You Know You're a Nurse When...

Love this topic!

How about when someone tells you they fell/cut themselves/had surgery etc etc and you ask if you can see the wound?
You write a letter or email and find yourself using "nursing shorthand" while writing?
When watching ER or some other medical drama you find yourself yelling out diagnoses or treatments?
You are going out to dinner or somewhere nice and realize you have no nice clothes but 500 pairs of scrubs in every color, style, and print available?
You use bandage scissors to cut coupons.
When someone tells you they aren't feeling well, the first question out of your mouth is "Are you drinking enough water?" followed by "any nausea? dizziness? diarrhea?"
You can go into a 1/2 hour rant on the important of hand washing.
You are a strong believer in comfortable shoes.
When you are going to write something, the first thing you do is look for a black pen. Other ink colors just aren't allowed.
You have pens and note pads from every ambulance company, drug rep, and medical facility around.
And lastly, you have a sneaking suspicion that you might be a kleptomaniac---where did all these pens/syringes/papers/etc come from?
Hope y'all can relate!!
Cheers from Texas.

You use hemostats as a household tool to fish the toothpaste lid out of the sink drain, pull frayed shoelaces through the eyeletts of your childs shoes, and to fix the spark plug connection on the lawnmower. (among other things).

Goodness,
You guys have had tears rolling down my face while reading these, keep em coming ..........

These are great! How about when the first thing you do when you get home is run to the bathroom. Even worse stripping off your scrubs while on the toilet because you can't stand to be in them another minute. Or freaking out your date at the movie by rolling the veins in their hand/arm in the dark.

You can tell strangers are nurses if they are wearing Clogs -- they just haven't caught on in "civilized" society. (hee,hee!)

True Story (happened to me on vacation last week):
You know you're a nurse when your 12-year-old daughter in the back seat of the car says "Mom what date was I due on?" and then proceeds to figure up on a stray gestational wheel when she was conceived!!!! How many 12-year-olds know how to use one of those???

DAG GUM!!!! rdhdnrs, I would not even know how to figure that stuff out.!!

nick

These are all true!!!
Can't resist.; my recurring nightmare is becoming a shish-ke-bob while bracing the pt's. body during a chest tube insertion!

or, contests to see who gets grossed out at lunch first.

You go from a BKA to lunch-pasta with red sauce- without even thinking about it.

1. You know your a nurse when you are counting your husbands pulse while he sleeps and worrying because he is wheezing on expiration.

2. When your husband or loved one says I have a chest pain and you pull out your stephascope and bp cuff.

3. When you tell people "Gosh you have great veins"

4. When you look at a wound and say "the wound looks great" and you turn around and the caregiver is green.

5. When you get all excited because you see blood when starting an iv or drawing blood. You'd swear we just found oil on our land.

6. If someone coughs and brings up sputum in front of you, you have the desire to know what color.

7. You always check how much edema in in your mothers legs and feet when you visit your mother. And she yells stop looking at me and you haven't even said anything yet.

8. When you aren't embarrased to ask a complete stranger when was your last bowel movement. Or, do you have any difficulty with urinating.