Nurses are often commended for having ‘the patience of a saint’, for our bottomless supply of kindness and willingness to work all the hours under the sun… of course, it’s never quite as simple as it seems.
Nurses are human too, and just like everyone else, little things we hear every day can get under our skin. When we hear them a few too many times, it starts to itch…
So, just what should you never say to a nurse?
1. ‘So why didn’t you become a doctor?’
Never say this to us. Never. Whether you’re trying to imply that we’re smart enough to make it through medical school, or the opposite… it doesn’t matter.
Nursing and medicine are two completely different jobs and trust us, we wouldn’t be nurses if we didn’t want to… Read the full story