• The hospital always sends admissions to your nursing home at change of shift on your weekend on - the physician's weekend off.

• The number of staff to be found on the ward is inversely proportional to the scale of the emergency

• The lift always breaks down when the 400 pound patient needs to be transferred from one bed to another

• You always remember ‘just one more thing' you need after you've gowned, gloved, and masked and gone into that isolation room

• As soon as you've ordered the pizzas, 25 patients show up at the ER registration desk along with three ambulances all with cardiac arrests

• Rest assured that when you are in a hurry, the nurse's notes have not been written

• You will always fall short of one pill for the last patient at the end of duty with the supply room in the other wing…

• The doctor with the strongest foreign accent will be the one who calls you back on a cell phone with a bad connection

• You have been working flat all day without even a coffee break, but the moment you sit down, the supervisor walks around the corner and sees you doing nothing

• Management truly believes you are overpaid. But would never work for what they pay you.

• Despite an apartment littered with clothes, the dog will always sleep on the one clean uniform that you had laid out the night before.

• If you're running around horribly busy, you're unorganized and need to prioritize, but if you're not running around horribly busy, you're lazy and need to find more work to do

But with all these things….Nurses dispense comfort,

compassion, and caring without even a prescription.

Nurses are angels in comfortable shoes.

And they represent a noble profession.

Three cheers to them….with a big bouquet