Funny Goose Christmas Shirt Nurse Got Too Silly Christmas Lights IV Bag

Got Too Silly, Goose Edition

A goose in a folded nurse cap, red cross and all, has wound itself into a string of Christmas lights and seems delighted about it. Its beak is wide open, its eyes are huge, and one wing is still half raised, as if it were mid-announcement when the cord caught. We drew this scene for the nurse whose December has stopped making sense somewhere around the third double shift. The hand-lettered words “Got Too Silly” sit underneath, a little wobbly and a little crooked, the way a sign looks when someone makes it at 3 a.m. between rounds.

Then there is the IV pole. The cord that tangles the goose does not stop there. It loops across the wings, climbs the pole, and ties itself around the hanging bag, so the whole corner of the ward ends up decorated. Tiny sparkles float around the pole as if the unit has joined in. Nurses and the aides who keep a floor moving will know this mood on sight: tired and festive at once, and well past keeping a straight face. We made it for the person who hangs tinsel on the supply cart and somehow gets away with it.

The Funny Goose Christmas Shirt With the IV Pole Wrapped in Bulbs

This funny goose Christmas shirt is a nurse Christmas shirt for anyone in healthcare who meets the holiday season with a sense of humor. The goose in a nurse cap carries the whole joke, and the mismatched bulbs, the sparkles and the dangling IV bag keep it from being just another cartoon bird. It suits the unit potluck, and it suits the slow walk in from the parking garage at dawn with a coffee in one hand and a badge clipped crooked.

It also works as a small gesture between coworkers. A charge nurse might hand one to the new grad who just survived a first Christmas on the floor. A student heading into clinicals might pull one on to calm her nerves, and a night-shift friend might open one in a gift bag and laugh out loud before she finishes unwrapping it. The goose has clearly been through something this week, and it is happy to say so.

Would a nurse goose in Christmas lights still make sense after December?

The joke is an exhausted nurse and a hopelessly tangled goose, so it fits any stretch where the shifts run long, including the gray weeks of January and the heart of flu season.

Keep an eye on that IV bag glowing in the middle of all those bulbs, because it is the one calm thing in the whole picture.