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10 things only nurses understand

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How do you KNOW you’re a nurse? Well, there are some things only nurses can understand…and these are 10 of them!

10 things only nurses understand

10. That feeling of getting a patient totally cleaned up and neat in the bed, only to have a flood of liquid stool overcome the chuck pads.

9. How useful Vick’s VapoRub can be. Put it in a mask to kill bad smells! Rub it on sore feet for pain relief! Use it as a sandwich spread when you’re really desperate!

8. What a rarity it is to give report to the same person on the same patients three days in a row.

7. How often nurses make the decisions that doctors don’t think about or are too afraid to make.

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Agatha Lellis
Agatha Lellis is a nurse whose coffee is brought to her every morning by a chipmunk. Bluebirds help her to dress, and small woodland creatures sing her to sleep each night. She writes a monthly advice column, "Ask Aunt Agatha," here on Scrubs; you can send her questions to be answered at askauntieaggie@gmail.com.

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