Hey there patient stay in bed
I don’t want you falling and hitting your head.
Then a bleed might ensue
and your family would be sure to sue.
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A growing collection of funny or emotional poems that I write about my daily nursing experiences. Read, chuckle, relate, enjoy! 
Author: Pete RN
Difficult to Please Family, Really?
I am so frustrated that you are unhappy
Your family member could die and all you care about are things stupid and crappie.
I talk to doctors, push IV meds, take their vitals umpteen times
And all you do is point out the dirt on the floor as if it were a crime
Well I am so sad to report that while saving their life
My skills as a housekeeper were slightly under strife
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Satisfaction Driven Healthcare Fail
Dear patient family,
It’s one thing to ask for ice
But seriously asking for that much is just not nice.
I am nurse not a butler please take your request elsewhere,
Oh wait, I forgot, all our pay is based on satisfaction in healthcare.
With slightly jaded love,
Your extremely-busy-saving-your-family-member-from-near-death-and-you-are-unhappy-with-the-room-temperature Nurse
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Bees Knees SCDs
Be sure to apply SCDs with great vigor
And then explain their benefits to patients with real rigor
Tell about their pumping power and gripping squeeze
And how by wearing them they are the bees knees!
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SCD’s stop Cemeteries
Dear Doctor I know you’re smart,
But please order SCD’s and do your part.
They stop blood pooling and forming clots
And keep our patients out of cemetery plots.
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Hold Your IV
That IV you say, no way to keep it?
I will make sure that you do I commit.
That Doc ordered it, it has to stay
I feel unfortunately that your opinion will not sway.
So I wrap and wrap and wrap away,
That Kerlex will unlikely hold you at bay.
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Urine Dread
Please, oh please don’t wet the bed
It’s such a pain, one all nurses dread
Use the bedpan or a urinal
Simply peeing the bed is just criminal
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C. Diff Strikes Again
OOhhhh darn C Diff you’ve infected another!
I am only so glad it wasn’t my mother.
Stay away! Be gone! As the sun before rain.
In all of our bowels you’re such a huge pain
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Slow Discharge
Discharge is not ready,
Yes I know the Doc said you are free already!
However, I have paperwork to do for you
So please hold up and I will soon be through
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Don’t Touch that IV!
Oh fine patient what a pleasure it was
To wrap your IV with three rolls of gauze.
Don’t pull it or touch it or even looks its way
That IV you have needs to stay!
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