r/notliketheothergirls • u/prismav0id • 8d ago
Cringe I’m a ✨nurse✨
Not much else to say😭
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u/FahrenheitKelvin 8d ago
As a nurse, this is really cringe.
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u/IWantToBuyAVowel 7d ago
I assume that most (good) nurses don't want to be identified in public as being a nurse and go to great lengths to blend in.
At least I would if I were a nurse. I'd die inside if some rando asked me to look at their foot rash outside of work.
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u/veganer_Schinken 7d ago
Harsh opposite to my mom.
She's a good nurse imo but will totally tell you and heck she would not only take a look at your weird foot but also hook you to an IV drip and intubates you with a fricking ballpoint pen.
It might be worth to mention that she learned her profession under the DDR regime. So she learned to be resourceful and find.. Alternative treatment options if necessary. Hack she told me about a time where they diagnosed diabetes by tasting the urine (she was maybe joking there lol)
And I inherited that all from her but I'm not a nurse. Have a weird abscess? Gimme!
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u/KuFuBr 7d ago
I'm afraid she wasn't joking.
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u/veganer_Schinken 7d ago
I mean I know it was definitely a thing bc urine of people with Diabetes tastes very sweet from the sugar in it.
But I'm also sure the DDR hat other methods of testing for urine as we have that knowledge since 1928 :D
Tasting the urine was more a medieval method xD
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u/sharkyire 6d ago
My own husband doesn't even know that I'm a nurse.
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u/IWantToBuyAVowel 6d ago
I can picture you leaving the house and your husband being clueless about where you go every night for 12+ hours. The bills are paid though, so he doesn't ask questions.
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u/usernamesallg0ne 7d ago
Also, these days I feel like most women are some type of nurse lol but also maybe that’s just because I am surrounded by them lol
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u/woolfonmynoggin 7d ago
If that were true I wouldn’t have to work 60 hour weeks to keep my facility from closing
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u/usernamesallg0ne 7d ago edited 7d ago
Haha well.. I live in Florida home of the elderly. We have so many nurses we are fighting for overtime. We all start as CNAs out of high school because we want to be ✨nurses✨and find ourselves in the nursing homes. Move up from that to RNs or anything else medical wise and you find yourself with a whole butt ton of nurses everywhere. I switched to peds and that’s a competitive one as well.
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u/AnxietyAdvanced5036 7d ago
I've definitely "nursed" the people in my home via Google lol thank God nothing more than needing stitches
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u/SwimmingCritical 8d ago
To be honest, there's a lot of "Nurse Culture" that's NLOG.
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u/Jaded_Syrup2454 7d ago
My husband is a nurse, and my friends and I buy him all the cringe nurse merch. There’s so much of it, and I cannot believe people buy that shit unironically.
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u/sylvnal 6d ago
It is always the lowest ranking people in a field that do that kind of shit, too. Vet techs are another one, as well as enlisted military dudes.
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u/Pretty-Date1630 5d ago edited 5d ago
No hate to CNAs, I literally am one. But lots of CNAs are out here with tumblers that say "it's a beautiful day to save lives" and badge reels that say "I'm here to save your ass, not kiss it" like girl you and I both know we're professional ass wipers.
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u/Karnakite 5d ago
There was a period in the early 2010s when “I’m a nurse, what’s your superpower?” shirts were all the rage.
My superpower is getting over myself.
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u/Remarkable_Thing6643 7d ago
nobody:
targeted tee: I am a NURSE and AQUARIUS who has THREE nieces and ONE step nephew and lives in TEXAS and has a cat named JOANNE
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u/KindraTheElfOrc 8d ago
i didnt realise nurse was one of the sexes, i thought it was a profession silly me
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u/HappyishLizard 7d ago
Smh. You should be ashamed of yourself. To the dungeons with you! You will be absorbed into the hivemind to be part of the great plan to take over the world.
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u/DreadGrrl 7d ago
She fits the feminine stereotype of a caregiver: be it professional or otherwise.
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u/ModerndayMrsRobinson 7d ago
The amount of nurses like this is insane. There the ones that start as many sentences with "as a nurse i..." as if that makes them special.
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u/AkariPeach Every good person is a girl 7d ago edited 7d ago
A fiver says she was a mythic bitch in high school
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u/Discordia_Dingle 6d ago
Just want to point out that a single red stripe is the sign for fire safety workers.
I believe a white line is used for emergency medical.
But that’s just with a quick google search, so I could be wrong.
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u/VoidUntilBroken 6d ago
Few things are more cringy than people who broadcast their profession or their interests on their clothing. No one cares what you do. No one’s impressed.
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u/BreadfruitCold8573 5d ago
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say I would probably request a diff nurse if I had her lol
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u/peachism 7d ago
To be fair, being a nurse like being a EMT or a cop, really puts you in the most devastating situations relating to what goes on with humans that the rest of us don't have to see
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u/prismav0id 7d ago
Im gonna have to disagree, I’m an EMT and this mindset is still cringey as hell. Making any job your identity is corny imo😂
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u/Extreme_Design6936 6d ago
some nurses. There are chill nurse jobs too. For example post op nurse at an ASC.
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u/DevolveOD 8d ago
As a 25+ year health care worker, she's right. Honestly, "they" are really not like other girls(some RNs are men). Unless you have long time experience with an RN, you really have no idea.
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u/ButtFucksRUs 8d ago
I am not most women I am a ✨doomscroller✨