Journal of Nursing Jocularity

Journal of Nursing Jocularity

Posts Tagged 'nursing humor'

It Never Fails

  • The craziest shift you’ve ever had in your entire career will be the day of the fire drill.
  • The harder the stick, the more labs are needed.
  • Your nose won’t itch all day…until the minute you get those gloves on!
  • The one colleague you tell how difficult your patient is being is the one person related to that patient — usually for a hundred miles!
  • The more adamant the visitor is about their extensive medical background, the more likely they are to hit the floor at the first sight of blood.
  • The further the bed is from the nurses’ station, the more often the call button is pressed.
  • The more unsteady a patient is, the more determined they become to shower alone.
  • There’s a box of every sized glove you need on your floor — except yours.
  • The minute you make it into the supply room is the minute you forgot what you needed.
  • The more critical the equipment, the more likely it is to be broken.

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A Joke a Day Keeps the Doctor Away!

Jonny Hawkins has been cartooning professionally since
1986. His work has appeared in over 500 publications and in hundreds of books, greeting cards and other products.

He annually creates the Medical Cartoon-A-Day and Fishing Cartoon-A-Day calendars and is busy working on a Dog Cartoon-A-Day and Cat Cartoon-A-Day desk calendars for 2011. You can get his latest book A Joke a Day Keeps the Doctor Away here.

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From Ha-Ha to a-HA!: Using Humor to Transform Nursing Education by Shirley K. Trout, PhD, MEd

Probing Questions: The perfect set-up for a nursing joke!

Okay, readers. This month I’m taking a risk. I need to discuss the concept of “probing questions,” but I’ve been around enough nurses to know that simply saying the word, “probing,” sends them off into a world OB nurses and proctologists know all-too-well.

Perhaps I could use the alternative term, “open-ended.” But, again, my mind jumps directly to hospital gowns.

This is a real distraction!

Jumping in, regardless: 6 core questions

Despite my mental images of all the take-offs you’re going to launch into, it is important that nurse educators be fully armed with one of the most powerful teaching techniques available for the professional educator: asking probing (open-ended/higher-order) questions. By open-ended, we mean those that cannot be answered by a simple yes/no or fact. By higher-order, we mean those that cause a person to think and to integrate a range of information in the generation of their answer.

Have you ever stopped to realize that there are only six types of questions? That’s right. SIX. Regardless of what words a person chooses to use, you are always trying to get at six questions or some derivative of them: who, when, where, what, how and why. (more…)

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Who Knew? Heaven Can Wait!

After living to a ripe old age, Dr. Jones, a world-famous surgeon, passed away during his sleep. He found himself at the back of an extremely long line leading up to the Pearly Gates.

After waiting what seemed like an eternity, Dr. Jones decided that he shouldn’t have to wait in line. He walked up to the Pearly Gates and said to St. Peter, “I’m Dr. Benny Jones, world famous surgeon. While on earth, I saved many lives and cured countless illnesses. I don’t think I should have to wait in this line.”

St. Peter curtly replied, “Here in Heaven, everyone is treated the same. Now go back to the end of the line.”

As he walked to the back of the line, he noticed a gentleman in a white lab coat with a leather bag and stethoscope, obviously a doctor, walk up to the front of the line. St. Peter waved him right through.

Furious, Dr. Jones ran up to St. Peter and shouted, “Why did that doctor get to go right through?”

St. Peter smiled and said, “Oh, that was God. Sometimes he just likes to play doctor.”

Do you have a favorite doctor joke? Send it to us at Cindy@journalofnursingjocularity.com We’ll share it with the world!

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