25 Things You May Not Know About What Nurses Know

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Specializes in Trauma ICU, MICU,Tele. PCU, IMC.

Found this quite insightful.

25 Things You May Not Know About What Nurses Know:yeah:

They just forgot to add Superman strength for pulling and moving patients around, and an iron stomach for all the gross things we see and smell.

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Specializes in NICU, Nursery.

26. Patience. Truckloads of it

27. The ability to ZIP THE LIP and be a shock-absorber to someone (doctor, patient, family etc.) whose displacing anger, hurt, guilt, loneliness, or whatever. Fine. I'll be the sponge. But I have to drain all excess at the end of the day so watch out! ;)

Good read!

A bow to all nurses! :bow:

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

The patience of Job in order to keep from slappng the snot out of some of these self absorbed patients and families. Same goes with doctrs who verbally abuse the nurses for clarifying orders that their drunk self couldn't get straight......oh I can go on and on

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my favorite is # 18

The infamous poker face: The rule of thumb is – even if you haven’t seen it all yet, pretend you have. No, nurses are not supposed to be unfeeling robots. However, they are able to keep their composure in the face of stressful situations enough to hold their own against the stony faced competitors in a poker tournament.

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Oh, so many things to learn. I'm still a student, and I haven't been in the hospital for long. This profession truly is an art form, and I have such a learning curve.

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