Special Snowflake!

[klone]

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

[enuf_already]

Yes, but as I have been told by many a new nurse here, the NCLEX they have to take is much, much , much , much ,much more difficult than the one you and I took. I mean, ours was all about how to scrub floors, make hospital corners, and stand at attention when a doctor came to the nurse's station. Theirs was about how to do things like how to do a tracheostomy with only an Exact-O knife and a pen, performing a pericardial window in the jungle, and delivering a baby at gunpoint.

So while we may have waited months to get our results, we really didn't have time to think about it, because we were too busy scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans.

I don't know what year you took boards but you left out the all so important lamp oiling. Nurses didn't really touch patients, so our boards weren't hard. The answer to all of the scenario questions was "yes doctor, right away doctor."

They hadn't invented CPR or medication or treatments so we just stood around like in the soap operas and flirted with the doctors in the hope that one day we'd be Mrs. Dr.

Carrying an abacus got cumbersome so we just guessed when it came to anything requiring numbers. Those were the days...

[Farawyn]

Sentence Enhancers.

They are actually sparkles that we Bats scratched off the pants of the special snowflakes.

[Farawyn]

A princess shift is over so fast it doesn't even feel like work, which is probably where the name came from. On my unit we have a regularly scheduled princess that's a helper. Pass meds, break people for lunch, draw labs, whatever to help people catch up. So you don't even have patients. Plus everyone cheers when you show up and is sorry when you leave. Just like a real princess.

That was ME. No wonder I was so happy as a float nurse.

[OCNRN63, RN]

I don't know what year you took boards but you left out the all so important lamp oiling. Nurses didn't really touch patients, so our boards weren't hard. The answer to all of the scenario questions was "yes doctor, right away doctor."

They hadn't invented CPR or medication or treatments so we just stood around like in the soap operas and flirted with the doctors in the hope that one day we'd be Mrs. Dr.

Carrying an abacus got cumbersome so we just guessed when it came to anything requiring numbers. Those were the days...

How could I forget?

[Farawyn]

How could I forget?

*hands you a V8*

[Farawyn]

Confession: I never curse in real life.

[WellThatsOod]

Laughing too hard brb

[ixchel]

Once again, what happened to this perfectly respectful thread?!

(Partially respectful?)

[ixchel]

I bet klone has unsubscribed from it.

[WellThatsOod]

That post is going to get deleted so fast. Sirl is going to come in here and oh man lmao

[ixchel]

My dearest mods,

[ixchel]

Ood check your inbox.

Eta - never mind, I answered my own question. I want to send you a pic, but I can't in PM.