Bedlam Among the Bedpans

Chapter 1 IT’S A FINE LIFE<br><br>Top 10 Reasons to Become a Nurse<br><br>Top Ten Reasons to Become a School Nurse <br><br>You Know You’re a Nurse When<br><br>You Might Be an Emergency Room (ER) Nurse If…<br><br>Celebrate! Celebrate! Dance to the Music of Nursing <br><br>So What Really Made You Become a Nurse?<br><br>You Know It’s Gonna Be a Day When…<br><br>Your Patient’s a Nurse When… <br><br>10 Signs You Have Become Obsessed with Home Care <br><br>You Might Be a Nurse If… <br><br>Top Ten Reasons Why I Went into Nursing<br><br>You May Have Too Much Experience as an Emergency Nurse if… <br><br>Top Ten Signs That It’s Going to be a Bad Shift<br><br>You Know You’re a Nurse When…<br><br><br>Chapter 2 LOOKIN’ GOOD BUT FEELIN’ BAD<br><br>Blood Pressure <br><br>Need You Ask?<br><br>Denture Adventures <br><br>Odious Odours <br><br>What a Weekend! <br><br>The Crisis of Today<br><br>Not Just Window Dressing: Gowns as the Latest Fashion <br><br>‘Twas the Night before Christmas: Codes for the Holidays<br><br>Fire Drill Protocol<br><br>Passing Fads <br><br>Kidney Confusion<br><br>More “Official Explanations” of Emergency Nursing <br><br>Hold the Mayo <br><br>Medical Mishaps<br><br>Pre-op Instructions as Our Patients Hear Them <br><br>Pot Luck <br><br>How High is Too High? <br><br>Even Nurses Have to Laugh<br><br><br>Chapter 3 YOU’RE THE TOP<br><br>Treat Your Nurse Right<br><br>It’s Hard to Live with a Nurse Because…<br><br>True Life: The World According to a Practice Nurse<br><br>The Nurse<br> <br>This Time I Mean It <br><br>What’s In a Name <br><br>Nurses Do It Better <br><br>We Are a Funny Lot <br><br>Achy Breaky Neck <br><br>Bubbles <br><br>Can You Hear Me Now? <br><br>Nurses Whose Names Give Away a Tad Too Much<br><br>Beware: Mum Under Training <br><br>Woe to be The Kid of Nurse! <br><br><br>Chapter 4 SHALL I TELL YOU WHAT I THINK OF YOU?<br><br>Praise Nurses and Your Patients Will Live Forever or Die Happy <br><br>Bugs are Not Funny Syndrome<br><br>3 Doctors & 3 Nurses<br><br>Meeting Her Needs <br><br>A New Speech Therapy Technique <br><br>Skipping the Beat <br><br>A Doctor, a Nurse, and a Shredder<br><br>Fast! Warm! Fuzzy! Emergency! <br><br>Help?<br><br>Creating the “Wow” Experience <br><br><br>Chapter 5 COULD WE START AGAIN, PLEASE?<br><br>Help…I’ve Misplaced My Pronoun!<br><br>Charting Bloopers: Spelling Errors <br><br>Lost for Words <br><br>The Study of “Ology” <br><br>Charting Chuckles <br><br>More Charting Chuckles<br> <br>Medical Terminology 101 <br><br>Top Ten Odd Medical Record Statements<br><br>CPT Codes That Will Make You Chuckle <br><br>Premedicated Humor <br><br>Quotable Quotes from Transcription <br><br>My Trips Over the Language Barrier<br><br>Clarification, Please!<br><br>Document—Don’t Duckamint! <br><br>Acronyms anon<br><br>Mr. Jones’ Diary<br><br><br>Chapter 6 NIGHT AND DAY<br><br>Finding Humor in Our Workplace<br><br>Nursing Realities<br><br>Desperate Strategies for Last-minute Staffing <br><br>Top Ten Reasons (and More) Why I Want Star Trek’s Medical Beds in My Unit!<br><br>What Does R.N. Really Stand For? <br><br>A Mind of ITs Own <br><br>Do You Know Me? I’m a Nurse <br><br>I Wish I’d Shaved My Legs <br><br>Bathroom Humor <br><br>Yep, That’s My Job Too! <br><br>Images of The Perfect Nurse <br><br>Paydirt<br><br>What are YOU Like? <br><br>Twas the Night Before Christmas <br><br>“Twas the Night…” <br><br><br>Chapter 7 THE ROAD YOU DIDN’T TAKE<br><br>Professor Plume’s Letters <br><br>My Most Humorous Moment in Nursing <br><br>Constipation among Operating Room Nurses: Flatulence as Evidence <br><br>Do Your Own Homework <br><br>Pie-eyed and Deskless <br><br>But is it Sterile? <br><br>Stating the Obvious <br><br>Keeping Them in Stitches: Humor in Perioperative Education <br><br>Bathing Beauty<br> <br>Media Lament <br><br>Best Excuses if You Get Caught Sleeping at Your Desk<br><br>Expert Nurse vs. Educated Nurse <br><br><br>Chapter 8 LOOK FOR THE SILVER LINING<br><br>Modern Nurses Need a Perfect Body<br><br>Memorandum: Addendum to the Employee Handbook<br><br>A Cost Saving Memo<br><br>The Six Million Dollar Nurse <br><br>Reengineering for the Birds <br><br>Arsenic and Old Remedies <br><br>The Joys of Aging <br><br>Cuts by Any Other Name<br> <br>How to Know You Are Growing Older <br><br>Identity Crisis <br><br>Rear View <br><br>30 Thoughts for 30 Years <br><br>I’m Too Old for This!