is this week. (8th-14th)

If you know one give them a handshake or a hug and a "thank you".

They are the NCO's of health care.

Ruthie and the other staff nurses received gourmet gift boxes.

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Mom was a nurse for the first several years of my life and then transferred over to doing medical transcription. With her dementia I have not heard her talk of it in quite some time. Do not know if she even remembers. I will tell her it is Nurses Week and give her a hug, see if she does remember.

They are probably one of the most underappreciated professionals there is. The work they do is a calling and it takes a special person to do their job. The nurses that both my wife and I have encountered over the last few years have been top notch.

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Why duck?? It's a 9mm!

My aunt who lives 4 blocks from me was a nurse by profession. She is enshrined in a local sports hall of fame for establishing the athletic trainer program for the county schools.

Back in 1997 I was at my office and started having some serious chest pains. I had one of the staff call this aunt and my uncle to tell them I was being taken to the emergency room. They beat the ambulance to the hospital. It was very comforting to have her in my corner when I was at the emergency room.

On of the guy I hang with was a Combat Corpman in Desert Storm and is a retired RN. Cool guy to have around!

My Son-In-Law is a volunteer EMT for 20 years and a Nurse Practitioner, and runs the RN staff for their practice. Also a cool guy to have around in a crisis.

For 40+ years I had apartment complexes and saw how nurses live off duty. Like all people some good some bad, but when there was a crisis (like when a transit bus got hit so hard it split open) They all ran toward the troubles!

Ivan

In the last twenty years I have interacted with many, many nurses. I am very fortunate to have never encountered a Nurse Ratched or a Nurse Diesel.

At the top of my respect list are Hospice nurses. It takes a special heart to carry out that calling.

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I interacted with several back in college at the Nursing dorm at an unnamed local hospital. The Canadians were the most adventerous

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"Stick out your tongue and say "eh".

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Doc got the degree, the nurses do the heavy lifting.
I admire them, have friends and family in the profession, had one as a neighbor for a while, really miss her.
Chatted a bit with one yesterday while tagged for jury duty. Her and I were among the few excused, pretty much because we actually spoke up when spoken to.
All our best to the wise and wonderful Ruth.

How I am the first to post this, ill never know.

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From FB a few minutes ago.

That's my girl.

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I'm passing that on to my neighbour up the street, who is an Emerg. Nurse at the local hospital. It's National Nursing Week up here as well.

As to hospice nurses, "Amen" to that. My gf's 94 y.o. mother is hopefully still a few years away from hospice - in fact still living on her own - but it will come. (At the moment we're looking at Assisted Living facilities for a possible move late this summer.)

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"I drank WHAT?" (Socrates)

Nurses rule!!!!!!

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My beautiful and brilliant granddaughter, who could have had her choice of any top college, chose nursing school instead, and gets her RN license this week. We couldn't be prouder!

I'd rather get a couple of six-packs of Founders Porter beer and several days off to drink it.

I was a Registered Nurse for 37 years; about 85% of that was as a Surgical Nurse in the Operating Room, specializing in Neurosurgery and Orthopedics. I spent 8 years as a USAF Flight Nurse, and have experience in ICU and ER care.

I've been retired now for almost 4 years; I miss the fine people I once worked with, but I don't miss the job at all. Nursing has made a radical change since I graduated from Nursing School in 1983. It has gone from being hands-on care by the Nurse to the delegation of tasks to other personnel and supervising them, while the Nurse deals with the computer based and driven medical records and charting systems that mainly exist to satisfy the regulatory agencies that determine the "quality" of the care given. Sorry if I sound jaded, but the direction of Nursing diverged from the reasons I decided to practice as one, and I managed to stay long enough to retire.

I admire those who remain in Nursing and their determination to work in an increasingly difficult profession in an environment that taxes human stamina and with an administrative philosophy that doesn't properly value their efforts.

My ex is a Psychiatric ICU RN. Not enough money in the world to get me to do that job.

Happy nurses week to Ruthie. I had the honor of preparing smoked pork and smoked chicken for the staff at the home care agency where my wife is a nurse/manager. I was glad to do it and it was well received.


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That must have been Jessica Rabbit's mother!

