Journal of Nursing Jocularity

What’s the most essential resource a nurse has at their disposal?

That’s a hard question to answer.  Sure, we’ve got all this training and medical know how. It’s really pretty hard to make it through the work day without either.

But for many nurses, particularly at this time of year,  a sense of gratitude is nearly as critical.  The nature of what we do, each and every day, gives up plenty of opportunities to say “Thank you!”

Thank you, when the wee baby who’s been gasping for every breath, finds the strength to make it through the night…and the night after that…and the night after that.

Thank you, when the patient who comes in in approximately 235 pieces, leaves the hospital in one (plus a few extra parts, just for good luck!) (more…)

A doctor is going round the ward with a nurse and they come to the first bed where the chap is laying half dead.

”Did you give this man two tablets every eight hours?” asks the doctor.

”Oh, no,” replies the nurse, “I gave him eight tablets every two hours!”

At the next bed the next patient also appears half dead.

”Nurse, did you give this man one tablet every twelve hours?”

”Oops, I gave him twelve tablets every one hour,” replies the nurse.

Unfortunately at the next bed the patient is well and truly deceased, not an ounce of life.

“Nurse,” asks the doctor, “did you prick his boil?”

”OH MY GOODNESS!” replies the nurse.

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