Confess! Whats the craziest force of habit you've done in the "Real World" - page 22

I do this too!

my friends tell me that i use the "we" most of the time for example "are we going to eat today?" " we are going to get a bath" "oh yes we are doing much better" etc.

I am so guilty about the dream about work thing. I was 3 years into nursing when I was taking care of a patient who was Dx c DVT in her brachial artery. Was also a smoker and we caught her multiple times smoking in her room (do you think we can't smell the cig smoke or see your H.R. go hp from 86 to 118 on the tele monitor when you take a nicotine puff?). Anyway, after the second day of taking care of this lady, I want home and dreamt of running into her at the grocery store and giving her the biggest lecture of her life! ('What the H**| do you think your doing?!? Don't you know you can die! All the work I've just done to save your A$$ and here you are p*^^ing it all away out the window with a smoke!) that was the actual dream quote!😓

when i'm at a chinese restaurant, i tend to peel & open my chop-sticks like they were a sterile syringe package

Assessing everyone for mental illness. (In my head, not out loud!)

My conclusion? There's a LOT of people that should be in treatment that aren't.

I too am guilty.
I palpate my husband's veins and radial pulse compulsively.
I just caught myself signing my son's daycare registration forms with my initial, last name-but caught myself before I actually put "RN"
I tend to use medical shorthand-the p or c or tid or q12h-no, teachers and husbands do not know what this means
I ache for sterile q tips when applying neosporin to any cut (including my own)
I keep some alcohol wipes in my purse "just in case"
I have a well-stocked first aid kit-which includes band aids with angry birds, Dora, Disney princesses, Spongebob, and Spiderman, at all times. Again-just in case.
Hand sanitizer EVERYWHERE
I have to fight the urge to run over and thoroughly assess other people's children when I am at the park with mine and they fall off the slide and start to cry. (I mean, they are crying, so they are probably fine, but still...can I just look at his pupils?)
I am pretty sure that lady I saw at the baseball game is a liver patient
When wrestling with my son (he's 10, and a big guy, but I can still beat him) "If you can talk, you can breathe-tap out!"
Sometimes I think my alarm clock is a telemetry alarm

This is a great thread. I am guilty of signing first initial last name sometimes instead of my "real" signature, I catch myself before I write "RN". Even before I was a nurse I could tell when some have thyroid troubles/graves disease from working with an ophthalmologist for years. I have had to stop myself a few times from asking someone if they see a doc for their thyroid. I have been at disneylad in the bathroom and waved my hand under the towel dispenser waiting for the paper towel roll to automatically spew out a paper towel and it is an old fashioned dispenser with folded pieces of paper towel. Boy, did I feel stupid. I always look at strangers veins especially when they look like an easy stick then wonder if they are a "roller". I assess people in the grocery lines, especially legs, swollen ankles or discoloration. I always notice pupil sizes, uneven pupils, droopy eyelids (ptosis), bells palsy. Again, from years of working "eyes". Especially on my first day off I will be a little harder on my lap top, tapping buttons harder (I didn't notice this at first, my hubby had to remind me one day to be easy on our brand new lap top because I was slapping down on the enter button) I also have pushed F11 or F12 key instead of the enter button or if I wanted to go to the last screen. Of course, it didn 't work and I think, Duh! When my son was little and forgot to flush, I would assess before flushing. I auscultate my family's and even my own breath sounds when sick. . I pour pills in the cap and don't touch them when giving to my hubby or kids. Also guilty of yelling at the TV when medical shows aren't acurate. That's all I can think of right now. I am sure there are more.

Even though I'm not a nurse yet I always perve on people's veins!! I carry hand sanitiser with me EVERYWHERE. Places I have fallen asleep are bolt upright at the library, curled up on the tiled kitchen floor (it was hot and the floor was cold), upside down and on a show ride.

I also tend to document and do a mini handover when I'm sick ( I still live at home with mum) so if mum isn't awake but I am I'll go into her and tell her something like this:

At 0200 I had 2x panadol and 2x neurofen
Temp: afebrile
HR: 70bpm
Resp: 15
Clear fluids PO