What's in your pocket - ER Style - Page 4

Steth around neck and tape with it
ammonia inhalant on back of badge
small sharpie clipped to badge
Vocera (ugh) clipped to chest pocket
trauma shears and two pens in right pants pocket
gum and chap stick in inner right pants pocket
phone in left pants pocket

Used to carry much more, but have downsized and I am glad I did. Pants used to get holes in them from everything else, but now if it ain't in the room, I won't need it. And, I do still have hemostats and some other things in a backpack, but those are nonessential to carry. Also, to an above poster...notes do go well on paper towels!

What is SL? NTG? I'm an new nurse trying to learn these different abbreviations

SubLingual NiTroGlycerin.

Well I don't carry it in my pocket, but I carry around a jug of Golytely to help everyone rid themselves of the overwhelming amounts of crap that they're full of...

You sound like a mobile Pyxis!! LOL!

You sound like a mobile Pyxis!! LOL!

When on a St. John duty I have a pick pocket that has the following:
Trauma shears
Pen
Penlight
5x pairs of gloves
Silk and paper tape
Phone
Normal scissors
Triangular bandage

I start each shift with one pen and trauma shears in my pocket with my stetho and tape are around my neck.

I'm curious about what is in everyone's pockets at the END of their shift,lol. I ended my shift yesterday with an empty ativan vile, 2 lid tabs from medication viles, 1 bandaid, a 3ml syringe still in the wrapper, a wad of alcohol swabs, 6 pens (accidentally stolen from coworkers a pt's family member's phone number they wrote on an old receipt, 55 cents, and a gum wrapper.

Well i'm clinic nurse who did a year long stint as ER volunteer when I was a student so whats in my pockets has more in common with ER nurses than the rest of my cowokers. All this weighs probably 5 lbs. such that my preceptor joked that I had just about as much equipment in my pockets as a cop. I avoid putting items in my back pocket as things then to fall out when I sit down. Well technically I don't need all of this equipment as I'm not an ER nurse however I feel safer and more confident with all of this stuff in my pockets as I know I will have everything I need if I need it. This is my security blanket of sorts . It did come in handy during one weekend where I was called in to work in a city wide emegency ah from the hurricane sandy. I was one of the few people who had scissors. OK end of shift I have to empty pockets less I accidentally take home stuff I should not

Stethoscope
alcohol pads,
sharpie
dry erase marker
black & red pens,
gauze
bandaid
pen light
tape
scissors
ruler
2 pairs of gloves
cellphone,
wallet,
aquaphor hand oil "barrier creme',
Vaseline,
2 granola nut bars,
$10-20 cash,
mini calendar,
mini comb
2-3 sheets of 8x11
RN Notes spiral pocketbook,

-Steth
-Gum or mentos
-Two pens
-Scissors
-My keys( no matter how bad my shift is, my keys remind me that I'll go home eventually)