October 18, 2007     

Mrs. A? Mrs. A? She’s not responding!

NOTE FROM KIM:

Well someone has to work that 11 to 7 shift. And
that someone has to find something constructive
to do when all the patients are asleep…

The Top 7 Signs the
Night Shift Was Bored

7> Tongue depressors, bandage tape and casting gauze have been
crafted into an eight-foot T-Rex nurse.

6> Security lists 67 separate overnight pagings of “Dr. Howard,
Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard.”

5> Each patient’s hair has been braided into cornrows. *All*
their hair.

4> “U. C. Bonez,” the admit in 37A, has a diagnosis of “terminal
anorexia,” and the anatomy lab is missing its skeleton again.

3> Head shots of the First-Year Residents have been glued into
the bottom of bedpans. The bedpans? Superglued to the ceiling.

2> “Oh hell. Can anyone find me a pen that *doesn’t* have
disappearing ink in it?”

and the Number 1 Sign the Night Shift Was Bored…

1> Pathology slide captioned: “I haz teh lookeemya. I can haz
chemo?”

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Credits:

Selected from 27 submissions from 7 contributors.
This week’s list authors are:

Melanie Clark MD, Kalamazoo, MI — 1, 2, 4 (Hat trick!)
Mark Sweatt, Marietta, GA — 3
Scott Witmer, Hanover, PA — 5, 6
Stephen A. Segall MD, Poplar Bluff, MO — 7
Kim Walker-Daniels RN/NWA, Madison, WI — Nurse Manager