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