The Ugly Necklace Contest

Land of Odds : Fifth Annual, 2007
The Ugly Necklace Contest
A Jewelry Design Competition With A Twist
...GO VOTE...

PAULA PAPP MARTINI, RN
from
West Hempstead,
New York

"Nurses are Curses......."

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Wearing Her Piece

POEM

Nurses are Curses........

I worked the graveyard shift last night -- my god, were there some sights!
I had a constant stream of admissions - mostly old, with chronic conditions.

My patients are sleeping, medicated in beds, visions of stool softeners dancing in their heads.
We in our scrubs, and they in their gowns -- fashions created to hide extra pounds.

Nurses are curses, they often appear from a pain in the head, to a pain in the rear.
We come when you call, as fast as we can-- scurrying down the hallway with needle in hand.

Now, doctors are nice-folk; you'll find them in offices, and they like to listen, because they're more novices.
I know that part's true, 'cause when your illness gets worsest, they send you out of their office -- to us -- the hospital's nurses.

Gout and asthma, and a few heart pains, even a sprinkling of varicose veins.
People yelling and wetting their beds, sending us nurses over with meds.

We know better than you, what you need for your tummy,
So get back in bed, or it's the needle you dummy!

In case I forgot, these things I collect, I keep on my necklace, which is always correct.
Yes! Nurses are curses; I'd rather not see one.

But, because we are so special, be proud, if Ye be one!

Front View

Close Up

MATERIALS:

The items used in the necklace are things we gathered while working -- IV tubing, saline, syringes, intubation items, tape, etc.

I am a nurse on Long Island in New York and some of the nurses I work with helped me to collect the items on my necklace. They are all things we nurses use in our daily practice.

What is really cool is that the baseline of the necklace itself is IV tubing and the IV flow regulator is the actual clasp. It regulates how many drops you see dropping into the IV tubing so it has a small little wheel which, when rolled all the way up, releases the IV tubing just like a clasp! Then after you insert the tubing back into the white flow regulartor, the "clasp" gets rolled back up and the tubing is now tight!

Clasp Assembly
The necklace is strung on IV tubing.
The IV flow regulartor is the clasp. It has a small wheel which, when rolled all the way up releases the IV tubing, just like a clasp.

...GO VOTE...

PAULA PAPP MARTINI, RN
from
West Hempstead,
New York

"Nurses are Curses......."