A must-read for nursing professionals, Bedlam Among the Bedpans: Humor in Nursing, includes over 100 of the funniest and most creative stories about nursing collected from nursing journals, books, and the internet that highlight the humor in the situations nurses face every day. Inspired by the experiences of real nurses, the stories relate situations with insights that only nurses who have "been there" in the field could have. Includes some of the best pieces of creative and humorous writing published in the past 20 years. Stories that help nurses see the humor in challenging situations they encounter every day. Funny cartoons and illustrations that add even more humor to the book. Compiled by an academic librarian, this book includes a carefully chosen and well-rounded collection of entertaining stories.
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Compiles writings that bring levity to the serious and challenging world of the nursing profession. This title features articles filled with insights into the diverse situations and issues that confront nursing students and nursing professionals every day. It includes over 100 pieces of whimsical and witty writings by or about nurses.
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Chapter 1 IT'S A FINE LIFE Top 10 Reasons to Become a Nurse Top Ten Reasons to Become a School Nurse You Know You're 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 It's Gonna Be a Day When. Your Patient's 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 It's Going to be a Bad Shift You Know You're 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 Laugh Chapter 3 YOU'RE THE TOP Treat Your Nurse Right It's Hard to Live with a Nurse Because. True Life: The World According to a Practice Nurse The Nurse This Time I Mean It What's 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.I've 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-Don't Duckamint! Acronyms anon Mr. Jones' Diary Chapter 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 Trek's Medical Beds in My Unit! What Does R.N. Really Stand For? A Mind of ITs Own Do You Know Me? I'm a Nurse I Wish I'd Shaved My Legs Bathroom Humor Yep, That's 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 DIDN'T TAKE Professor Plume's 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 I'm Too Old for This!
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A hilarious look at the situations nurses tackle daily featuring over 100 stories and cartoons inspired by the experiences of real nurses

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ISBN
9780323045247
Publisert
2006-10-11
Utgiver
Vendor
Mosby
Vekt
250 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
176

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