5 am at work

Its 0500, or 5 am in "normal person speak." Its a bit too soon to tape report on my patients, and my next med won't be due until 0630. Everyone is blessedly sleeping, so here I sit, listening to a wonderful CD put out bya local group called Natterjack. The CD is called On the Fly, and if you like Celtic/folk music, I highly suggest you take a listen.

I've also been browsing through some nursing humour, so I'll share a few of the best:

Nurse's Prayer

Dear Lord, Grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change,The courage to change the things I can,
and the Wisdom
to hide the bodies of those Doctors
I had to kill because they pushed me too far...

Top ten reasons to become a nurse

1. The pay is better than fast food, though the hours aren't as good.

2. Fashionable shoes and sexy white uniforms. (I LOVE my Birkies!)

3.Needles: "Tis better to give than recieve."

4. Reassure your patients that all bleeding stops...eventually.

5. Interesting aromas. (a gross understatement)

6. Courteous and infallible doctors who always leave clear orders in perfectly legible handwriting. (Yeah, right.)

7. Do enough charting to navigate around the world.

8. Celebrate all the holidays with your friends--at work.

9. Expose yourself to rare, exciting, and new diseases.

10. Take comfort in the fact that most of your patients survive no matter what you do to them.