Difference between a graduate nurse & an experienced nurse

[GitanoRN]

The DON where I work send this to me via e-mail, wanted to share...
Differences...
A Graduate Nurse throws up when the patient does.
An experienced nurse calls housekeeping when a patient throws up

A Graduate Nurse wears so many pins on their name badge you can't read it.
An experienced nurse doesn't wear a name badge for liability reasons
A Graduate Nurse charts too much.
An experienced nurse doesn't chart enough.
A Graduate Nurse loves to run to codes.
An experienced nurse makes graduate nurses run to codes.
A Graduate Nurse wants everyone to know they are a nurse.
An experienced nurse doesn't want anyone to know they are a nurse.
A Graduate Nurse keeps detailed notes on a pad.
An experienced nurse writes on the back of their hand, paper scraps, napkins, etc.
A Graduate Nurse will spend all day trying to reorient a patient.
An experienced nurse will chart the patient is disoriented and restrain them.
A Graduate Nurse can hear a beeping I-med at 50 yards.
An experienced nurse can't hear any alarms at any distance.
A Graduate Nurse loves to hear abnormal heart and breath sounds.
An experienced nurse doesn't want to know about them unless the patient is symptomatic.
A Graduate Nurse spends 2 hours giving a patient a bath.
An experienced nurse lets the CNA give the patient a bath.
A Graduate Nurse thinks people respect Nurses.
An experienced nurse knows everybody blames everything on the nurse.
A Graduate Nurse looks for blood on a bandage hoping they will get to change it.
An experienced nurse knows a little blood never hurt anybody.
A Graduate Nurse looks for a chance "to work with the family."
An experienced nurse avoids the family.
A Graduate Nurse expects meds and supplies to be delivered on time.
An experienced nurse expects them to never be delivered at all.
A Graduate Nurse will spend days bladder training an incontinent patient.
An experienced nurse will insert a Foley catheter.
A Graduate Nurse always answers their phone.
An experienced nurse checks their caller ID before answering the phone.
A Graduate Nurse thinks psych patients are interesting.
An experienced nurse thinks psych patients are crazy.
A Graduate Nurse carries reference books in their bag.
An experienced nurse carries magazines, lunch, and some "cough syrup" in their bag.
A Graduate Nurse doesn't find this funny.
An experienced nurse does.

Life tips.

[ZuziRN]

A new grad (NG) dreams to change EVERYTHINK and the world, an experienced nurse (EN) knows that will be not change ANYTHING, EVER.
A NG belives and lives for "I am smart I could do and be the best" an EN knows "I am smart andit will not help to be the best, so is time to move on"
A NG wants to be a team, and EN knows that a real team is an uthopy.
A NG belives that was choosed for him/her potential qualities, an EN knows that is NOT because of it.
A NG came in nursing for money and power or by passion and EN knows that at one point any of them will not count at all.

[NURSEDETROIT]

Have read this a couple of times now. . . STILL LOL! True, so true. . . ; )

[adamsusan]

Thanks for sharing the difference between a graduate nurse & an experienced nurse.

[hairremoval2]

i read the difference and found it to be pretty amusing. an experienced person often finds many short-cuts and more efficient routes to performing the same task as the other new-comers are doing.anyways, one should stick to basic rules of the profession u r in. for example if an experienced nurse starts neglecting the basic ethics of the hospital then this is not at all acceptable.

take care!