Special Snowflake!

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If I hear that phrase here one more time, I might have to slap you in the forehead. Stop. Please.

Specializes in retired LTC.

I've seen them called Barbie Dolls.

On another post, a member called a PRE-princess snowflake type "wee mademoiselle".

Specializes in Peds, Med-Surg, Disaster Nsg, Parish Nsg.

Some of us are older, seasoned nurses who prefer not to be referred to as crusty or bats.

Specializes in Hospice.
*blinks*

Some of us not young, not pretty, not stuck up know it all students / new nurses are still awaiting our nickname.

If you're willing to absorb the wisdom of your elders, how about "Grasshopper"?

Specializes in Hospital medicine; NP precepting; staff education.
*blinks*

Some of us not young, not pretty, not stuck up know it all students / new nurses are still awaiting our nickname.

Fresh meat?

Specializes in Hospice.
Some of us are older, seasoned nurses who prefer not to be referred to as crusty or bats.

If I were any more seasoned I'd fall apart.

I have never been called a Crusty Old Bat, nor have I ever eaten a newbie nurse (please reference my latest entry in "What I Learned This Week). Truthfully, I never heard the term before I came in here.

However, I do have a sense of humor, and while I have always taken my profession and what I do as a Nurse very seriously, I refuse to take MYSELF seriously.

The discussions about what constitutes a COB, who can be a Junior COB, et al, make me laugh. I like to laugh. Because, sometimes in the course of my job, I cry.

I just can't get my knickers in a twist about some words the leave me with the mental image of a bat wearing a white hat, Florence Nightingale cape and white Dr. Scholl's. But then, I've been told I have a weird sense of humor.

Specializes in OB-Gyn/Primary Care/Ambulatory Leadership.
I've never heard this term used in my clinical setting and I don't want to make an assumption as to what it means. Please, educate me!

It's not a nurse thing. It describes anyone who thinks they're unique and special and deserves special treatment. I first heard the term at parenting websites (used to describe the special snowflakes whose parents think they don't deserve punishment or rules in school, for instance). It was overused then, and now it's become the phrase du jour here at Allnurses for the past year.

To me, the phrase "special snowflake" goes along with the terms "totes," "jelly," "awesome sauce," and "you win the internet!" as terms that are too ubiquitous to be clever anymore and they all annoy the bejeebers out of me.

I have to disclaim: I get really easily annoyed over words. A few years ago, the phrases that annoyed the piss out of me were "webinar" and "jeggings." I'm over it now.

*blinks*

Some of us not young, not pretty, not stuck up know it all students / new nurses are still awaiting our nickname.

Yoo are bootiful, Ood.

Fresh meat?

Bahahahahahhaaaa!!!

Some of us are older, seasoned nurses who prefer not to be referred to as crusty or bats.

I'm purdy batty, but not so crusty. Yet.

It's not a nurse thing. It describes anyone who thinks they're unique and special and deserves special treatment. I first heard the term at parenting websites (used to describe the special snowflakes whose parents think they don't deserve punishment or rules in school, for instance). It was overused then, and now it's become the phrase du jour here at Allnurses for the past year.

To me, the phrase "special snowflake" goes along with the terms "totes," "jelly," "awesome sauce," and "you win the internet!" as terms that are too ubiquitous to be clever anymore and they all annoy the bejeebers out of me.

I have to disclaim: I get really easily annoyed over words. A few years ago, the phrases that annoyed the piss out of me were "webinar" and "jeggings." I'm over it now.

Hate totes and jelly, but I've used them both in jest.

Hipster? That used to make me twitch.

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
If I were any more seasoned I'd fall apart.

I have never been called a Crusty Old Bat, nor have I ever eaten a newbie nurse (please reference my latest entry in "What I Learned This Week). Truthfully, I never heard the term before I came in here.

However, I do have a sense of humor, and while I have always taken my profession and what I do as a Nurse very seriously, I refuse to take MYSELF seriously.

The discussions about what constitutes a COB, who can be a Junior COB, et al, make me laugh. I like to laugh. Because, sometimes in the course of my job, I cry.

I just can't get my knickers in a twist about some words the leave me with the mental image of a bat wearing a white hat, Florence Nightingale cape and white Dr. Scholl's. But then, I've been told I have a weird sense of humor.

I daresay most of us crusty old bats have never actually eaten a newbie nurse, either . . . we just took an insult and made it something else again. A badge of honor, maybe. I've also been called a "fat, old, ugly biter nurse." FOUB?

(I've never even bitten a newbie!)

Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.
It's not a nurse thing. It describes anyone who thinks they're unique and special and deserves special treatment. I first heard the term at parenting websites (used to describe the special snowflakes whose parents think they don't deserve punishment or rules in school, for instance). It was overused then, and now it's become the phrase du jour here at Allnurses for the past year.

To me, the phrase "special snowflake" goes along with the terms "totes," "jelly," "awesome sauce," and "you win the internet!" as terms that are too ubiquitous to be clever anymore and they all annoy the bejeebers out of me.

I have to disclaim: I get really easily annoyed over words. A few years ago, the phrases that annoyed the piss out of me were "webinar" and "jeggings." I'm over it now.

I think "words and phrases that annoy the hell out of us" could be its own thread. Or have I missed such a thread?

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