Funny Nursing Jokes Page Two
You Might Be a Nurse If....
*You can
drink a pot of coffee and still go to sleep in the morning.
*You believe every patient needs TLC: Thorazine, Lorazapam, and
Compazine.
*You can´t see it; it´s probably not there.
*Your sense of humor seems to get more warped each year.
*You think it is acceptable to use "penis" and "vagina" in
a normal conversation.
*You believe the definition of stress is when you wake up screaming and
you
realize you haven´t fallen asleep yet.
*You believe that if warm wine enemas were routinely ordered, patient
complaints would greatly decrease.
*You call some of your co-workers "Flowers in the Field of Medicine"
because they´re bloomin´ idiots.
*You hope there´s a special place in Hell for the inventor of
the call light.
*You believe not all patients are annoying. Some are dead.
*You believe experience is something you don´t get until just
after you need
it.
*You see stress as a normal way of life.
*You have a tendency to laugh at your patient´s "big"
problems.
*You know the phone numbers of every late night food delivery place in
town by
heart.
*You believe the problem with the gene pool is that there is no
lifeguard.
*You´ve ever thought, "Patients, God love ´em,
because today, I sure
don´t!"
*Everything only happens all at once.
*You have more T-shirts that say, "Love a nurse PRN" than plain
T-shirts.
*You´ve ever referred to other nurses as "Band-Aid Bunnies."
*You´ve ever been telling work stories in a restaurant and
had someone at
another table throw-up.
*You write a patient report and have to translate it to medical records
because
of all the acronyms in it.
*You notice that you use more four-letter words now than before you
became a
nurse.
*You look in your closet and can´t find anything non-medical
to wear.
*You´ve ever told anyone in pain to "stop being a baby and
deal with
it."
*You have a patient in four-point leathers that asks if
you´re a nurse, you
reply "Yes", and walk away.
*You´ve ever told a patient to "stop faking it."
*You believe all bleeding stops...eventually.
*You don´t get excited about blood loss unless it´s
your own.
*You don´t hit patients or doctors....unless absolutely
necessary.
*You believe the pain will go away when it stops hurting.
*Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong and if nothing has gone
wrong,
you´ve obviously don´t understand the situation.
*You believe if you can keep your head among all this confusion, you
obviously
don´t understand the situation.
*You´ve ever said, "Why am I here?"
*If you believe if a patient who has a catheter, he needs it.
*Everyone gets treated exactly the same...until they piss you off.
*When you get a call telling you the name of your next admit and you
can do the
care plan before the patient gets to the floor.
*When called for orders, the MD says, "Write them yourself; you know
the
patient better than I do."
*You´ve ever had to contend with someone who thinks
constipation for 4 hours is
an emergency.
*Ever rolled your eyes when the 14 year-old says, "No, I´ve
never had
sex."
*You refer to motorcyclists as organ donors.
*You can eat a candy bar with one hand while performing digital
stimulation on
your patient with the other hand, and it doesn´t bother you.
*You believe Tylenol, Advil, or Excedrin provides a large part of your
daily
calorie intake requirements.
*You´ve ever held a 14-gauge needle over someone´s
vein and said, "Now
your going to feel a little stick."
*You can identify the "PID Shuffle" and the "Kidney Stone
Squirm" at 15 feet.
*You´ve ever had a patient with a nose ring, a brow ring and
twelve earrings
say, "I´m afraid of shots."
*You´ve ever thought, "As long as he´s got a pulse,
I don´t care about the
rhythm."
*You think the ultimate cruel joke is get someone drunk, take them to
the ER
and tell them he OD´d on "some kind of pills."
*You automatically multiply by three the number of drinks a patient
claims to
have daily.
*You can keep a straight face when a patient responds, "Just two
beers."
*You feel that if someone is shot or stabbed, they probably deserved it.
*You stare at someone in utter disbelief when they actually cover their
mouth
to cough.
*You think "awake and stupid" is an appropriate choice for mental
status.
*You believe in the aerial spraying of Prozac.
*You have encouraged obnoxious patients to sign out AMA.
*You believe the government should require a permit to reproduce.
*Your most common assessment question at 2 a.m. is "Why is
this an emergency
now?"
*You believe every waiting room should have a Valium salt lick.
*You don´t believe 90% of what you´re told, and 75%
of what you see.
*You firmly believe that "too stupid to live" should be a diagnosis.
*You have to leave the patient before you begin to laugh uncontrollably.
*You believe a book entitled "Suicide: Getting it Right the First
Time" will be your next project.
*You believe a good tape job will fix anything.
*You´ve ever had a patient look you dead in the eye and say,
"I don´t know
how that got stuck in there."
*You have ever had a patient say, "I´m not pregnant, I
can´t be pregnant!
I can´t be having a baby!"
*You have a special shrine in your home to the inventor of Haldol.
*You can think of another 200 examples of "You Might Be a Nurse If...
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