Under the Baby's Bassinet

Sunday, June 14, 2009 by Nurses in Action
Top medical shows have nothing on us! As managers revolve in and out of the doors, babies continue to be born. We have the male secretary/tech (affectionately known as the "man-a-tary" to us) who can schmooze the phone off the hook. We have the compassionate, ultra-professional nurse who only hugs at Christmas and funerals (and then only if forced into it). We have the married, divorced and single parents. We have colleagues with the saddest, hardest, headline-making personal lives that terminally wound our hearts and remind us to be thankful everyday. We complain, criticize and lunch together. We secretly decide which physician or pharmacist would be our dream "back up" if our husbands were suddenly abducted by aliens. We wrangle for assignments are are thoroughly frustrated, frustrating and entertaining. We fight, bicker and insult each other and then we come together as a united front when the chips are down and move in tandem to save lives, fix the broken and console the mourning. We are what reality t.v. can only hope to imagine. We are a tight unit that is run by the greatest people never to receive an award.

Name: MARGARET H., RN
City: YORKTOWN
State: VIRGINIA

Comments for Under the Baby's Bassinet

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 by Vicki P.:
I want to go work with Margaret H. in Yorktown VA. This sounds like the old time nursing I was part of 30 years ago. Thanks for sharing and letting us know groups like yours are still out there!

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