This is less about nurses then it is about communication. Specifically, small talk, chit chat, jibber jabber. The kind of, ‘how’s the weather’ conversations you have with a new stylist, the dentist, etc.
While delivering my son I got to know a variety of different nurses. Their species isn’t unfamiliar to me, I spent some time in hospitals in 2001 when I was (after a month of biopsies) diagnosed with cancer but that’s a whole other story. In any case, nurses, I’ve dealt with their kind bunches.
So on this visit I found it funny that the three that most stood out could be classified simply as the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.  read more »

If you’ve given birth in a hospital you know one thing to be true of doctors and nurses during labor - the nurses are the unsung heroes! A good nurse or a bad nurse can completely change a woman’s scenario. Doctors are like the rock stars, the headlining act that only shows up for the last half of the show but the nurses are there through out, assisting you, making you feel as comfortable as possible and in the end if they had to deliver a baby they totally could. They usually don’t get that glory, the doctor comes in, scoops up the newborn in a catcher’s mitt and rides off on the shoulders of the hospital staff while the nurse hangs back and shows new parents how to give a baby a bath, change it’s diapers, nurse and burp the baby, etc.  read more »