Happy Nurse's Week

I know what some of you are thinking...farm blog and nurses week how does that go together? Well this is a farm & family blog and I consider the people I work with to be part of the family. Considering that John and I are both nurses along with many of my very best friends I thought what the heck I'll torture some of my co-workers today and bring my camera in to work and write a quick blip tonight. They look quite distraught don't they? I announced a photo shot at 2pm. A couple of my co-workers were whining, yes I am talking about you Elaine, but before you know it we had at least half the ER crew posing and having a good ole' time! I work in 3 different ER's and oh yeah 1 college health center, all per diem working 20-36 hours per week depending on what I might be scheming to buy next. Some think I'm nuts but I think I am just ADD, self diagnosed, actually it just fits my personality. I love to float around and have great fun with my co-workers. I have tried working in other areas in nursing such as critical care and college health but I have always returned to the ED, I guess it is my passion... adrenaline junkie some might say. The people I work with are an amazing bunch! Working in the ED can be very stress full and we take things seriously but on our down times we love to have a little fun...how else could we survive? Here's a couple funnies for all you nurses, cheers to us! :)

"You Might Be a Nurse If..." *You can drink a pot of coffee and still go to sleep in the morning. *You believe every patient needs TLC: Thorazine, Lorazapam, and Compazine. *Your sense of humor seems to get more warped each year. *You think it is acceptable to use "penis" and "vagina" in a normal conversation. *You believe the definition of stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven´t fallen asleep yet. *You believe that if warm wine enemas were routinely ordered, patient complaints would greatly decrease. *You hope there´s a special place in Hell for the inventor of the call light. *You see stress as a normal way of life. *You have a tendency to laugh at your patient´s "big" problems. *You believe the problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. *Everything only happens all at once. *You´ve ever been telling work stories in a restaurant and had someone at another table throw-up. *You notice that you use more four-letter words now than before you became a nurse. *You believe all bleeding stops...eventually. *You don´t get excited about blood loss unless it´s your own. *You don´t hit patients or doctors....unless absolutely necessary. *You refer to motorcyclists as organ donors. *You believe Tylenol, Advil, or Excedrin provides a large part of your daily calorie intake requirements. *You´ve ever held a 14-gauge needle over someone´s vein and said, "Now your going to feel a little stick." *You can identify the "PID Shuffle" and the "Kidney Stone Squirm" at 15 feet. *You´ve ever had a patient with a nose ring, a brow ring and twelve earrings say, "I´m afraid of shots." *You think the ultimate cruel joke is get someone drunk, take them to the ER and tell them he OD´d on "some kind of pills." *You automatically multiply by three the number of drinks a patient claims to have daily. *You can keep a straight face when a patient responds, "Just two beers." *You stare at someone in utter disbelief when they actually cover their mouth to cough. *You have encouraged obnoxious patients to sign out AMA. *You believe the government should require a permit to reproduce. *Your most common assessment question at 2 a.m. is "Why is this an emergency now?" *You don´t believe 90% of what you´re told, and 75% of what you see. *You´ve ever had a patient look you dead in the eye and say, "I don´t know how that got stuck in there."