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If you’re nodding and sighing at these words, you’re definitely an Ortho nurse!
Top 10 ways you know you’re an Ortho nurse…
10. You know the difference between a fracture and a break.
9. You want to X-ray everyone, for anything…all the time.
8. You think the heart is simply there to pump the Kefzol prior to an ortho surgery.
7. You have said “It’s JUST a fracture” hundreds of times.
6. The first time you used a power tool was in the OR.
5. You don’t think the phrase “You screwed a patient” is funny anymore.
4. Anytime something falls in the OR you want to fake a seizure and pee yourself.
3. You have your own X-ray lead with your name embroidered on it.
2. You can tell who put a cast on just by looking at it.
1. You don’t think there is any other field of nursing.
This list is by nurses of Orthopedic Associates.
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