You Know You're a Nurse When...

You can't stop assessing elderly people on the street. Are they using their walkers correctly? Are they seated properly in their wheelchairs properly. They have no idea why you're staring at them, and neither does the person who's having a conversation with you.

You find yourself filling out christmas cards in nursing shorthand -- with black pen.

Nothing ever surprises you.

A nurse has a vacant, exhausted look in their eyes matching their empty wallet.

You might be a nurse if you've ever welcomed in the New Year drinking apple juice from a urine cup!

love this post !!!!Can relate to everything........
You think the perfect patient is an I & D..intubated..diprvan drip
You know that bilnd leading the blind......2 ortho surgeons looking at an EKG
You think that the perfect lunch is eating the bagel you picked up at 6am and it`s now 4:40 pm

OH MAN!!! I never would have imagined these things!!!! I am glad my mom is not reading them or else she would be hitting the pain button from her surgery today.

Nick

You walk through Walmart and have an urge to go correct the fit on people's blue arm slings because they are carrying their arms in totally wrong positions, or adjust their crutches to the right height.

You might be a nurse if...

You hear "TLC" and automatically think Tube, Lavage, and Charcoal.

Someone "Gives you the finger" and you pull out a lancet and Glucometer.

Here is one I just thought of, and it can been taken anyway you all like.

"You rely more on a person's LOC (level of consciousness) than you do their IQ"

LOL

Nick

I know I am not the only one that has gone over to someone's home, went to the bathroom and assessed all the prescription meds in the medicine cabinet.
"..oh my, Jake is taking Viagra! BWAHHH HAHAHAHAH!"

OH MAN!!!! Thats bad!!!!!!!!

Nick