JOBMALS
Born in Japan. Working everywhere.
Nurse Jobmals / 001
Jobmals are animals with jobs. First up: Nurse Rabbit — a first-year nurse on a med-surg floor, with one bandage on her right ear and one piece of hair that will not lie flat. She is not a hero. She is just trying to finish charting before 8.
Her shift, in her words
Nurse Rabbit doesn't do punchlines about patients. She does the part nurses recognize instantly: the timing, 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.
— Call light, again
Shift ended at 7:00. It's 7:42. I'm still charting.
— Still charting
Lunch break: scheduled for 12:00. Actual lunch: 3:47 PM. Standing up. Half of it. In the med room.
— Haven't had a break
Character sheet
The bandage is always on the same ear. So is the stray piece of hair. Those two details are how you know it's her and not some other rabbit in scrubs.
Neutral
Happy
Crying
Surprised
AngryThe set / 16 stickers
The set runs in the order a shift actually happens. The artwork is finished; the words on it are Japanese, because that's where it was drawn. English is below each one.
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
What's next
Two of her lines don't translate, and we're keeping them that way. Otsukaresama desu is what you say to someone who has 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 — and where it lands — depends on who asks for it. If you want them on your phone, say so.
About Jobmals
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.