You know your nurse brain is still at work when....

[EmpathyInAction]

You see a curved tube from a broken shampoo pump on the floor and your first thought is "Why is that trach tube on the floor??"

Feel free to add your own.

[MunoRN, RN]

When you're at the store and some sort of electronic tone notification comes over the PA system, and you immediately starting looking for the monitor screen to see which patient is alarming.

[springchick1, ADN, RN]

You pass a knife at the dinner table like a scalpel[emoji40]

[sallyrnrrt, ADN, RN]

Is it not true

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

I know my mind is still at work during those instances when I answer my personal phone and say, "This is ___ at Bla Bla Bla Healthcare. How can I help you?"

[TiggerBelly]

You answer your home phone by saying the name of the facility you work at followed by your name.

You hit "9" on your home phone before dialing.

[Pepper The Cat, BSN, RN]

You look for someone to double check the dose of insulin you are giving your cat. When you realize you live alone, you make the cat double check the dose. Because insulin Must! be double checked!!

[ScrappytheCoco]

Opened my fridge and tried to push "take.":bored:

[Farawyn]

You answer your home phone by saying the name of the facility you work at followed by your name.

You hit "9" on your home phone before dialing.

THIS.

You make your bed with mitered corners.

[Rexie]

When you're watching a concert on TV and you can't stop staring at the great veins in the guitarist's arms.

[Farawyn]

When you're watching a concert on TV and you can't stop staring at the great veins in the guitarist's arms.

I totally vein fiend.

[NICUNurseEliz]

My grocery store's employees carry the same kind of phones that we do at work. (Can't remember what kind they are off the top of my head) Their ringtone is the same as the ring that goes off when someone hits the staff assist button at work in an emergency. So, every time that I go shopping and their phone rings, I feel the urge to run to a bedside or grab intubation supplies.

I also recently opened up a taco package for my husband and kept the inside of the package "sterile."

Also, you know you have nurse brain when you mentally log your own Is and Os. "Let's see, I drank 240mls of juice this morning, then 480mls of water. I voided twice..."