[BBFRN]

Originally posted by WashYaHands
You use hemostats as a household tool to fish the toothpaste lid out of the sink drain, pull frayed shoelaces through the eyeletts of your childs shoes, and to fix the spark plug connection on the lawnmower. (among other things).

OMG!!!! I do all of these things!!!!

[guesswho]

I work nights and have actually "nodded off" on the toilet. Thank Florence it was so uncomfortable that it woke me up before Iwas there very long!!
My husband hates it when I feel of his veins( he has those kind where you could start 5 or 6 14ga caths in one arm, no sweat.) !

[Kiwi Ali]

My daughter goes to college right next to the hospital I work at, they rang to say could I pick her up as she was sick - I told them to tell her to walk!!
I stuck a thermometer in my daughters mouth, felt her glands and sent her to the dayroom, until lunchbreak when I could run her home!! - no blood, no bones, no pyrexia, no worries!! LOL
Then in the next hour we had two ambulances from the same college with kids coming in them!! But I wasn't worried cos I knew my daughter was already here!!

[nrw350]

Geez! I am glad my mom is not a nurse, when I am sick I would want a little compassion lol.

Nick

[ssr]

only nurses can observe a "seizure" in progress, tell EMS "don't treat it--she's faking," and then give it a rating----"I've give it a 5 . . .catchy, but you can't dance to it." (showing my age here)

[patadney]

You know you are a nurse when your 3 yr old takes the cat's BP by wrapping a BP cuff around it's tummy(fortunately he didn't think of putting it around the neck or we'd have had to have a funeral) -- or when you notice there's always a sharpie in your purse with all the drug company pens--or when you feel sorry for the grocery store clerk who has to buy her own pens and give her one of the nicer drug company pens

[bungies]

Ever noticed - those of you who take a train to and from work - that if someone's shopping bag breaks there are three others on the train who also finished work at 1530 who reach for a roll of tape?

That happened to me - we all enjoyed the joke.

[HLR_RN]

I knew I was officially a nurse when...

...on my way to the cafeteria for break I had to share the elevator with a porter taking a dead body to the mourge. Instead of being bothered by it I stood there staring at the mourge cart planning what I was going to eat. I was absolutely starving. Should I be bothered by this?

Even my non-nurse friends have learned about the odd behaviour that identifies us nurses. One night while out with a group of friends in their 20's I stood up after dinner and asked if anyone had to go pee! After everyone stopped laughing my best friend's boyfriend told me I sounded like a pre-school teacher. Fortunately my best friend defended me, she told him not to worry I wasn't crazy I was just a nurse!

[nrw350]

That last one, I do not understand about the restroom. Please explain lol.

Nick

[saaber]

Flying home after vacation, the passenger next to you is barfing into the barf bag, and all you can think is "i'm not cleaning it up. I'm still on vacation for 12 more hours!"

Telling people you stay up all night professionally.

Checking the phase of the moon while driving into work.