This post goes out to my nursing friends, even if you are in school. I envy you sometimes. When I hear your stories about having to touch nasty people I do not.
The nursing uniforms that you wear look very comfortable. However, some of them are not cute. Some are you are lucky enough that all you have to wear is a lab coat . I like those simply because of the dorky like pocket that holds pens and such. The solid green medical scrubs remind me of the bad episodes of E.R. and various visits to the hospital. Hospital visits are never good. The random hours that some of you work, I could not handle. I would have really bad random mood swings and my family would hate me.
If you work in the ER and you have to tend to drunks, drug users, or homeless people my up most sympathy goes out to you.
If you work in the baby nursery and you see the good things and even the bad, how do you not cry daily?
How do you care for someone and empathize with them and then the next day , they are gone?
I respect all my nursing friends.
The nurse that so kindly braided my hair after my facial surgery at UNC, I don’t remember your name. I will never forget your kindness.
