Song lyrics that remind you of nursing...

[grace90]

Every so often I'll hear lyrics on songs on the radio that remind me of nursing... Here's a couple of examples I've heard on the radio recently, unfortunately I can't remember who sings either of 'em...:monkeydance:

"I am barely breathing, and I can't find the air..."

"I have become, comfortably numb..."

Anyone got any more?

[Hygiene Queen]

Back in the day... early 90's as a CNA in LTC, I used to sing "We Care A Lot" by Faith No More... of course everyone knows that song now, thanks to "Dirty Jobs". I still break into that song on occasion.

Also, I think it was the Dead Kennedys... I can't remember... that had this robotic droning song I would also "sing" when I was annoyed at work, "I'm working at my job, I'm so happy. More boring by the day, but they pay me!"

Nowadays, in Gero Psych, I like to sing "Mother's Little Helper" by the Stones...

"What a drag it is getting old...

So Doctor please. Some more of these. Outside the door, she took four more...

What a drag it is getting old... HEY!"

[pielęgniarka, RN]

I love Mother's Little Helper! My first album I owned was Through the Past Darkly. The Stones were the first concert I went to, Steel Wheels with my parents! I was young! Anyway enough of memory lane.

I think that Kenny Rogers: "You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em. Know when to walk away know when to run"...........

fits in nicely to the job.

[grace90, LPN, LVN]

U2, Wild Honey "Slow down, slow down my beating heart, slow down..." for pts in rapid a-fib, SVT or V-Tach, etc :heartbeat:redbeathe

[Not_A_Hat_Person, RN]

Since I'm still looking for a job, I've been thinking of MIKA's "Grace Kelly"

"I can be brown, I can be blue, I can be violet sky! I can be helpful, I can be purple, I can be anything you like. Gotta be green, gotta be mean, gotta be everything, no. Why don't you like me? Why don't you like me? Walk out the door. "

[Hoozdo, ADN]

Immigration Man - Crosby, Stills, Nash

Highway to Hell - AC/DC

[Lily79]

I remember as a new grad walking around the unit singing

"Everyone knows I'm in over my head, over my head..."

Then after leaving Covenant Health System (Lubbock, TX)...

"Happiness is Lubbock, TX in my rearview mirror..."

[akoalaatemylion]

Are We Human by The Killers always makes a nursing montage run through my mind.

"Will your system be alright?

When you dream of home tonight

There is no message we're receiving

Let me know, is your heart still beating?

Are we human, or are we dancer

My sign is vital, my hands are cold

And I'm on my knees looking for the answer"

[nerdtonurse?, BSN, RN]

"Brothers in Arms" by Dire Straits (with apologies to my "sisters in arms")

Through these fields of destruction

Baptism of fire

I've watched all your suffering

As the battles raged higher

And though they did hurt me so bad

In the fear and alarm

You did not desert me

My brothers in arms

"Think" by Aretha Franklin

I didn't even know you, you came to me and too much you wouldn't take

I ain't no psychiatrist, I ain't no doctor with degree

It don't take too much high IQ's to see what you're doing to me

"Bang your head" by Quiet Riot

Bang your head wake the dead

We're all metal mad, it’s all you have

So bang your head and raise the dead oh yeah

Metal health it drives you mad, mad, mad, mad

"Walk on Water" by Blue Country

It’s the path you take the steps you make

That make you who you are

It’s the life you live

The gifts you give

The love that’s in your heart

Just try to do the best you can to be a better man

You don’t have to walk on water

It’s how you walk on land

[bebe2010]

:monkeydance: I am the unit DJ. I choose all the music that we listen to at night and I have been compiling a list of nursing related songs. So far I have a few and I need more suggestions. (My iPod is 30 gigs so help me out).

Some that I already have:

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd

This song reminds me of a neurotrauma patient. "Hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me..."

Banana Boat Song - Harry Bellafonte

"Daylight come and we wanna go home."

One - Metallica

Bring Me to Life - Evanescence

"Wake me up inside... save me from the nothing I've become"

Rock and Roll All Nite - KISS

Only for the night shift

Dr. Feelgood - Montley Crue

RESPECT - Aretha Franklin

Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

hehehe... I know, it's not really that funny, but it's horribly wicked

Hotel California - Eagles

Because sometimes I feel more like concierge than a nurse.

