You Know You're A Nurse If...

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

You mean you didn't make one? I did, when my dog was sick and on three different meds multiple times a day. Only way I could keep straight if she got her meds when they were due or not. Although no, I did not initial if I gave the med, I just put an X in the box.

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Specializes in Cardio-Pulmonary; Med-Surg; Private Duty.
You mean you didn't make one? I did, when my dog was sick and on three different meds multiple times a day. Only way I could keep straight if she got her meds when they were due or not. Although no, I did not initial if I gave the med, I just put an X in the box.

In his case, it's pretty easy to keep track -- he gets the Prozac daily and he gets Xanax PRN. I'm the only one in the family who ever gives him his pills, so I don't have to worry about any of that. But you bet your sweet bippy I'd be making a check-sheet if he had a complicated dosing schedule!

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Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

Your caregiver calls you and says"I'm in bed with the diarrhea. I don't think I'll be able to make it to your place today;" and your reply is; "Kind of smelly isn't it being in bed with diarrhea."

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.. when you're in public and trying to find a hiding spot to start texting away and then realize you aren't at work.

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Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.

you get home in the morning, and start trying to pull your coat open so you can unlock your door with your badge

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.
.. when you're in public and trying to find a hiding spot to start texting away and then realize you aren't at work.

There is no way you can be an actual nurse with this attitude. Some nurse must have really annoyed you from reading your 15 posts on here. Not all nurses hide and text all day or are above doing ADL's. There are bad apples in every profession.

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Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
There is no way you can be an actual nurse with this attitude. Some nurse must have really annoyed you from reading your 15 posts on here. Not all nurses hide and text all day or are above doing ADL's. There are bad apples in every profession.
How true. Every single caregiver (and there were many) who did that while in my home got reported. I won't even ask for substitutes when my caregivers are gone due to that fact.
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Specializes in Cardio-Pulmonary; Med-Surg; Private Duty.
You mean you didn't make one? I did, when my dog was sick and on three different meds multiple times a day. Only way I could keep straight if she got her meds when they were due or not. Although no, I did not initial if I gave the med, I just put an X in the box.

In his case, it's pretty easy to keep track -- he gets the Prozac daily and he gets Xanax PRN. I'm the only one in the family who ever gives him his pills, so I don't have to worry about any of that. But you bet your sweet bippy I'd be making a check-sheet if he had a complicated dosing schedule!

I think I jinxed myself.

Dexter, the hyper-with-neurotic-issues-rescued dog in question, tested positive for heartworm (probably acquired in his original home state of Mississippi and brought up here to Michigan). So now we've got him on a twice-a-day antibiotic to (hopefully) weaken the adults, in addition to his once-a-month preventative.

I'm working 3-4 nocs (12-hr) in a row and can't tell what day it is at any given moment, so I just printed up a MAR for Dexy. :(

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Specializes in Neuro ICU and Med Surg.

Aw your doggy looks just like my Jake. Except he doesn't have the white on the chest and paws. I got my Jake from the Michigan Humane Society. He is now almost 10.

I have considered making a MAR for my grandma. I haven't but considered LOL.

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Specializes in Ambulatory Surgery, Ophthalmology, Tele.

My dog takes phenobarbitol (for seizures) daily and has her own pill box. My husband and I take turns so the pill box is great and helps so she is not under or over medicated.

When she first started having seizures you can bet your sweet nurse's hat that I kept a log of seizure activity, medication and feedings. Her kennel became like her little hospital bed and she was our little patient.

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Specializes in Ambulatory Surgery, Ophthalmology, Tele.

You know when you are a nurse when you have a slip of the tongue and use nursing lingo with people NOT in the medical field and they look at you like you are speaking another language. (You know...like p.o, QD, prn, walkie talkie, etc.)

The other day while driving home from work (my body and brain were very tired) I watched someone crossing the crosswalk and in my head the word "pediatrician" came to mind instead of "pedestrian". I think I was tired. :zzzzz:

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How true. Every single caregiver (and there were many) who did that while in my home got reported. I won't even ask for substitutes when my caregivers are gone due to that fact.

They weren't hiding well enough. The best of the best know where all of the hiding spots are. I actually had a CNA approach me and ask for some advice with respect to that as they didn't have keys to access all of the fun places.

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