# I passed State Boards!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 6, 2000, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-state-boards/14418 "2000-03-06T14:48:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nightingale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@Nightingale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightingale)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-state-boards/14418/1 "2000-03-06T14:48:00Z")
And now I’m a real live honest to goodness Registered Nurse!! Actually, I’ve been practicing under a temporary licence for a month, but it’s a great feeling to finally have the real thing in hand. WOOOOHOOOO!!! * * * “There are more things you don’t know than there are things that I do know. I despair of the imbalance.” – Dr. Morgenes, _The Dragonbone Chair_ ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-state-boards/14418/2 "2000-03-06T14:49:00Z")
Congratulations! The boards are the hardest part of the whole process. Good for you! We need more dedicated nurses out there. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lvick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d07c76/32.png) [@lvick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lvick)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-state-boards/14418/3 "2000-03-06T16:43:00Z")
Congradulations, there IS life after nursing school ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-state-boards/14418/4 "2000-03-06T16:57:00Z")
Congrats to you. That’s a hard job and one that many people are not cut out for. I’m impressed. * * * _I’ve learned that if someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it._ ---
**Author:** ![Elenfair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cc9497/32.png) [@Elenfair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elenfair)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-state-boards/14418/5 "2000-03-06T17:10:00Z")
YAY! Congrats! Nurses deserve all our respect and more… considering what they have to put up with! Congrats and best of luck!! 🙂 * * * “Semper Ubi Sub Ubi.” =-) ---
**Author:** ![Nightingale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@Nightingale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightingale)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-state-boards/14418/6 "2000-03-06T17:12:00Z")
Awwwww, thanks guys (and girls)! p.s. ultress, I love your sig! * * * “There are more things you don’t know than there are things that I do know. I despair of the imbalance.” – Dr. Morgenes, _The Dragonbone Chair_ ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-state-boards/14418/7 "2000-03-06T17:42:00Z")
So, can I call you Nurse Diesel? (see “High Anxiety”) Please remember that nowadays thermometers are made to be used orally. ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-state-boards/14418/8 "2000-03-06T17:44:00Z")
Congratulations, and watch out for guys like Wally! 😉 * * * “I thought: opera, how hard can it be? Songs. Pretty girls dancing. Nice scenery. Lots of people handing over cash. Got to be better than the cut-throat world of yoghurt, I thought.” - Seldom Bucket ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-state-boards/14418/9 "2000-03-06T17:46:00Z")
Many congrats!! Tough job, few thanks, great rewards. Good luck!! * * * Seen on billboard near home: Don’t make me come down there. God ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-state-boards/14418/10 "2000-03-07T06:12:00Z")
What an accomplishment! Congratulations, Ms. R.N.! -Melin ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-state-boards/14418/11 "2000-03-07T06:13:00Z")
Say, are you going to be one of those OR nurses, 'cause I got questions. Suppose they’re doing heart surgery and your chest is open and you sneeze. Does your semi colon go flying across the room? What do you do if at the end of the operation you take a count and you’re short a scalpel, two homo stats and a pair of pinking shears? What if in the middle of the operation the surgeon’s pager goes off and it’s his stockbroker? Does he turn things over to one of his flunkies so he can go to a phone and give instructions to sell/buy/hold/trade? Do you have a backup plan in case the surgeon says, “Fuck it. I can’t do this anymore. I’m in a dead-end job.” And finally, what kind of music is piped in during the operation? If it’s Celine Dion, they can bury me now. * * * Voted as: **The poster you’d most like to meet.** I demand a recount. ---
**Author:** ![Germ\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Germ\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Germ_Boy)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-state-boards/14418/12 "2000-03-07T06:14:00Z")
Obvious Congratulations to YOU!!! I’ve been in the biz for almost twenty years and must say that the rewards are often intangible. When I go home after work, I can at least know that someone’s life is a little better from my efforts. (I wonder if I could even pass boards now?!) GB ---
**Author:** ![Nightingale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@Nightingale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightingale)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-state-boards/14418/13 "2000-03-06T21:32:00Z")
You know, GB, I feel the same way about my job. Everyday somebody thanks me for what I do; how many people are that fortunate? * * * “There are more things you don’t know than there are things that I do know. I despair of the imbalance.” – Dr. Morgenes, _The Dragonbone Chair_ ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-state-boards/14418/14 "2000-03-06T23:16:00Z")
Way to go!!! My brother-in-law just passed his boards, too, and now he’s an official dentist. Free dental care!! ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-state-boards/14418/15 "2000-03-06T23:22:00Z")
Congrats, Nightingale! (Or should I just call you “Florence”?) I’m with ultress on this: Not a job that anyone can do. I rank it up there with policeman and U.S. President as a job that I could not and would not have. (I run short on empathy.) I’m sure you’ll be a great nurse. * * * _Now with 1000 posts of pure wisdom!_ (or something) ---
**Author:** ![Jeannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@Jeannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeannie)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-state-boards/14418/16 "2000-03-06T23:28:00Z")
Hey! Way to go! You know, I’ve been wanting to ask a professional about this pain I’ve been having… ---
**Author:** ![Germ\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Germ\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Germ_Boy)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-state-boards/14418/17 "2000-03-07T00:01:00Z")
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that every relative and neighbor you have will now assume that you can diagnose "this pain that kinda comes and goes, but it really sorta is mostly here (pointing vaguely to the abdomen) and it only happens when I (choose one: eat a big meal, don’t eat, watch someone else eat, think about eating, or when I am around chemicals (unspecified, just chemicals)). I guess we should be flattered. Immense good luck to you and refer to my email for pressing infection control questions. GB ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-state-boards/14418/18 "2000-03-07T00:16:00Z")
Congratulations on becoming a **R** eal **N** urse! I remember my wife going through the agony of waiting for board results; It took 3 weeks as I recall! Congratulations again! ::HUG!:: * * * VB Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-state-boards/14418/19 "2000-03-07T04:09:00Z")
Congratulations, Nightengale!!! It’s awful when all those years of schooling come down to **one** test. But what a huge relief when the thin envelope arrives! I hope you enjoy your new professional status. 🙂 * * * Sue from El Paso Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-state-boards/14418/20 "2000-03-07T04:54:00Z")
Congratulations!! A word of advice though… If your co-workers try to talk you into participating in a television show where the premise is marrying a multi-millionaire, just say NO. * * * “I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”