My first job started when I was 16 years old and I was a nurse’s aide at a small country hospital. We only had about 30 beds and I would work shifts that only had maybe three nurses and a few more nurse’s aides. There was never a doctor on-site except in the morning when they would come in to do their rounds or for emergencies. Let me tell you, I got an education from these nurses. Some of them were older and had been nursing for decades, from way back in the day. These ladies were women of steel and there was very little they had not seen or heard in their long careers. The training I got on that job has carried me through a lifetime of work and gave me a solid work ethic. The guy in the joke below learned exactly what nurses are made of. Enjoy!
A bigshot business man had to spend a couple of days in the hospital. He was a royal pain to the nurses because he bossed them around just like he did his employees. None of the hospital staff wanted to have anything to do with him. The head nurse was the only one who could stand up to him.
She came into his room and announced, “I have to take your temperature.”
After complaining for several minutes, he finally settled down, crossed his arms and opened his mouth. “No, I’m sorry,” the nurse stated, “but for this reading, I can’t use an oral thermometer.”
This started another round of complaining, but eventually he rolled over and bared his behind.
After feeling the nurse insert the thermometer, he heard her announce, “I have to get something. Now you stay JUST LIKE THAT until I get back!”
She left the door to his room open on her way out. He curses under his breath as he hears people walking past his door, laughing.
After a half hour, the man’s doctor comes into the room.
“What’s going on here?” asked the doctor.
Angrily, the man answers, “What’s the matter, Doc? Haven’t you ever seen someone having their temperature taken?”
After a pause, the doctor confesses, “Not with a carnation.”
