Archive for November, 2009
Eliza Katherine Gallagher works in Emergency. her friends call her Kate, but when she initials a chart, she’s “EKG”
Do you love this kind of humor? Then you won’t want to miss Andrew Heenan’s Coincidental Nurses Page where he collects some of the best examples.
Posted in: Bubbly-ography
Leave a Comment (0) →Dear Nurse Marge,
Can you develop an allergy to phones? I think I have: the minute I go off duty, I develop an uncontrollable nervous reaction that is triggered by the sound of my cell phone ringing. I twitch, I flail, my eyes roll back in my head…it’s terrible.
I try ignoring the phone but if I know it’s work and I don’t answer, I feel terribly guilty. But I don’t want to go into work on my day off. What do I do?
Signed,
Phone-phobic in PA
Dear Phone-Phobic,
It sounds to me like you need one of those hypo-allergenic phones. They’re expensive, but worth every penny. Here’s what you do. You get a telephone, from any major carrier. Then you hire a personal assistant to carry the phone around all of the time. They have to be far enough away from you at all times so you can’t hear the phone ringing! Then, they take all your calls. If work is calling, they can ignore it. Why not? They’re still getting paid…as long as you have a job!
Good Luck!
Nurse Marge
Posted in: Jokes
Leave a Comment (0) →There are always a lot of policemen on the road during the holiday season, so we pulled out a favorite law enforcement joke from the JNJ archives:
Q: What happens when a heart specialist gets stopped by the highway patrol?
A: Cardiac arrest!
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Leave a Comment (0) →Horoscopes just for Nurses!
Sagittarius
We know you’re silver tongued, Sagittarius, but this week, you’ll find your foot firmly in your mouth if you’re not careful! Communications prove to be troubling until Thursday, at which point much will become clear.
Capricorn
Fears crop up from a long-forgotten corner, Capricorn; anxiety and self-doubt plague every decision. That is until you remember to consider the source of your loudest critics — and the fact they think the hospital is REALLY just like Scrubs!
Aquarius
Logistical triumphs mark your week, Aquarius: who else can dispense meds, track down a wandering patient, get a doctor to clarify an order, answer the call button nineteen times, and re-start the IV pump the visitor shut off for being ‘too loud’ all in the first twelve seconds of a shift?
Pisces
It must be Thanksgiving, Pisces: You’re surrounded by turkeys!
Aries
The unexpected is so usual that you consider even the strangest day routine, Aries, but this week something will happen that will shatter your usual aplomb. Make sure to knock on every door and announce yourself before pulling back every curtain, just to be sure!
Taurus
This week presents you with the opportunity to make exciting self-discoveries, Taurus. Doesn’t that sound wonderful? (Yes, we’d run and hide too…)
Gemini
This holiday season, you’ll find yourself surrounded by people who think your life is either exactly like “Mercy” or “Scrubs” Confuse them by acting out the funny bits of the former and the sexy bits of the latter.
Cancer
Studies DO say that having companion animals speeds recovery times. Lucky you has the patient who decides to test the theory with a head full of crawly little companions. Let’s see if they get well before you get ill!
Leo
It’s amazing, isn’t it, Leo, how the same family members who hadn’t seen Granny in years are now incensed it might take you a minute to respond to her call?
Virgo
You know you’re getting older when your first thought upon hearing about Sketcher’s new line of nursing shoes was not “What do they look like?” but “How comfortable are they?” This week will be full of similar distressing moments of self-knowledge.
Libra
A passionate love affair is beginning on your unit. Everyone knows, but no one wants to say. You can see it in their eyes…the sideways glances, the raised eyebrow. It’s just not natural for someone to be *that* fond of the coffeepot!
Scorpio
Almost every nurse cares for someone famous over the course of this career. This could be your week as the world’s most famous catfish wrangler and professional contortionist needs care.
Reflecting on what’s been learned
As yet another semester races toward closure it is important you make and take time to reflect on the activities in which you had your students engaged. Now that your students have some distance, what educational value can your students identify as they reflect on one activity after another?
Especially if you’ve integrated humor-based activities into your instruction, your students need to look back, inward, and outward, to see – and communicate with you and their peers – how all the semester’s activities have contributed toward what they have learned. This is not a graded activity. The purpose of the conversation is to help students reflect, integrate, synthesize and articulate what they learned. (more…)
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