Let's Get it On -

When we are getting ready to intubate.

Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who

For those patients that like to play games... Yeah, the nurse can't tell that you are drug seeking.

Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones

For when you wish you could be the devil

Walk this Way - Aerosmith

For my friends in PT that like to tell the patients how to "walk this way"

Dream On - Aerosmith

Self-explanatory, do you think?

Every Breath You Take - Police

For the Respiratory Therapist in your life!

Freebird - Lynard Skynyrd

For the patient threatening to go AMA

That'll Be The Day - Buddy Holly

What we would like to answer to our most pleasant patients.

Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison

For the hot, young chick that needs an enema... gotta love the one brown eye!

Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis

Scrotal abscess!

Twist and Shout - Beatles

For a closed reduction at the bedside.

Crazy - Patsy Cline

Needs no explaination

Hard Days Night - Beatles

Another one just for night shift.

Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye

From time to time we find a patient with a rather frisky visitor.

You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC

In the Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett

My Name Is - Eminem

For the ETOH intoxicated, detoxing pt.

Super Freak - Rick James, b*tch

For the Gavida 4 para 3, age 21 female patient.

I'm Coming Out - Diana Ross

For the occassional drag queen that makes his way to the ER.

Pour Some Sugar on Me - Def Lep

I know it's a lame song, but for severe hypoglycemia it fits.

In the Air Tonight - Phil Collins

For those f-ed up nights when nothing goes right and all the psych pts come in.

Head Like a Hole - Nine Inch Nails

What a song for nurses... "head like a hole, black as your soul, I'd rather die than give you control." That pretty much sums up ICU nurses.

Hot in Here - Nelly

For that patient that loves to roam the halls with too little clothes on.

Since You Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson

We have this one really bad pulmonologist. The kind you cringe when you have to call him of orders. I always joke that this is his pts singing. "Since you been gone, I can breathe for the first time."

Welcome to the Jungle - Guns and Roses

Need I say more?

Sabotage - Beastie Boys

When you get a really sh1tty group of patients.

Creep - Radiohead

humm, Have you ever had this patient?

"I'm a creep. I'm a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here."

Or maybe that's the voice in your own head?

Toxic - Britney

I love calling poison control.

How I Could Just Kill a Man - Cypress Hill

Tempting....

Mama Said Knock You Out - LL Cool J

Sometimes you gotta make mama happy. Cause if mama ain't happy ain't nobody happy!

A Change Would Do You Good - Sheryl Crow

When you look down at the bandage that you just learned 10 min ago in report was clean, dry, and intact but somehow it's suddenly saturated with dry blood.

My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It) - En Vogue

Diladid... no you're never gonna get it, not this time. For the new admit that casually insists, "The only pain med that works for me is 4 mg of Dilaudid" when she comes in for left toe cellulitis.

You Outta Know - Alanis Morrissette

I'm here to remind you of the mess you left when you went away. For the annoying frequent flyer.

Hard Knock Life - Jay-Z

For the patient with babymomma drama at the house, trying to stay straight, but the world is just on his back. (sigh) so sad.

Bye Bye Bye - Backstreet Boys

To celebrate when that demanding patient finally gets D/C orders!

Breathe - Faith Hill

The L&D Nurse's anthem.

U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer

Because every once in a while there comes that demented old fart with the wandering hands.

Hips Don't Lie - Shakira (spelling?)

S/P ORIF of the hip.

Fast Car - Tracy Chapman

For the MVA.

We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off - Jermaine Stewart

hehehe I dunno.

I Wanna Be Sedated - the Ramones

Any suggestions? I have more, but I am supposed to be working!

bye bye bye is sung by n'sync lol

[bebe2010]

Ememin(spelling) shake the a** for the night shift who want to dance down the hallway lol

[bebe2010]

Linkin Park, Crawling- "Crawling in my skin" - maggotty wounds

same song- "Without a sense of confidence and I'm convinced that there's just too much pressure to take"- how every nurse feels at some point

Reminds me of some drug addicts detoxing

[bebe2010]

'talkin' bout a bunch of shifffffffftttt work, a big old pile of shiffftttt work, 7 to 3, 3 to 11, 11 to 7' George Strait

and take this job and shove it always comes to mind.

on good days, the Fray 'How to save a life'

Kenny chestney sang shift work