Behind Closed Doors: ‘Like a Rock’

Popular jingles and catchphrases revised for OR nurses.

I understand the need to advertise, I really do. But it still annoys me. Especially on local broadcasting where a program scheduled for 30 minutes gives you maybe, if you’re lucky, 20 minutes of actual programing, and 10 minutes of annoying ads.

And those jingles! Some products I simply won’t use because of the song or catchphrase. However, some of the most catchy jingles and catchphrases from the past and present seem to fit so well with what we do...

• “What’s In Your Wallet?” A Dunkin’ gift card, a business card from a Jehovah’s witness but NOT the kind of pay I should be earning!

• “Liberty, Liberty, Liberty” What I want after a marathon 12-hour shift in GI.

• “Intelligence Everywhere” Except in this preop bay apparently.

• “Don’t Leave Home Without It” Your cell phone. By the end of the day it will feel like you’re having withdrawals.

• “Push Through The Debilitating Symptoms of Migraines” Working in the total joint room playing head banging music.

• “They Make Money The Old-Fashioned Way” Anyone working in perioperative care earns what they get and deserves much more.

• “It’s Everywhere You Want To Be” Travel nursing.

• “Can You Hear Me Now?” Yes, sir. Now, please stop yelling at me.

• “They Do Exist” Relief for lunch.

• “Like A Good Neighbor” The room next door has that additional prep kit I need.

• “Try It You’ll Like It” Said the rep about the new Endometrial Ablation Machine. I don’t want a new machine. I just got comfortable with the old one!

• “Good Till The Last Drop” Blood and platelets.

• “It Keeps Going And Going” This case with a brand new surgeon doing 50 C-Arm shots.

• “Home Of The Whopper” Gossip in the OR.

• “Reach Out And Touch Someone” What some patients do as they are going to sleep.

• “They’re Great!!!” The surgeons and staff we work with.

• “We Bring Good Things To Life” A benign diagnosis from a frozen section.

• “Maybe She Was Born With It” Hardly, this bada$$ new grad learned it from us oldies.

• “Just Do It” Dance to whatever he has playing on his playlist. And do it like no one is watching.

• “I Am Stuck On Band-Aids Cause Band-Aids Are Stuck On Me” Playing on a loop during wound debridement and dressing changes.

• “Feel Epic” Emergency case gone well for patient and staff.

• “All Drive, No Drama” A good day in the OR.

• “What Would You Do For A Klondike Bar?” Trade cases with the Nurse across the hall.

• “Snap, Crackle and Pop” Orthopedic cases.

• “Be All That You Can Be.” Get your CNOR.

• “Call Roto-Rooter, That’s The Name And Away Go Troubles Down The Drain” One word: Colonoscopies.

• “I’m A Big Kid Now” Out of orientation.

• “Mayhem (All State)” Turning the room over a room in 15 minutes. (My favorite commercial.)

• “It Gives You Wings” A single thank you, you did a great job from the surgeon.

• “Like A Rock” Our dedication to what we do.

OSM