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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[AcuteHD]

If you can convince yourself that the suspicous new stain on your scrubs is "probably" betadine.

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

You're in the hospital for an epidural, and since you're on oxygen at home you are hooked up to a portable oxygen monitor during the procedure. After you are released and you are getting ready to go home, the nurse attempts to take the little portable oxygen monitor from your hand and you tell her you want to keep it because you are fascinated with it, she tells you you're a nurse at heart for sure.

[T-Bird78]

The plant in your break room is sitting on a Chux pad!

[MrsCannibal]

When the only people who can make it through an entire Thanksgiving meal are yourself, your nurse mom, firefighter/paramedic sister, and nurse brother-in-law. We always lose the kids and spouses once we break out the wine and start swapping stories!

[.Simplicity.]

You noticed a highly vascularized arm and it's like you hit the jackpot...nurse Media indeed

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

You know you're a nurse if you hear a patient scream when getting her/his blood tested

[nrsang97, BSN, RN]

You know you're a nurse if you hear a patient scream when getting her/his blood tested

Or before you even poke them for the blood and they are screaming and carrying on.

[Parakeet]

True story:

My brother and some of his friends had a get together and I was there. They had two kinds of coke: regular coke and coke zero. I told all of them that I learned aspartame is the result of feeding ecoli toxic waste. Needless to say, no one drank the coke zero!

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

True story:

My brother and some of his friends had a get together and I was there. They had two kinds of coke: regular coke and coke zero. I told all of them that I learned aspartame is the result of feeding ecoli toxic waste. Needless to say, no one drank the coke zero!

Drinking Cherry Coke Zero while reading this, and not putting it down. I must be a nurse!

[angelnurseinstructor]

You're giving meds to your child and you ask her for her name and date if birth...and try to scan her armband with your phone.You wake up unto the middle of the night hearing call lights, bed alarms, and IV pumps beeping.

Or, you wake up in the middle of the night, scared to death because it's 3 am and you forgot to give your patient his 2 am meds - and then realize it's your day off.

[angelnurseinstructor]

You are not allowed to talk during medical shows. Or, no one will watch medical shows with you anymore as you spend all your time commenting on the diagnoses and treatments, or pointing out the mistakes.

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

Your cat goes to the vet and comes home with several new meds to take. Some are twice a day, some are once a day, and one is every other day. So, to keep straight what gets given when because you know you'll never keep it straight in your head, you make yourself a KMAR (kitty medication administration record).

And oddly enough, this mirrors one of my other posts in this thread! Apparently PMARs (pet medication administration records) are my theme?