Funny Nurse Hats

Every nurse knows the rule, and every new grad learns it the hard way: never say the shift is quiet. Say it out loud and the ambulances start arriving within the hour. Nurses call it the Q word, and nobody on the unit says it twice. These funny nurse hats are for the people working the twelves. The nurse who will stop anyone, anywhere, from saying it is quiet. The nurse whose last bathroom break was, as far as they can remember, sometime on Tuesday — because the break on a twelve-hour shift is on the schedule and routinely missed. And the nurse at every family barbecue who has already been asked to look at a rash, a knee and a photo on someone's phone, and has one answer ready. The joke is always on the nurse, never the patient. They make good nurse gifts for Nurses Week, graduation or the end of a hard stretch of nights, and they are embroidered, unstructured dad hats for the days off: errands, the park, and the first coffee after a run of shifts.