You Know You're A Nurse If...

[Joe V]

You know you're a nurse if...

You've been telling stories in a restaurant and had someone at another table throw up.

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[Leonca]

When your dad asks what you did at work today, and when you tell him his reaction is a mixture of and (he shares my sense of humor, but not my exposure to gross medical things).

when you want some entertainment during dinner, and pull up "what is your most gross, yucky, disgusting nursing horror story?" to read while you eat.

[teeniebert, LPN]

...your tool box and sewing kit both have hemostats in them!

[Medicalgirl2011]

Omg all these things are hilarious I can't wait to start nursing school and become a nurse ^_^ sincerely a pre-nursing student

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

When your tackle box is full of medical supplies.

[sharpeimom]

...your tool box and sewing kit both have hemostats in them!

I remember one quilting class I took where someone saw hemostats in my supply box and remarked how "weird" those "scissors" looked. Uh.....O..K!

[T-Bird78]

When your 11-year-old calls you from the school nurse's office c/o feeling sick and you ask if he's throwing up (no), bleeding (no), or running a fever (no) and tell him to deal with it and you'll see him when school's out.

When the same child says his tummy hurts so you ask for a description of the pain, sharp or dull, location, and assess his abdomen to r/o appendicitis.

[Leonca]

If you ask your boss to let you have some decades-old unused hemostats because you think they will make a nice combination decoration/tool at home (they found a home hanging from the hip bone of my cat skeleton).

[SquishyRN, BSN, RN]

Had to resurrect this thread because I just had one of those "moments."

You know you're a nurse when...

You spend 2 minutes looking for the sharps container to throw away a disposable razor before you realize you're at home.

[brillohead, ADN, RN]

Had an "at home" realization myself this week.... My 14yo DS came down with the GI virus that's going around. He reported each incident of emesis and diarrhea, describing quantity and quality each time.

You know you're a nurse if your kid is better at documentation than he is at doing his homework or chores!

[brillohead, ADN, RN]

Had another one today.

Took my dog to the vet, and asked them to teach me how to express his anal glands, which had been bothering him lately.

Evidently this isn't something that "normal" people ask to do on their own at home because it is "so disgusting".

[GoldenRoya]

You know you're a nurse when the one feature you're really proud of on your wedding dress is the pockets.

[brillohead, ADN, RN]

.... you give your (hyper-with-neurotic-issues-rescued) dog his Prozac dose for the day, then go looking for the MAR to initial.