Nurse Nancy

Today is the day.

Nurse Nancy returns to the hospital.

There is much anticipation....whether it be what is going to transpire at home or at work.....it will be good to get it over with! I searched high and low for this poem today. This was written by a high school classmate's Dad during my first year of nursing school. There are many "inside" jokes tucked in his writing, but it has brought me much motivation and giggles in the past eight years.

Enjoy.

The biceps she builds

Baling hay in the spring

Will come in quite handy

When patients she slings

From gurney to bedpan

To wheelchair and such

The doctors will gasp

But they still ain't seen much

When she pins on her name tag

And starts making her calls

The whispers will resonate

Down through the halls

Nurse Nancy they'll say

From their bedpans and chairs

Is the one we want

For our medical cares

Pill and injections

She will dispense with ease

She can cure everything

From the flu to a sneeze

The charts will be kept

Updated and clear

With the number three pencil

She keeps behind her ear.

Of course, not all days will go smoothly

And the tough ones you'll tell

Cause that is when she lets loose

With her goat callers yell!

A shriek that's so shrill

It will travel the wards

And shatter the sutures

Of ladies and lords

It will shrivel the navels

Of newly born kids

The kind born without wool

And who sleep under lids

She says it takes off the pressure

And relieves the stress

From working all day

In that hospital mess

And speaking of kids

You may thinks it's a yarn

But I've heard she keeps hers

Outside in the barn!

Now the things I have said

May or may not be true

But when I need a nurse

I'm still going to call on you!

Denny Hammer

January 2001