What is a Nurse?

A (Good) nurse is :

• A nurse
• a friend, to hold your hand
• A psychologist, to help you through your strangest quirks and secrets
• A mom, to tell you "no" and put things back in perspective.
• a politician, so the hospital is a better place.
• an advocate, so we make sure the doctors don't kill you.
• a security guard, for when you start freaking out.
• a mechanic, for fixing everything and anything that breaks on the floor.
• a gymnast, for bending in really small spaces to plug in your IV.
• an artist, you are our canvas.
• a scientist, because what else do we use our critical thinking for?
• A diagnostician, because sometimes we diagnose you before the doctors do.

A nurse is not:

• a waiter, we are not employed to go and get you 4 sandwiches in 3 hours.
• a hotel attendant, we are not going to put a mint on your pillows.
• a punching bag, yeah-just try.
• your drug dealer, because actually- we can't just give you unlimited amounts of narcotics.
• a Marriage/family counselor- solve your own damn problems with your family, outside of the hospital.

C'mon fellow nurses out there- leave some comments with some more you can think of!



~WNB



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