Friday, July 9, 2010

Cleveland or Miami?

I think that ER nurses do some pretty amazing things. Some of them require years of studying, such as understanding pretty much every drug under the sun and how it works within the body. Some of them come with experience, such as starting IVs on patients who have had chemo pumped through their bodies leaving them with no veins to be seen or putting a foley catherter into the bladder of a 400 lb. obese woman who had 12 children fourty years ago. Other amazing things can't be taught. We're the ones who are there when a patient learns that the cancer they have been fighting has spread or to hold the hand of a mother who has just lost her child. Pretty awesome stuff.

But apparently not awesome enough. Apparently they need to include a day in nursing school about how to throw a round orange ball into a hoop. Then we'll be considered awesome.

*sigh*

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