2. • The hospital
always sends
admissions to
your nursing
home at
change of
shift on your
weekend on -
the
physician's
weekend off.

3. • The number of staff to be found on the ward is
inversely proportional to the scale of the
emergency

4. • The lift always breaks down when
the 400 pound patient needs to be
transferred from one bed to another

5. • You always remember ‘just one more thing'
you need after you've gowned, gloved, and
masked and gone into that isolation room

6. • As soon as you've
ordered the pizzas,
25 patients show up
at the ER registration
desk along with three
ambulances all with
cardiac arrests

7. • Rest assured that when you are in a
hurry, the nurse's notes have not
been written

8. • You will always fall
short of one pill for
the last patient at the
end of duty with the
supply room in the
other wing…

9. • The doctor with the
strongest foreign
accent will be the one
who calls you back on
a cell phone with a
bad connection

10. • You have been
working flat all day
without even a coffee
break, but the
moment you sit down,
the supervisor walks
around the corner and
sees you doing
nothing

11. • Management truly believes you
are overpaid. But would never
work for what they pay you.

12. • Despite an apartment littered with clothes, the
dog will always sleep on the one clean uniform
that you had laid out the night before.

13. • If you're running
around horribly busy,
you're unorganized
and need to prioritize,
but if you're not
running around
horribly busy, you're
lazy and need to find
more work to do

14. But with all these things….
Nurses dispense comfort,
compassion, and caring
without even a
prescription.
Nurses are angels in
comfortable shoes.
And they represent a noble
profession.
Three cheers to them….with
a big bouquet