difference between a graduate nurse & an experienced nurse
A Graduate Nurse throws up when the
patient does.
An Experienced Nurse calls
housekeeping when a patient throws up
A Graduate Nurse wears so many pins on
their name badge you can't read it.
An Experienced Nurse doesn't wear a
name badge for liability reasons.
A Graduate Nurse charts too much.
An Experienced Nurse doesn't chart
enough.
A Graduate Nurse loves to run to
codes.
An Experienced Nurse makes graduate
nurses run to codes.
A Graduate Nurse wants everyone to
know they are a nurse.
An Experienced Nurse doesn't want
anyone to know they are a nurse.
A Graduate Nurse keeps detailed notes
on a pad.
An Experienced Nurse writes on the
back of their hand, paper scraps,
napkins, etc.
A Graduate Nurse will spend all day
trying to reorient a patient.
An Experienced Nurse will chart the
patient is disoriented and restrain
them.
A Graduate Nurse can hear a beeping I-
med at 50 yards.
An Experienced Nurse can't hear any
alarms at any distance.
A Graduate Nurse loves to hear
abnormal heart and breath sounds.
An Experienced Nurse doesn't want to
know about them unless the patient is
symptomatic.
A Graduate Nurse spends 2 hours giving
a patient a bath.
An Experienced Nurse lets the CNA give
the patient a bath.
A Graduate Nurse thinks people respect
Nurses.
An Experienced Nurse knows everybody
blames everything on the nurse.
A Graduate Nurse looks for blood on a
bandage hoping they will get to change
it.
An Experienced Nurse knows a little
blood never hurt anybody.
A Graduate Nurse looks for a
chance 'to work with the family.'
An Experienced Nurse avoids the family.
A Graduate Nurse expects meds and
supplies to be delivered on time.
An Experienced Nurse expects them to
never be delivered at all.
A Graduate Nurse will spend days
bladder training an incontinent
patient.
An Experienced Nurse will insert a
Foley catheter.
A Graduate Nurse always answers their
phone.
An Experienced Nurse checks their
caller ID before answering the phone.
A Graduate Nurse thinks psych patients
are interesting.
An Experienced Nurse thinks psych
patients are crazy.
A Graduate Nurse carries reference
books in their bag.
An Experienced Nurse carries
magazines, lunch, and some 'cough
syrup' in their bag.
A Graduate Nurse doesn't find this
funny.
An Experienced Nurse does
 naibesmelaire2303 · Tue Aug 07, 2007 @ 07:41am · 0 Comments |
