You Know You're a Nurse When...

You know you're a nurse when you find yourself trying to convince your cardiologist that it's different when YOU look to Dr Google for theories on what's wrong with you, not like when a REGULAR patient does it and it's annoying. Ahem.

You know you are a nurse when your neighbour asks you to check the wound on their 12 year old After the Dr has dressed it....just in case he got it wrong.

When you can get in and out of a public bathroom without your hands touching anything but the tissue you brought in your pocket....I have become quite adept at latching a stall with the toe of my shoe!

7/8 of the bedroom closet is full of scrubs, 1/8 are your boyfriend/husband's dress clothes and that blouse is in "I know I have one somewhere..land"

Family holiday dinners are always a fun game of trying to remember enough of what a person says to you to muster an intelligible answer and trying to subtly hide your chain yawning (because they somehow seem to always fall after the third 12 hour night shift in a row and at 1pm)...as well as concentrating on getting the fork directly into your mouth.

...if you have tampons, pens, bandage scissors, and gum seeded in every possible handbag, lunchbag, vehicle, and your locker....as well as spare coffee filters and bags of dunkin donuts coffee.

One year I was quickly doing my Christmas cards during a rare break on night shift and realized halfway through the pile that I was signing... Love, ....., RN

It's amazing how much stuff can fit into a small locker. But I feel like I spend as much time at work as anywhere else .

The holiday dinner thing made me laugh. They're harder to stay awake during than your 3rd night shift--and how do they always fall either at the end or at the middle of your night runs? They seem to be a marathon of trying to keep your eyes open and interested in whoever is speaking, lol. Then to top it off, everyone always wonders why you can't just take the holidays off, it would just be so much easier....

I have not laughed like that in a long time. I laughed so hard I almost......my pants . Kudos to all of you for posting those lines. I had to take off my glasses and wipe my eyes alot through these. From one warped nurse to another Thanks

Yeah but I have done it too! LOLOLOLOL

Hey, some of us don't like coffee, okay? I've been doing that since MA school.

You know that whenever your extended family has something planned on the weekend it is always the weekend you work! The weekend you are off...never...

I add ice before pouring my coffee so I can chug it, as a warm drink, not hot. That way you it doesn't have to sit at the nurses station, and risk getting spilled....