Laughter Therapy: Differences Between Graduate Nurse and Experienced Nurses
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Differences Between Graduate Nurse and Experienced Nurses
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A Graduate Nurse throws up when the patient does.
An experienced nurse calls housekeeping when a patient throws up.
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A Graduate Nurse wears so many pins on their name
badge you can´t read it.
An experienced nurse doesn´t wear a name badge for liability reasons
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A Graduate Nurse charts too much.
An experienced nurse doesn´t chart enough.
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A Graduate Nurse loves to run to codes.
An experienced nurse makes graduate nurses run to codes.
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A Graduate Nurse wants everyone to know they are
a nurse.
An experienced nurse doesn´t want anyone to know they are a nurse.
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A Graduate Nurse keeps detailed notes on a pad.
An experienced nurse writes on the back of their hand, paper scraps,
napkins, etc.
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A Graduate Nurse will spend all day trying to
reorient a patient.
An experienced nurse will chart the patient is disoriented and
restrain them.
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A Graduate Nurse can hear a beeping I-med at 50
yards.
An experienced nurse can´t hear any alarms at any distance.
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A Graduate Nurse loves to hear abnormal heart and
breath sounds.
An experienced nurse doesn´t want to know about them unless the
patient is symptomatic.
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A Graduate Nurse spends 2 hours giving a patient
a bath.
An experienced nurse lets the CNA give the patient a bath.
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A Graduate Nurse thinks people respect Nurses.
An experienced nurse knows everybody blames everything on the nurse.
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A Graduate Nurse looks for blood on a bandage
hoping they will get to change it.
An experienced nurse knows a little blood never hurt anybody.
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A Graduate Nurse looks for a chance “to work with
the family.”
An experienced nurse avoids the family.
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A Graduate Nurse expects meds and supplies to be
delivered on time.
An experienced nurse expects them to never be delivered at all.
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A Graduate Nurse will spend days bladder training
an incontinent patient.
An experienced nurse will insert a Foley catheter.
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A Graduate Nurse always answers their phone.
An experienced nurse checks their caller ID before answering the
phone.
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A Graduate Nurse thinks psych patients are
interesting.
An experienced nurse thinks psych patients are crazy.
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A Graduate Nurse carries reference books in their
bag.
An experienced nurse carries magazines, lunch, and some “cough syrup”
in their bag.
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A Graduate Nurse doesn´t find this funny.
An experienced nurse does.
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