Re: You Know You're a Nurse When...
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.
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