JOBMALS
Animals at work.
Meet Nurse Rabbit — first-year, med-surg, still charting. She's the first of the Jobmals: animals with jobs, drawn in Japan, working everywhere.
No punchlines about patients. Just the part every nurse recognizes: the time, the room number, the thing that happens every single shift.
Call light. Room 4. Sixth time this hour. It's the TV remote. It is always the TV remote.
Shift ended at 7:00. It's 7:42. I'm still charting.
Lunch break: scheduled for 12:00. Actual lunch: 3:47 PM. Standing up. Half of it. In the med room.
Fine.
Great.
Nope.
Huh?
Ugh.Clock-in to clock-out, in order. They were drawn in Japan, so the words on them are Japanese — the English is right underneath.
Clocking in for nights
夜勤入ります
Off the night shift
夜勤明け
Report is running long
申し送り長い
Call light, again
ナースコール連打
Got the IV
ルート確保
Going to take vitals
バイタル測ってきます
Starting rounds
ラウンド行ってきます
Paging the doctor
ドクターコール
Go get an order
指示もらってきて
Still charting
記録が終わらない
Haven't had a break
休憩とれてない
Staying late
残業確定
Left on time
定時で帰れた！
PTO approved
希望休とれた
Otsukaresama desu
お疲れさまです
Copy that
了解です
LINE (Japan) — submitted, awaiting review
Two of her lines stay Japanese on purpose. Otsukaresama desu is what you say to someone who worked hard — roughly, thank you for your tiredness. Ittekimasu is what you say on the way out: I'm going, and I'm coming back. Everything else can be English. Whether that happens depends on who asks.
A rabbit is the nurse. She stays the nurse. You shouldn't have to remember which rabbit you're looking at.
Rabbits are bright, busy, and feel everything. A bear in the same scrubs would be a completely different nurse.
The art comes from a Japanese sticker tradition. The jokes come from work, which is the same everywhere.