"practice what you preach"..am I only one who gets this?

[Shanlee79]

The other day I half-jokingly told my mother that I was going to enjoy a nice bowl of cereal for supper. I get the ol'.."oh, and you're going to be a nurse??" comment in return. I have heard this a few times from people during my journey through nursing school. This judgement if you were not being the ultimate picture of health. lol. I guess it is funny to me because at times I think of this too when I am in clinical teaching health promotion strategies, when in reality I probably don't do most of them myself. Anybody else get this?

[JBudd, MSN]

and of course, we all work out with a solid cardio program 30 minutes a day,........

....curse words are totally unknown to us, and we think those angry and shouting patients, visitors, family,... are simply speaking in tongues.......

[makes needs known]

Yeah what about when you're too busy to stop for your lunch break and someone has cookies, I stuff a couple in my mouth as I go to the next patient.

[lkwashington]

I hate that people dont think were human.

NightnurseRN....Hate is a strong word. They know we are human but I think they think we are super humans. lol

[Otessa, BSN, RN]

The other day I half-jokingly told my mother that I was going to enjoy a nice bowl of cereal for supper. I get the ol'.."oh, and you're going to be a nurse??" comment in return. I have heard this a few times from people during my journey through nursing school. This judgement if you were not being the ultimate picture of health. lol. I guess it is funny to me because at times I think of this too when I am in clinical teaching health promotion strategies, when in reality I probably don't do most of them myself. Anybody else get this?

What's wrong with a nice bowl of cereal for supper??

milk=protein

cereal=fiber, vitamins, whole grain fortified goodness, etc.,etc.

add a little fruit on the side and you are gold!

[Penelope_Pitstop, BSN, RN]

What's wrong with a nice bowl of cereal for supper??

milk=protein

cereal=fiber, vitamins, whole grain fortified goodness, etc.,etc.

add a little fruit on the side and you are gold!

You know what my mom would say?

Hmm, as long as you eat some veggies with olive oil on them on the side...

[Blackheartednurse]

Yeah I get that all the time,usually from my boyfriend-I drink a lot of cafeine and he says"how can you you are a nurse" Also,sometimes a stay up late,he says how can you you are a nurse!!!! It is very,very frustrating!

[nursel56]

Yes, I get that occasionally. It's even more annoying than having everyone assume you will be thrilled to see their funky rash or nasty carbuncle.

You know what's funny, I am madly in love with Dr. Oz :redbeathe and I think he's brilliant. (We lost a great doctor when he left his practice at my hospital!) But you know what? He annoys the heck out of me because he looks perfect and never says, "yes, this food is my weakness." He makes it sound like it's so easy!

I saw his show once. I swear if that guy gets anywhere near my kitchen I will barricade the door with my couch. I think he threw out some lady's whole wheat pasta!! C'mon! I think he let her keep a thin film of algae and a radish. My theory is the stress from having to decline almost every food on the planet will kill me before heart disease will. Well, OK maybe slight exaggeration but still. . .Coco-Puffs for breakfast! And dinner! Yay!!

[NeoNurseTX, RN]

I eat at least a half box of cereal a day. I'm healthy and of normal weight. I don't get it.

[fungez]

I have this little quirk. I don't like to see people naked. Also, I'm very modest and I don't let anyone see me naked. I also like bathroom doors firmly shut and if you want to run the water while you're in there, I'm down with that. And I get mocked for this!

"But you're a nurse! You see naked people every day!"

Yes, and that's at work, and I'm at home, so please shut the bathroom door!

[fuzzywuzzy, CNA]

Yeah I get that all the time,usually from my boyfriend-I drink a lot of cafeine and he says"how can you you are a nurse" Also,sometimes a stay up late,he says how can you you are a nurse!!!! It is very,very frustrating!

And I bet he stays up late and drinks a lot of caffeine too, right? But it's okay for him to do that because he's not a nurse? lol

[Zookeeper3]

Look I'm a smoker, you dang well better believe I talk to all my smoking patients about how tough it is to quit and give them all the info I can to help them.

Practice what I preach... I tell them.. "I'm not the one in the bed whose body is demanding quitting smoking now", I will be there soon, "but that's not for you to stress over", so "about you, in the ICU bed, we've established we both understand how hard it is to quit... lets make a plan that can work for you to quit".

Because I smoke, I don't ever enable, but simply share my struggles in understanding, when appropriate, but the bottom line is that I am here to teach and to enact change... what I do in my personal life does not give the smoking COPD 'er permission to continue, I'm a seperate being and the accountability and the struggle to quit LIES UPON MY SICK PATIENT, not what I do on my break, I'm not the one in the bed, even though I can relate to the struggle, their struggle is not mine. The bad habits of others does not give the sick patient permission to continue there own bad habits, it's a cop out to not facilitate change that is needed.

[vegas2009]

I think he threw out some lady's whole wheat pasta!! C'mon! I think he let her keep a thin film of algae and a radish. . . .Coco-Puffs for breakfast! And dinner! Yay!!

I like pasta. Especially if it's chicken alfredo! lol. . . Coco puffs are good, but I'm more Kellogs frosted flakes, sometimes Pops, Raisin Bran. Coco puffs are tempting though, I have to admit. Yea, Dr. Oz is the magic doctor! He's got answers for everything!