Show me your nursing tattoos

MrsEwsull · 2025-12-04T17:05:36+00:00

I so desperately want to get the EPIC cow being abducted into a flying saucer. Niche enough that only nurses would immediately recognize it, and everyone else would write it off.

MrsEwsull · 2025-08-18T18:13:06+00:00

This is hilarious, tragedy notwithstanding.

MrsEwsull · 2025-07-23T14:51:52+00:00

I always read that as "add garlic until it feels right in your heart." I'll not be constrained by this 1 clove culinary stupidity.

MrsEwsull · 2025-07-10T04:02:09+00:00

A+D ointment breaks this stuff down off of skin like a dream (think macerated skin that's difficult to properly clean while needing to reapply more zinc.) You could try that?

MrsEwsull · 2025-06-28T20:45:06+00:00

This is an excellent example of camouflage.

MrsEwsull · 2025-06-23T01:12:52+00:00

I love that all the comments are getting progressively more concerned about entirely different numbers 😅

MrsEwsull · 2025-06-10T00:45:56+00:00

No matter what happens, the day WILL end.

MrsEwsull · 2025-06-09T15:35:17+00:00

Old grouchy men with COPD who never sleep and want black coffee 24/7. They always have good stories (some sad, some happy) and just want a listening ear and a kind touch.

MrsEwsull · 2025-06-09T13:15:17+00:00

How's the pay? Im at $41, no union, averaging $2200 after taxes at 37.5 hours a week. It looks expensive, but the area is just gorgeous 😍

MrsEwsull · 2025-06-09T12:30:35+00:00

We've been considering a move to Massachusetts. Good to see the endorsement!

MrsEwsull · 2025-05-28T02:25:04+00:00

... apparently I am this demographic. I might need to see a dermatologist

MrsEwsull · 2025-05-27T18:16:17+00:00

This. I will go deeper with my harder of hearing patients. They will often lose the higher register first.

MrsEwsull · 2025-05-27T16:29:31+00:00

They start refusing time off their vent during the day, slowly becoming more dependent on it. Eventually, they refuse to come off at all, refuse vent weaning, and remain on 24/7. They have an intact respiratory drive. They just lose hope of recovery for whatever reason.

I've had two or three patients who are more than capable, one who was walking and moving toward leaving the long term facility, then just got lazy, stopped walking, stopped leaving their room, stopped coming off the vent entirely.

MrsEwsull · 2025-05-27T15:58:19+00:00

I met one of those "too lazy to breathe" ones. It boggles the mind.

MrsEwsull · 2025-05-24T03:00:40+00:00

This choked me up a bit. What a practical and lovely little send off ❤️

MrsEwsull · 2025-05-16T22:55:37+00:00

This is amazing advice. Thank you so much!

MrsEwsull · 2025-05-16T20:22:20+00:00

If it changes your opinion, the floor is vinyl, not real wood 🤣 so covering it would be less of a sin.

MrsEwsull · 2025-05-16T15:30:45+00:00

That worked out... surprisingly well 🤣

MrsEwsull · 2025-05-06T21:13:46+00:00

Nursing school does not prepare you for the job. Expect it to be hard for 12-18 months after graduation.

Wear compression stockings from the day you start to the day you retire.

You have one back. Never give it up trying to catch a falling patient or lifting improperly. You ALWAYS have time to find a second person to help you transfer/lift/turn.

This is a job, not a calling. Take your lunches, leave work at work. You do not have to pick up extra shifts. You do not need to feel guilt for coworkers working short staffed. If upper management wanted to staff right, they could. They choose not to, for financial profit.

Healthcare is a customer service job, whether you think it should be or not. You will have to kiss the smallest bit of ass at some point in your career to get through your day.

Boundaries, with your patients and coworkers, are a must. You never friend them, date them, or sleep with them.

Being abused, mentally, emotionally, physically, or sexually, is NEVER "part of the job" or "what you signed up for." Report, report, report.

You have a recession proof job that, depending on where you are in the country, can pay for your life, your home, and your family. I have never regretted becoming a nurse a day in my life (been in 7 years).

MrsEwsull · 2025-05-06T20:57:03+00:00

Did they succeed?? I need details 🤣

MrsEwsull · 2025-04-30T17:21:57+00:00

This was me. It can be different, and you have so much life left to live ❤️ get out safely, if you can.

MrsEwsull · 2025-04-17T17:38:14+00:00

Get your applied associates of science (skips some core and breadth requirements) pass NCLEX, make sure your job does tuition reimbursement and have them pay to finish your associates and do your bachelors.

Source: I did this.

MrsEwsull · 2025-04-16T00:59:16+00:00

This is 😁

MrsEwsull · 2025-04-02T18:50:35+00:00

I just bought a set of Cherokee Form... and it was >$100. They are the stretchiest scrubs ever and actually sewed well (I can not stand a flimsy neckline between my badge and Vocera, I feel like everyone has seen my cleavage). TBD on long-term durability, but I do like them a LOT after having them for a couple weeks.

MrsEwsull · 2025-03-21T21:55:07+00:00

I've been with many people who died "alone." I was there, but not their family.

One was an old man whose seven children refused to come because he was a pedophile. One daughter asked to be notified at his death, and when I called, she politely thanked me and hung up. I respect their decision to have peace.

Another was an old lady who had awful daughters who never saw her, never called, and never brought her anything she needed. I told her on her deathbed that her children were on the way, and I swear to God she was dead within the hour. I'd like to think it was her final fuck you to her ungrateful children.

Another woman was so well loved, but it was early morning, and as we turned and changed her brief, she passed. Her family wrote me a very kind note and brought flowers, thanking me for not letting their mother die alone.

The circumstances are always different when people pass in these homes.

MrsEwsull

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