We nurses have our own brand of humor, don’t we? After all, if you’re not laughing, you just may be crying! If you’re trying to find a way to brighten up a nurse’s day or you’re looking for a smile or two yourself, you may like these great greeting and note cards we found:
1. Let’s make something clear…
How many times have we been tempted to say something like this to a visitor or patient who dismisses you and asks to speak to a doctor?
Do you want to speak to the doctor in charge, or the nurse who actually knows what’s going on?
2. Did he really ask me that?
You know how it is when you’ve been asked a stupid question and you think, “How am I going to answer this without losing my job?” Now, we have a card for that:
Please Wait…Nurse Loading
3. Enough!
Tired of coworkers or family members whining? If you’ve tried all the diplomatic solutions and can’t avoid them any longer, Nurse Betty can come to your rescue:
Nurse Betty says, “Put on your big girl panties and deal with it!”
4. Sometimes, you just have to wonder…
Let’s face it, not everyone graduated at the top of the class:
Insert Catheter, Inflate Balloon or…
5. I’m tired!
Ever have to explain why you’re tired at the end of the shift? Let this card do the talking for you:
Medications, injections, IVs, bedpans…
6. Night nurses
Here’s something special for the NOC nurses in case anyone ever asks what on earth you do all night:
Night Shift Nurse – Keepin’ Em’ Alive Until 7:05
7. Nursing students, part 1
One of the least fun parts of studying to be a nurse has to be learning different medications and their adverse reactions. Don’t you wish you could have just handed this card to your nursing instructor?
“Cures and Causes”
8. Nursing students, part 2
Sometimes when people find out you’re studying to be a nurse, they ask for advice: “What’s up with this rash on my arm?” “My [fill in the blank] hurts. Why?” Here’s a great card if you’re a student nurse or have a student nurse in your life:
Yes, that does look infected
9. Nursing instructors
And speaking of those poor nursing instructors who have to take bewildered students and help them feel comfortable with their new role, how about this?
Life: Like Herding Nursing Students
10. Retired nurses
And finally, we can’t forget the fabulous nurses who made it to the end of their careers and finally have retired to enjoy life:
You Know You’re a Retired Nurse IF…
Love the hat in # 4 and love the part about a 2 hour lunch.
Had a GI doc ask me once why he had so many nurse patients that had bowel problems. I looked at him and said “Well, if you have to go to the bathroom and someone isn’t breathing, which do you attend to first?” (I didn’t say anything about the ‘taking 10 mninutes to eat cheetos for lunch or the downing a can of Ensure at 2100 because you didn’t get dinner or…)You can’t hit them with a stick, but you would really like to.
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Registered Nurse
yep! i can go all day without going to the bathroom but run thru the house to my bathroom as soon as i pull into the garage!!! never fails!
LOVE IT!!
I’m in my first semester of nursing and Pharmacology is one of the current classes I’m taking. I’m so printing this and giving it to my nursing professor.
This really made me laugh – keep them coming
Love it!!!!!
love this one. it’s true too. A successfull night is that my patients are still a live by the morning!!
A successful shift is one that no one died, no one got put in restraints, and you lived through it.
Loved all cards n where can I get them?
Loved them all!Where can I purchase them!
Many years ago I had a surgical intern w/me while I was inserting a foley cath–I had a little contest going on with the interns. I could insert them so quickly and do the surgical prep but if the interns wanted to they only had two minutes—then I took over–too much wasted time—this was on a female—when I asked him if he knew how to “do this”?–he said, “yep, I’m married!”.
I THOUGHT I WOULD FALL OVER!! I gently told him that he was thinking about the wrong “orifice”.
(It took him longer than two minutes–I took over…..)
RN
Registered Nurse
priceless!!!
Nurse Debi says; If I have to pull up my big girl panties and deal with it one more time the elastic is going to break and I really will have to show my a**
LMAO !! I love your comment Nurse Debi…..
RN
Registered Nurse
Love this one!!! i found a tee shirt once that said “Nurses; we are here to save your a%% not kiss it!” Now dont get me wrong, i love love love being a nurse, but sometimes there is that one patient or family member that stretches your last ounce of patience!!! I always try to remember to look at it from their side of the table!
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I’m Tired says it all I must have repeated it the whole twelve hour shift.