Perhaps you have heard this already, but it gave me a giggle yesterday. They say laughter can add 8 years to your life, so laugh a little today! This is NOT a true story, but it’s cute. (See Snopes.com) Picabo (Peekaboo) Street the former Olympic skier has become an ICU nurse now and works in an intensive care unit in a large metropolitan hospital. She is not allowed to answer the phones however, because she was causing a great deal of confusion: “Picabo, ICU.” Picabo has been the brunt of jokes her entire life, as would most anyone with an unusual name. She is not a nurse, but she has…
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Laugh Long and Hard Everyday!
Nurses have to have a sense of humor to survive the day-to-day basics of patient care! A reader sent me a link to a wonderful bit of humor about the 10 Terrible Patients You’ll Find in Every Hospital, and How to Deal With Them. I’m sure you’ll recognize a few. I know I did. Enjoy! Share some of your worst patients on The Nursing Site Forum, and how you dealt with them…..of course please be sure to be mindful of HIPAA regs and don’t include any identifying information.
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Some Nursing Humor
I received this in an email today from a dear friend and fellow nurse…enjoy! (author unknown) Did you hear about the nurse who died and went straight to hell? It took her two weeks to realize she wasn’t at work! You know you’re a nurse if… You would like to meet the inventor of the call light some night in a dark alley. Your sense of humor gets more warped each year. Almost everything can seem humorous…eventually. You know the smell of different diarrhea to identify it. You wash your hands BEFORE you use the bathroom. You can tell the pharmacist more about the medication they are dispensing than they…