Oh, the questions nurses get used to hearing!
Talk about a travel assignment: Visiting Bruno Mars in his dressing room to check up on his sore throat. Sounds like a dream assignment, actually. But for one nurse who found herself in this spot recently, she got more then she bargained for when Mars appeared to be a little cuckoo and asked her all kinds of strange questions. Among the strange questions, he asked her to take off her shoes and also why the Pringles can was shaped the way it is! You can check out the video below.
Luckily for this particular nurse, the whole thing turned out to be a prank put on by Bruno Mars and Ellen DeGeneres. But how many crazy questions do you routinely hear on the job that don’t actually turn out to be pranks? Oh, the questions nurses get used to hearing!
Mighty Nurse published a great blog this week called 10 Questions All Nurses Have Learned to Answer.
Some of the questions included:
“So, are you going on to become a doctor?”
“My light has been on for hours! Where have you BEEN?!”
“What’s with the long wait times around here?”
“Have you done this before?”
“Hey, could I call you after I leave here?”
“What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever had happen to you here?”
Also, I’d like to share that when I was visiting the Mighty Nurse site I noticed that they had a poll called “How is the staffing at your facility?” At the time I viewed the results, 86% said “understaffed,” 2% said “overstaffed,” and 12% said “correctly staffed.” These results just go to show there is a massive and ever-growing need for travel nurses!
So, back to questions … What questions do you hear all time? And what’s the weirdest thing a patient has ever asked you? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
One thing’s for sure: As traveling nurses, you definitely get to sample different kinds of patients from all across the U.S.
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