From One Nurse To Another

• I don’t  care how long you have been a nurse.
• I don’t care how long you have not been a nurse.
• I care how well you treat your patients
• I care how well you treat my patients
• I care how well you work with others.
• Equality and fairness is not a standard you get to set, it is a standard we all get to follow.
• Perfume and Cologne. Is THAT much really necessary? Just a splash will do.
• I don’t want to hear how you’ve always done it.
• I don’t want to hear how you’ve never done it.
• I can learn from you as much as you can learn from me. Let’s try.
• Just because you’ve never heard of it, doesn’t mean it’s not better.
• Just because you’ve never seen it, doesn’t mean it’s not better.
• There is more than one ‘style’ of nursing.
• Learning is the only process that is constant in Nursing.
• You will NEVER know everything.
• Hanging up on me in mid-conversation doesn’t make the issue go away.
• No. Not in front of the patient. We can talk somewhere else.
• Raising the level of your voice does not cause me to listen any more intently.
• Raising the level of your voice does not make your message sound any clearer.
• Increasing your “bitchassness” does not solve problems, it only creates them.
• Increasing your “bitchassness” does not lessen the stress level in the room.
• Passive-aggressiveness does not excuse your in-action.
• If your job is so bad, go find a new and better one. At least you have a job.
• Can’t find a better job?, then keep your complaints to yourself. At least you still have a job.
• Pointing a finger at someone else causes you to point 4 more fingers back at yourself.
• The last time I checked, we all graduated high school. Can we act accordingly please?
• Just because it wasn’t done YOUR way, does not mean it was the WRONG way.
• We all have a life outside of work. Sanity helps me keep the two separate.
• Trust is something earned, not something taken.
• Is it my fault you are having a bad day?
• We all have a job to do, and someone to answer to.
• We have all had THAT bad day. Don’t act as if your bad day is something special.
• We are in this together, otherwise we won’t survive.

Sorry. I’ve been carrying this stuff around for a while now. Care to add to the list?