[Tiiki]

I use my sissors to open meds, cut tape, whatever non-direct patient use I can. I usually use sterile sissors when doing patient's dressings, etc. Sissors always come in handy!! Cutting off an armband of a discharged patient, there is alwasy some sort of use!

Cheers!
Jo-Anne

[ERNurse752]

Cut clothes off, Kerlix, tape, sx tubing, personal weapon...

[OBNURSEHEATHER]

Originally posted by l.rae
......once trimmed my bangs with them.....

Ya know, I used them once to trim up some pieces of hair I thought should be shorter! (dontcha just love bad hair days!) They are quite good for this!

Seriously, there are basically only 2 things I ever use them for, those long tails of the ID bands and cutting steri strips in half.

Heather

[tripletmom]

I got to use mine a couple of times for bandages and such but every time I lent them out they never came back, no ransom note or anything. Sad to say that now I am a borrower. They should sell this kind of stuff at the allnurses.com store

[adrienurse]

I have had three pairs of bandage scissors stolen from me in the last 2 years. What's that about? Come on get your own!

[coleen]

no i don't cut up charting from the actual charts - just my notes and practice chartings I do on scrap which i find the need to do 5 times before i can actually put in NN

[Rustyhammer]

Practice chartings???
Is that for real?
-Russell

[canoehead]

I stopped buying bandage scissors because they were too expensive and always walked away. Now I buy the childrens blunt tip scissors for 3-4 dollars each that work just as well and are less of a pain to replace.

[SharonH, RN]

Originally posted by coleen
no i don't cut up charting from the actual charts - just my notes and practice chartings I do on scrap which i find the need to do 5 times before i can actually put in NN

Get outta here! When in the heck do you have time to do practice charting? And 5 times? Why do you have to rewrite it, what's wrong with the original? I'm genuinely curious here.

[BadBird]

I use them to cut off ID bands that are too tight!!! my personal pet peve. Some are so tight they are like tourniquets.