You Know You're A Nurse If...

Orca, ADN, ASN, RN · Oct 4, 2017

You talk to non medical people using nursing terms, and they give you a puzzled look.

When I was in my last year of nursing school and still working my prior job, without thinking I started inserting medical abbreviations into the documents that I was having typed up for mailing or distribution. "What is this c with a line over it?"

FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I · Oct 4, 2017

Yeah, you get that very puzzled look, and thren you have to explain what the word meant, or they roll their eyes, and walk away.

bananas1 · Oct 31, 2017

When you're bored in a study day so pass the time by counting the resp rate of all the other nurses in the room.

When you always assess your own **** - because it can tell a lot about your health.

When you tell your colleagues your headache is nothing, but deep down you're remembering that patient with meningitis and you're freaking out that you have it.

allnurses Guide · Nov 15, 2017

when you get home in the morning, and start trying to get your winter coat open so you can badge open your front door........

LibertarianNurse · Nov 15, 2017

When you tell your husband you have a headache and follow it up by saying that the pain from it is only 4/10 on the pain scale, but that's enough to need ibuprofen; taken with food of course!

Cat365 · Nov 27, 2017

I'm a student.. But my 4 year old said to me last night, "mommy, I need a band-aide or my boo boo will get BACTERIA in it!!" (in a frantic voice) lol.
He'll probably be like the one posters 4 year old who went to school talking about nursing stuff. He is already way into learning anything that mommy is. And he loves the bones! I've been trying to talk my husband into letting me buy a skeletal man! Yeah, he won't give in. Way too creeped out about it. Hahaha.

I was given a three foot skeleton by my Aunt (a previous EMT/dispatcher) when in school. He (due to skeletal differences I believe he is male) is still standing watch over my bed. It has creeped several people out, but I like him.

brown9340 · Jan 27, 2018

If you have ever intentionally talked about something disgusting at Thanksgiving so that you could get the last piece of pumpkin pie before anyone else.

If you have been beat up by a 90 year old 98 pound woman that has dementia and is on fall precautions and you are trying to keep her in bed.

If you have been hit, kicked, called names, bitten, peed on, and thrown up on by various patients over the years.

HannahMarine30 · Jan 28, 2018

When you wake up in the middle of the night confused, wondering why you've been asleep when you have tons of charting to do.

Elfriede · Jan 28, 2018

When a phone rings - within the tv film youÂ´re watching - , your pulse climbs from 60 to 120.

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OldDude · Jan 28, 2018

Good one Joe!!

sevensonnets · Jan 30, 2018

...My King Charles Spaniel had to have 2 teeth pulled when he was 15 years old. Needed antibiotics and pain meds for a few days. I carefully explained to him that Dr. Ken wanted him to take them twice a day to make the ouchie go away so he would feel better, and they might make his tummy feel icky. A couple of years later (yes, he was 17 years and 4 months old) he collapsed on the bathroom floor and had no pulse or respirations, so I gave him mouth to snout respirations and CPR and brought him back. That's how I know I'm a nurse. I knew what to do and I did it. Besides, he was my youngest child!