A Graduate Nurse throws up when the patient does.
An Experienced Nurse calls housekeeping.

A Graduate Nurse wears so many pins on their name badge you can’t read it.
An Experienced Nurse doesn’t wear a name badge for liability reasons.

A Graduate Nurse charts too much.
An Experienced Nurse doesn’t chart enough.

A Graduate Nurse loves to run to codes.
An Experienced Nurse makes a Graduate Nurse run to codes.

A Graduate Nurse wants everyone to know they are nurses.
An Experienced Nurse doesn’t want anyone to know they are a nurse.

A Graduate Nurse keeps detailed notes on a pad.
An Experienced Nurse writes on the back of their hand, paper scraps, napkins, etc.

A Graduate Nurse will spend all day trying to reorient a patient.
An Experienced Nurse will chart the patient is disoriented and restrain them.

A Graduate Nurse can hear a beeping I-med at 50 yards.
An Experienced Nurse can’t hear any alarms at any distance.

A Graduate Nurse loves to hear abnormal heart and breath sounds.
An Experienced Nurse doesn’t want to know about them unless the patient is symptomatic.

A Graduate Nurse spends 2 hours giving a patient a bath.
An Experienced Nurse lets the CNA give the patient a bath.

A Graduate Nurse thinks people respect nurses.
An Experienced Nurse knows everybody blames everything on the nurse.

A Graduate Nurse looks for blood on a bandage hoping they will get to change it.
An Experienced Nurse knows a little blood never hurt anybody.

A Graduate Nurse looks for a chance to ‘work with the family’.
An Experienced Nurse avoids the family.

A Graduate Nurse expects meds and supplies to be delivered on time.
An Experienced Nurse expects them never be delivered at all.

A Graduate Nurse will spend days bladder training an incontinent patient.
An Experienced Nurse will insert a Foley catheter.

A Graduate Nurse always answers the phone.
An Experienced Nurse checks the Caller I.D. before answering the phone.

A Graduate Nurse thinks psych patients are interesting.
An Experienced Nurse thinks psych patients are crazy.

A Graduate Nurse carries reference books in their bag.
An Experienced Nurse carries magazines, lunch, and some ‘cough syrup" in their bag.

A Graduate Nurse doesn’t find this funny.
An Experienced Nurse does.