You Know You're a Nurse When...

You know you are a nurse when you are doing head-to-toe assessments of people you meet.

...when you catch yourself "lipping" the coke bottle because you know your husband (who has a cold) has a tendency to drink straight from the bottle!

hahahahhaha nice

yeah lol !! )

As a former Infection Control Nurse, I'd get my own bottle!

while doing some house hold repairs I needed some WD40,sent my son to the hardware store around the corner to pick it up for me,even wrote it down on a note for him.He came back and said "the man doesn't have it and doesn't know what it is"Looked at the note I had written and sure enough it said d5w instead of WD40

That's funny

1. You can eat A hot dog, a bacon cheeseburger or a full turkey dinner and wash it down with coke at 8am (I used to gross out my non-nursing friends with that one)

2. after working night shift you stop off at the gas station and sign your name (insert here) LPN/RN on your debit card receipt, or check/check stub (i've actually signed Jess lpn.)

3. you get occasional constipation and think to yourself "I better ask my doctor for a telephone order for senna or colace"

4. You gross out the table next to you with battle stories of code browns, gushing wounds and foul smelling stasis ulcers at Ruby Tuesdays.

5. you wake up thinking you hear the call light/feeding pump/iv pole alarms going off and get out of bed to turn them off and check on your patient, and don't realize you'e at home until you fall down the stairs (done that one too. no serious injury. I'm seriously considering moving into a 2 bedroom apartment)

6. You can smell death 5 days before a person dies

7. you go home and go shopping online for mostly scrubs and comfortable shoes to wear while working

8. your friends ask you for medical advice

9. You sing a song to the beat of the call light chime

10. bandage tape is the duct tape of the nursing world.

not only do you bet on your drunken ER pt's blood alcohol, but they bet too.

"I think I'm 400"
LOL

Knew I was a nurse when my bf had been sleeping restlessly for 2 nights (Lyme disease is like flu aches X10!) and is finally sleeping really soundly. The alarm in my head goes off "He's too quiet" and I am checking pulse and looking for chest rise!

Emma "I know it's nothing but just in case..." Peel