April 16, 2007 | Filed under: amigos, hello, nurse!, misadventures
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A funny thing happened this past weekend: we didn’t have any patients admitted on our tour. Quite literally the calm before the storm. No babies born. No one in labor. Just empty rooms. This doesn’t happen all that often, so when it does, we react the way any other normal adult professionals would if they were in our place. We hold raucous sing-alongs, careen down the hallways on anything with wheels and eat like crazy. Then there’s more singing, of course, some dancing and then some more hall-surfing. Wackiness ensues.
I gripe about my job a lot. I’ve said many times that “I love the work, but I hate the job” and that still holds true to an extent. The work is fascinating and–on a good day–rewarding as all heck, but the politics of nursing can really, really really get me down. Two things make it bearable: those glimmers of good days where I feel like I’m truly helping my patients, and the strong, funny and goofy women I work with. There’s a handful of them in this video, but there are many more. Sure, we have our bad apples like anyplace else, but most of them are sweet and funny and intelligent and kind and caring…and some sing a mean baritone, to boot.
April 17, 2007
@ 3:59 am
This reminds of the novel/flick ‘Children of Men’, when nurses & midwives are the first to notice the human race is dying out because no one is booked into the wards…
April 17, 2007
@ 4:15 am
Gee… so you are a pole dancer. Wow. There is some talent there. You seem to get along so well. Good group of ladies there. Peace.
April 17, 2007
@ 6:04 pm
Awesome!
You are too fun, MissB.
April 18, 2007
@ 10:19 am
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I needed to see that. People having fun, enjoying each other. Being silly and not giving a hoot! I’m an ER nurse and I needed, once again, to see the human element in nursing. You just recharged my batteries. God bless you all!!
Steve
April 18, 2007
@ 2:28 pm
What? Like they didn’t pull 1 or 2 of you to some sorry ass med-surg floor?
April 18, 2007
@ 6:18 pm
Funny, I thought Children of Men as well - until I saw the video. I feel better already.
April 18, 2007
@ 7:00 pm
Medical professionals have fun too.
April 18, 2007
@ 8:26 pm
Was that nurse Ratchett in the backround?
April 20, 2007
@ 7:10 am
I know excatly what you mean, here at my work, it’s so mind numbing it’s not funny and now we are going through some “challanges”, those few times we can just have some fun are priceless because it is so far and few between
April 20, 2007
@ 10:40 pm
Thanks for posting this one, it really isn’t that difficult to make the world a better place, just takes a little bit of fun…
April 21, 2007
@ 5:24 pm
Oh that was SO much fun. As the former manager of an ob/gyn clinic attached to a birthing center, I can appreciate both the unusualness of this–and the joy you all must have felt!
April 22, 2007
@ 7:51 am
Buggin. hahaha
April 25, 2007
@ 12:53 pm
Low wage grocery store, or professional hospital… when there aren’t any customers around you take full advantage!
April 25, 2007
@ 7:52 pm
That was soooo coo-el!
April 28, 2007
@ 10:07 am
What?? No wheelchair races?? No kickball with the birthing ball??
Hehehe, I love the IV pole ride down the hall though - fantastic! Takes me back to my old hospital where we had nights like those!
April 29, 2007
@ 11:57 pm
awesome! thanks for showing us what goes on when there are no patients.
May 1, 2007
@ 8:08 pm
Who needs Grey’s Anataomy?
Jane
May 5, 2007
@ 12:33 am
LOL! This was a fun vid to watch.
May 5, 2007
@ 8:18 pm
Great times!
May 15, 2007
@ 1:21 pm
nothing like the night i had my one. full moon. sweet jesus. ive never head such moaning and screaming..