Who's Nancy Nurse ??
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 "Nancy Nurse" is bold, outspoken, and in control of both patients and doctors.
"Nancy Nurse" is a wild, red-headed clown, armed with a combat belt of weapons; such as, bedpans, urinals, enema buckets, and over-sized syringes used to fight disease.. Her stethoscope is made from a garden hose and a toilet plunger which is great to use on those big-hearted patients... it can also be used to relieve constipation!
"Nancy Nurse" helps nurses look at their problems and solve them with clown logic. If your patient is annoying you by constantly putting on their call light, you have several choices to remove this irritation.
 One, you can ignore it, but usually the light above the door continues to flash and the bell at the nursing station keeps ringing, announcing to everyone that you are a negligent, uncaring nurse -- not a good idea if you want to get promoted.
Second solution: you render the patient unconscious with drugs or a physical therapy intervention (therapy for the nurse). But we know nurses can't give drugs without a physician's order and you'll never find a doc to write one for the amount of sedation you really want to give the patient, and the physical intervention is another nix because of that pesky little assault and battery law.
 So, the only choice you really have is number three. Go in the patient's room and ever so gently and quietly remove the call light from the bedside rail and place it under the mattress. Then act completely surprised if anyone ever finds out!
Nurses love her outrageous solutions to common problems!
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Can a Clown be TOO Bold?Through "Nancy Nurse", caregivers learn to laugh at themselves and gain some distance from the serious and tragic aspects of the profession. "Nancy Nurse" performs a stage show primarily for audiences of health professionals. But over the years, she began to speak to patient support groups after the workshops with nurses.
Sometimes "Nancy Nurse" was asked to make "clown rounds" at hospitals and entertain patients. I learned that the character of "Nancy Nurse" was not as funny to patients, and that some were actually frightened by her presence. "Nancy Nurse" was too big, bold, and boisterous for the delicate art of bedside clowning. I needed another clown for patients and their families -- a clown that was gentle, kind, and concerned for the patient and their vulnerable situation. This led to my creation of "Nurse Kindheart" and another clown birth.
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