My late father took a sudden turn for the worse the week before he died. Pop wasn't in hospice but was in the hospital for the last week of his life. I was allowed to stay in his room with him for the whole time I was up to see him. On the night shift toward the end of the week he was feeling like he was dying. One of the night shift nurses came in to the room, held Pop's hand for quite a while and told him he wasn't going to die. She pulled him through that night and we had Pop with us for another 3 days.

Eight years ago a friend's wife was retiring from a long nursing career. At her retirement party, I prefaced my little tribute this way....

I LOVE nurses ! I worked with nurses every working day for 14 years. I married a nurse. I married a woman who would BECOME a nurse. I married a woman who ...... NEEDED a nurse !

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My mother graduated nursing school as an RN in 1959. She retired in the mid '90s. She may not have loved every bit of it but she always loved caring for her patients. Even when she was 58 and doing 12 hour shifts.
Her children, on the other hand, had better be able to do their own first aid. If it wasn't an arterial bleed she didn't bestir herself much.
"Is the blood spurting? No? Then put pressure on it 'til it stops bleeding. And you had better not use my good white towels!"
I miss her every day.

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I think some people underestimate how much learning nurses have to do. They to have degrees and all the expenses that come with it. My wife has worked as a nurse in everything from ER to Critical care. She worked an intensive care nurse through Covid and somehow never got sick. Tomorrow she graduates with her masters degree as a Nurse Practitioner.

It is difficult for the average person to understand the anatomy & physiology knowledge a Nurse possess; not to mention the technology knowledge and management of that technology.

This photo is my office in 2012 and remained mostly the same with some additional things to manage until my retirement in 2019.

My first office and the beginning of my career in 1969 look similar but not as much complex equipment. My entire career was in Critical Care.

I was 72 when I retired; there was 1 Nurse in the Med/Surg Unit and 1 Nurse in the Tele Unit who were also in their 70's.

We loved Nurse's Week and the Holidays, the Doctors always brought lots of goodies, quality goodies, for us to snack on.

One heart surgeon, who was retiring catered meals for 3 shifts for a Wed, Fri, & Sat so he would catch all the staff members: Regular staff worked 12 hour shifts but we had some part time staff who worked 8 hr shifts. My unit had 72 Nurses.

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Just a late shout out to all of you health care pros, who put on line daily to take care of the restof us

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Always Stay Strong!

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I am pretty sure he did.

I had a bypass in November (7 days in patient) and a GI bleed in December (9 days in patient). The care from all roles was excellent and that nurses did some pretty rough work; when I was my weakest (the first 5 days or so of the December stint), they had to essentially care for a 6'1" 210 pound toddler. I don't envy them.

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Thank you very much.

I had a 4x coronary artery bypass last September, was on the critical list 5 days and in the hospital 19 days. I received wonderful care from the nurses during that time, and in particular the nurse who was there almost every day on the night shift.
Nights were tough for me; sometimes I was reluctant to go to sleep for fear of maybe not waking up, or at least soiling the bed. Like DougM said, I was a 254 lb toddler who was scared, scarred, dirty, disheveled, unshaven, smelly, leaking blood and urine, too weak to get out of bed without help and pretty much alone most of the day.
In the middle of the night, when I was most alone and in need of help, she was there multiple times, whenever I hit the call button, or just checking on me, bringing me water, adjusting the bed, straightening my tangled covers, changing a bandage, moving me to a more comfortable position in the bed when I could not do it myself, helping me get in and out of the bed while being ever watchful that I did not injure the wound in my chest, all the while reassuring me I was going to be OK, and don't be shy about asking for help.
When I was finally discharged, I left her a thank you note commending her exemplary service, with a copy to the hospital administrator and enclosed a gift certificate to her favorite restaurant. I get a little tearful thinking about how kind she was to me. I don't think my own mother could have done better.

Happy Nurses Week to Ruthie and all the Nurses across this country. Without Nurses we would be in a heck of a shape. Top notch profession.
Hooray for the Nurses.

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On the Llano Estacado

Retired from the Corps and went back to college. Was interested in medicine and was to old to become an MD. Got a degree as a Nurse. Worked with Medical/Surgical and Orthopedic patients for 20 years. Retired from that now.

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My oldest sister and her husband are retired nurses. She was mainly in ICU and some of the stuff she's told me you couldn't pay me enough to do. Definitely special people. My wife's sister & cousin have made careers in nursing, also. Very special people for sure. I knew a couple guys who were medics in Nam when I worked in the steel mill. Neither could talk about their experiences. Very special people.

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