Top 10 Reasons To Become A Nurse!

[pumpkin1984]

10. Pays better than McDonald's (though the hours aren't as good.)

9. Fashionable shoes and sexy uniforms.

8. Needles: 'tis better to give than to receive.

7. Confidence in reassuring patients that all bleeding stops ... eventually.

6. Opportunity to expose yourself to rare, exotic, and exciting new diseases.

5. Interesting aromas.

4. Courteous and infallible doctors who always leave clear orders in perfectly clear handwriting.

3. Admit it, it's a lot easier than med school.

2. Celebration of holidays with all your friends ... at work.

1. Comfort in the knowledge that most of your patients survive no matter what you do to them.

[dthfytr, ADN, LPN, RN, EMT-B, EMT-I]

10. The chicks

9. Making six figures on an associates degree

8. The chicks

7. Making a difference in people's lives

6. The chicks

5. Unlimited choices in environment, schedule and location

4. The chicks

3. Never worring about what to wear to work (I have ten sets of the same color scrubs and three flight suits)

2. The chicks

1. When one of the kids is sick or hurt - they want me, not mommy. (it's the only time they do)

Pete Fitzpatrick

RN, CFRN, EMT-P

Writing from the Ninth Circle

Just a hint Pete, the term "chicks" objectifies the oposite sex. Babes and broads hate that.

[dthfytr, ADN, LPN, RN, EMT-B, EMT-I]

1. Seeing a patient keep a straight face when he/she says "I have no idea how that got in there!"

2. Wishing there was a Valium mist spraying in the ER waiting room.

3. The phone calls "How many times can you have sex before getting pregnant."

4. Wanting to slap anyone who uses the "Q" (Quiet) word at work.

5. The "appreciation" a heroin user verbalizes when you give him Narcan and he starts breathing again.

6. The comfort of knowing that nobody ever has more than "just 2 beers."

7. The police bringing you patients against their will wearing the chrome plated "Siamese friendship bracelets."

8. Inventing abbreviations to describe patients like "SPTWD" for self propelled toxic waste dump.

9. Feeling a kinship for Hugh Hefner because you BOTH work in your pajamas.

10. Staying in a nice warm, well lit ER when the Paramedics are called to respond to the corner of walk and don't walk in pouring rain for a patient complaining that his head feels numb.