on being a nurse..

You don't get excited about blood loss-unless it's your own.
You live by the motto; "To be right is only half the battle; to convince the patient is more difficult."
You've been exposed to so many x-rays that you consider it a form of birth control.
Your bladder can expand to the same size as an elephants.
Your idea of a meal break is finishing your coffee before it gets cold
You have to leave the patient before you begin to laugh uncontrollably
Your idea of fine dining is sitting down to eat
You think that caffeine should be available in IV form.
you can almost SEE the germs on doorknobs and telephones.
You have a special shrine in your home to the inventor of Haldol
You have recurrent nightmares of being hit and run over by the portable x-ray machine
You call tell the difference between a Doctor’s Order and the ground around a chicken farm
You ask, “Sleep? What’s that?”
The nurse who can smile when things go wrong is probably going off duty.

an excerpt from www.youmightbe.com.

funny true!jokes are half-meant!

On being a nurse, I learned that life is full of surprises. People I met and will be meeting (from patients to co-workers), experiences I encountered and will be encountering, knowledge I acquired and will be learning made me a better person and still in the process of becoming "more" better in such a way that I get to see different aspects of life,however most of the time are sufferings and pains, but there are also joys like when patients leave the hospital in good sense and learned to become more responsible of their health.

Come walk in our shoes for the whole shift and you'll be surprised. Being on duty is like a box of chocolates, you'll never know what you'll get until you open it.Whenever we hear a sincere "thank you" from a patient we feel an incomparable sense of self-fulfillment and self-worth. One of my unforgettable flattering experience is when my patient told me that I am an angel with a stethoscope. All thankless hours worth it.