I'm a male nurse and sometimes (for a healthy vent) i imagine situations replayed from my shifts as the terminator.

When my alarm goes off at 0400 in the morning.

Finally ready for work.

Remembering graduating from nursing school.

When i got the poo on my glove.

That look my cna gives me when its time to bust out the crash cart. (Sorry not sorry. We got into this field to save lives like we saw on tv when we where young. Nothing beats the rush of reviving a dying patient)

When Physical therapy is getting upset because I can't drop everything I'm doing (due to higher acuity) just to listen to them tell me someone farted or sneezed.

When the non compliant copd patient on 4L nc who refuses to use their room oxygen concentrator even when in their room and who still smokes asks for the 10th oxygen tank 3 hours into shift.

Time to toilet the ones taking diuretics again.

When your fall risk patient keeps playing with their pressure or pull tab alarm every 20 seconds.

When another co-worker says, "you're an insensitive ass hole sometimes you know that?"

When im doing 12 treatments, passing meds, getting yelled at by patients because I'm taking care of 20 people and I'm only one man and they wanted their pain pill 30 mins early, physical therapy getting mad because i dont have time to have a friendly conversation with them about rainbows and unicorns of therapy land, 4 patient family members asking dumb ass questions like "where's mcdonalds from here and can my diabetic mother have a super sized milk shake", and then the office comes over with 2 admissions.

When the boss thinks it's slow and is on the lookout for admissions.

The train wreck admit i get at end of shift from another hospital who didn't call and give report and lied about the patient's condition on the transfer paperwork and to the admissions office.

Drowning in paperwork (prob 3 hours worth) at the end of my shift.

Getting out of work and cracking a cold one with the boys.

Fat cat tax.