Are you having any pain?

What it feels like to be a nurse at an inner city hospital.

When someone is giving you a really long answer to a really short question

“What is the patient’s diet?”

”..well you see, when he went to OR…”

When my patient yelled at me because I never demanded that she pee

I thought it was understod when I said, “All you need to do is urinate and then you can go home” that you would tell me when you felt the urge. Not wait for me to ask if you have the urge.

This really could not be more true.

The interns to the medical students

When you show up for work and you aren’t scheduled

When I ask a patient which nurse told them that

Just another day at the office

When patients tell me I remind them of someone

They meant it as a compliment, right?

When you are too lazy to use the lift equipment

A much celebrated foley insertion with the highest difficulty level short of cystourethroscopy