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Ointment Nurse

A complimentary term toward a nurse who places ointment in the fornix of eyes after eye muscle surgery.
Doctor: “Ointment nurse.”... “Ointment nuuuuuurse.”

Nurse: I’ll be there in a second to place the ointment.
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Nurse Practitioner 

A midlevel provider who went to school for 6-7 years. Many have an MSN but the DNP degree has been introduced to try to blur the lines with Physicians who instead train for a minimum of 11 years. NPs use this obscurity in an attempt to validate their claims for unsupervised practice. Additionally, many graduate nursing programs are degree mills boasting 100% acceptance rates and 100% online coursework. NPs serve an important place in healthcare but are best paired with a supervising Physician.
Nurse Practitioner: "I wanted to be a doctor but the MCAT wasn't open-book, so I went to the University of Phoenix MSN program with online exams".

Nurse Practitioner 

NP = Online Trained Midlevel Provider
The NP was a nurse practitioner or non-Physician provider

Nurse Kitty 

My cat’s name because she helps me and works her healing magic by selflessly working on the frontline at my house.
I don’t know how I would ever cope without Nurse Kitty.
Nurse Kitty by Dr Bunnygirl June 28, 2020

Nurse drop 

Nurses feel the need to let people know they are nurses. Similar to name-dropping, a nurse-drop is when a nurse tells you that they are a nurse very randomly in a conversation without the subject matter even being relevant to the topic.
Nurse drop:

Person A: Hey have you eaten at that new restaurant? It's really good...
Nurse: Yeah I've been, it's pretty good. I'm a nurse so I have a distinguishing palate.
Nurse drop by Phiir November 12, 2011

narsearchism 

The act of thoroughly and repeatedly Googling ones self.
Brian is constantly plugging his name into the computers search engines to see how much information is out there about him. Total Narsearchism. I guess he wants to be a celebrity.
narsearchism by LCat October 3, 2013