40 Funny Nurse Memes To Add Humor to Nurses Week
- Nurses Week is a small way to show appreciation for the essential work nurses do every day.
These past few years have proven just how essential nurses are. They're often the first person you see when you're sick, injured and even born. Plus, their exhausting, often thankless work is crucial to keeping all of us safe, healthy and comfortable, whether it's during the joys of new motherhood or the darkness of our final hours.
Nurses Week
—which is currently happening from May 6 to May 12—is just one very small way to show our appreciation for the women and men who work so tirelessly for public health.
These nurse memeswill make nurses giggle ruefully and feel seen, and they can help the rest of us understand just the tip of the iceberg that is their "every day," even if it's with humor.
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40 Funny Nurse Memes for Nurses Week
1. Cue your inner Xtina.
https://www.twitter.com/ATLmurse/status/535408235831111680
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2. The hard knock life indeed.
3. We won't snitch.
https://www.twitter.com/MemeNursing/status/990319236051501056
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4. You look great!
https://www.twitter.com/MemeNursing/status/990317759291641862
5. Stand your ground, nurses!
https://www.twitter.com/nursememesuk/status/760417980471730176
6. Nurses need to prepare for anything and everything.
7. It's all fine, all good.
https://www.twitter.com/nursememesuk/status/710936463647629312
8. Hey, they still have good taste.
https://www.twitter.com/MemeNursing/status/990234543608205312
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9. Just a little help, please!
10. Nurses, we see you and we appreciate you... and we understand.
https://www.twitter.com/MemeNursing/status/990235287946178561
11. Relatable!
https://www.twitter.com/nursememesuk/status/763787915155636225
12. The good shifts are good. The bad shifts are horrid.
https://www.twitter.com/nursememesuk/status/771461707059331072
13. Let 'em know, nurses!
https://www.twitter.com/nursememesuk/status/739116318813761536
14. It gets better...right?
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15. Who needs sleep?
https://www.twitter.com/nursememesuk/status/762753377344294916
16. Just saying.
https://www.twitter.com/NurseMemes/status/470980680013606912
17. Karen patients be like...
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18. Celebrate the small victories like you're Tony Stark.
https://www.twitter.com/nursememesuk/status/756561850653892608
19. For real though, what day is it?
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20. We see you, night shift nurses. And we are not judging!
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21. Rose gets it.
https://www.twitter.com/nursememesuk/status/727204550109741060
22. You have to love those WebMD patients.
https://www.twitter.com/nursememesuk/status/743071519140663296
23. Props to your night shift nurses for letting the day shift brace themselves.
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24. That's surely one way to put it.
https://www.twitter.com/nursememesuk/status/760418673840549888
25. The professional smile stays ON (most of the time at least)
26. Shhhhhh... Let me have my go-go juice.
27. You're a team!
https://www.twitter.com/nursememesuk/status/723081857789734912
28. Nurses, we see you. You deserve better.
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29. You're still a doll!
https://www.twitter.com/nursememesuk/status/725525799403720704
30. Gee, who could have possibly seen that coming?
https://www.twitter.com/blueeyednurse_/status/737913591391719425
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31. Don't you wish you could do this in real life?
https://www.twitter.com/Sassy_Nursey/status/727396078119702528
32. Even the best moisturizer may not be able to prevent this type of aging.
https://www.twitter.com/nursememesuk/status/722129092389249024
33. Hey, that's on the doctor!
https://www.twitter.com/NurseMemes/status/470981320408330240
34. Well, did they?
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35. Admit it, you've seen some...interesting things.
https://www.twitter.com/nursememesuk/status/700315764520263684
36. "If I stay here a minute longer, there's going to be an unhappy little accident."
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37. They just don't get it. But they're going to soon!
38. Define 'nice.'
39. It's never the Jamie Dornans who need the sponge baths.
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40. Sometimes the best days on the job are thanks to those coworkers around us.
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