6-word descriptions of nursing careers

Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in six words. He responded with “For sale: baby shoes. Never worn.”

Today, there are six-word stories about love affairs, lifetimes, tragedies: Name it and there’s a short, to-the-point description of it.

The fine folks here at Scrubs challenged me to come up with a title for my nursing memoir. I figured we could all do one better, with six-word descriptions of our nursing careers. I’ll get us started:

• Never be first to a code.
• Started out in music; no talent.
• Year one: proud. Year 10: prouder.
• Never gets easier to lose one.
• Computer charting chaps my widening butt.
• Joint Commission inspections are still scary.
• Bed’s broken? No problem; I’m MacGyver.
• Open that drain away from you.
• Aching feet cured by patient’s compliment.
• Ten years on, still learning stuff.

What are yours? Please be brief.