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  1. Nurse Beth

    Are Nurses Superstitious?

    Suspend Your Disbelief Some of us have cognitive dissonance around superstition. Meaning we both believe and don’t believe. How can that be? It’s knowing a superstition is irrational and performing the action anyway. On some level, we know that k...
  2. Sex of unborn child?

    HI! Hope y'all are doing well! I have a paper to write about folktales and superstitions that women and men have heard about the sex of an unborn child. For instance, if you can balance a pencil on your belly horizontally doesn't that mean it's a gir...
  3. Nursing Superstitions?

    What are your nursing superstitions? Here are a few of mine... - I become paranoid if, during report, someone explicitly states a pt is a "full code" (we don't normally note code status unless a pt is a DNR) OR if there is a leaf magnet in one of our...
  4. As nurses, we have learned the hard way to never say certain statements. Why? Well, that could be because the first time we said it - or heard it said - we got the "evil eye". Think back to the time you first heard some naive soul say, "WOW!, it sure...
  5. When it appears crazy at work, I always ask "is it a full moon tonight?" and 9 times out of 10 a full moon is close. Even my pets seem to have more mad moments of charging around the house. I know personally that I feel that I am less toler...