Description
This book is a unique compilation of creative, humorous writings that bring levity to the serious and challenging world of the nursing profession. The engaging and funny articles in this new publication are filled with insights into the diverse situations and issues that confront nursing students and nursing professionals every day. The title includes over 100 pieces of whimsical and witty writings by or about nurses such as Lookin Good but Feelin Bad.” Amusing cartoons and illustrations are included for more human interest! This book is an excellent gift for nursing students and others in the nursing and health-related professions
Product Details
Reference
30774
EAN13
9780323045247
ISBN
9780323045247
Data sheet
Publication date
2006
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
176
Dimensions (mm)
152 x 229
Weight (g)
249
Chapter 1 ITS A FINE LIFE Top 10 Reasons to Become a Nurse Top Ten Reasons to Become a School Nurse You Know Youre a Nurse When You Might Be an Emergency Room (ER) Nurse If. Celebrate! Celebrate! Dance to the Music of Nursing So What Really Made You Become a Nurse? You Know Its Gonna Be a Day When. Your Patients a Nurse When. 10 Signs You Have Become Obsessed with Home Care You Might Be a Nurse If. Top Ten Reasons Why I Went into Nursing You May Have Too Much Experience as an Emergency Nurse if. Top Ten Signs That Its Going to be a Bad Shift You Know Youre a Nurse When.Chapter 2 LOOKIN GOOD BUT FEELIN BAD Blood Pressure Need You Ask? Denture Adventures Odious Odours What a Weekend! The Crisis of Today Not Just Window Dressing: Gowns as the Latest Fashion Twas the Night before Christmas: Codes for the Holidays Fire Drill Protocol Passing Fads Kidney Confusion More Official Explanations” of Emergency Nursing Hold the Mayo Medical Mishaps Pre-op Instructions as Our Patients Hear Them Pot Luck How High is Too High? Even Nurses Have to LaughChapter 3 YOURE THE TOP Treat Your Nurse Right Its Hard to Live with a Nurse Because. True Life: The World According to a Practice Nurse The Nurse This Time I Mean It Whats In a Name Nurses Do It Better We Are a Funny Lot Achy Breaky Neck Bubbles Can You Hear Me Now? Nurses Whose Names Give Away a Tad Too Much Beware: Mum Under Training Woe to be The Kid of Nurse! Chapter 4 SHALL I TELL YOU WHAT I THINK OF YOU? Praise Nurses and Your Patients Will Live Forever or Die Happy Bugs are Not Funny Syndrome 3 Doctors & 3 Nurses Meeting Her Needs A New Speech Therapy Technique Skipping the Beat A Doctor, a Nurse, and a Shredder Fast! Warm! Fuzzy! Emergency! Help? Creating the Wow” Experience Chapter 5 COULD WE START AGAIN, PLEASE? Help.Ive Misplaced My Pronoun! Charting Bloopers: Spelling Errors Lost for Words The Study of Ology” Charting Chuckles More Charting Chuckles Medical Terminology 101 Top Ten Odd Medical Record Statements CPT Codes That Will Make You Chuckle Premedicated Humor Quotable Quotes from Transcription My Trips Over the Language Barrier Clarification, Please! Document-Dont Duckamint! Acronyms anon Mr. Jones DiaryChapter 6 NIGHT AND DAY Finding Humor in Our Workplace Nursing Realities Desperate Strategies for Last-minute Staffing Top Ten Reasons (and More) Why I Want Star Treks Medical Beds in My Unit! What Does R.N. Really Stand For? A Mind of ITs Own Do You Know Me? Im a Nurse I Wish Id Shaved My Legs Bathroom Humor Yep, Thats My Job Too! Images of The Perfect Nurse Paydirt What are YOU Like? Twas the Night Before Christmas Twas the Night.” Chapter 7 THE ROAD YOU DIDNT TAKE Professor Plumes Letters My Most Humorous Moment in Nursing Constipation among Operating Room Nurses: Flatulence as Evidence Do Your Own Homework Pie-eyed and Deskless But is it Sterile? Stating the Obvious Keeping Them in Stitches: Humor in Perioperative Education Bathing Beauty Media Lament Best Excuses if You Get Caught Sleeping at Your Desk Expert Nurse vs. Educated Nurse Chapter 8 LOOK FOR THE SILVER LINING Modern Nurses Need a Perfect Body Memorandum: Addendum to the Employee Handbook A Cost Saving Memo The Six Million Dollar Nurse Reengineering for the Birds Arsenic and Old Remedies The Joys of Aging Cuts by Any Other Name How to Know You Are Growing Older Identity Crisis Rear View 30 Thoughts for 30 Years Im Too Old for This!