Losing A Brain

Nurses routinely spend time looking for their brains. The shift began with a nurse from day shift calling out, "Has anyone seen my brain?"

Someone replied, "What does it look like?"

The description did not involve any grey, squishy matter, but a piece of paper. Soon it was found to the nurse's relief.

Our brain is our report sheet where we keep our notes on our patients. None of us have good enough memories to absorb all of the information about each patient, so we have to write it down. If we lose the report sheet, we're lost. This also leads to a change of shift report consisting of the nurse just saying, "The patient's fine." When that happens, it's tempting to ask them if they lost their brain.