It's nurses week, apparently. So if you know a nurse, or happen to be a nurse yourself, today is your day!
The Ranks of a Hospital Surgeon: Leaps tall buildings in a single bound Is more productive than a train Is faster than a speeding bullet Walks on water Talks with God Internist: Leaps short buildings in a single bound Is more powerful than a switch engine Is faster than a speeding BB Walks on water if the sea is calm Talks with God if special request is approved General Practitioner: Leaps short buildings with a running start and favorable winds Is almost as powerful as a switch engine Can fire a speeding bullet Walks on water in an indoor swimming pool Is occasionally addressed by God Resident: Barely clears a picket fence Loses tug-of-war with a train Can sometimes handle a gun without inflicting self-injury Swims well Talks with animals Intern: Makes high skid marks on a wall when trying to leap buildings Is run over by a train Is not issued ammunition Dog paddles Talks to walls Medical Student: Runs into buildings Recognizes a train 2 out of 3 times Wets himself with a water pistol Cannot stay afloat without a life preserver Mumbles to himself Nurse: Lifts buildings and walks under them Kicks trains off the track Catches speeding bullets with her teeth and eats them Freezes water with a single glance The Nurse IS God!!!! Source unknown. http://www.npcentral.net/humor/sub.jokes.shtml
I have no idea, it's been around for decades. Could have been written by a doctor, we are appreciated quite a bit within many hospitals, especially teaching hospitals. I've worked in a dozen different settings and despite some of the uninformed posts here about nurses, in many of those settings we really are seen by the doctors as colleagues, not underlings. The nurse knows the hospital system better than the physicians and they know we have answers they don't about that system. They also know we have information about the patients they need and they rely on us to have.
I'm going to show those ranks to my students (soon to be registered/public health nurses). Make it into a language exercise
