclude compassion.

debrasimons · Jul 15, 2018

What makes you think because someone is an honor student that they consider themselves high-and-mighty? I think generally speaking it's because they worked hard. That does not mean they cannot become involved with drugs but you sound as if you have a grudge against honor students

debrasimons · Jul 15, 2018

You speak of affluent people in affluent areas as if they are the only ones who can be honor students. People from all walks of life can indeed overdose on drugs. Honor students don't need to be ashamed because they are honor students. Generally speaking it means they worked hard.

heron, ASN, RN · Jul 15, 2018

FYI: this thread is over a year old. Previous posters are long gone.

Davey Do · Jul 16, 2018

The absurdity of the situation: An honor student who overdosed. A High and Mighty who ended up like any other Schmuck.

What makes you think because someone is an honor student that they consider themselves high-and-mighty? I think generally speaking it's because they worked hard.

Yes, debrasimmons, generally speaking, honor students do work hard to achieve that status.

But if you take away the honor student/High and Mighty status, the absurdity, and subsequently the humor, is lost. And the absurdity of the situation along with the humor, the intent of the phrase, is lost.

I mean like, how absurd or funny would it be to say, "I narcanned your homeless drug addict"?

you sound as if you have a grudge against honor students

I am proud to say that I was an honor student in both high school and community college! And I got narcanned!

Not really.

But I have been canned from a few jobs!

TruvyNurse · Jul 16, 2018

I think this is hilarious! But I'm a bit dark thanks to Psych/Corrections