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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[Jakrabt]

You overhear a conversation comparing ailments and you silently sneak away from them hoping they don't recognize you and ask your opinion.

[nerdtonurse?, BSN, RN]

You're helping the surgeon do an I and D on a huge abdominal abscess, and all you can think is, "do they have Brunswick stew in the cafeteria today?"

[sharpeimom]

when you take your new orthopedic resident boyfriend home to meet mom on a lovely fall afternoon and since you have

driven 75 miles on the spur of the moment, she insists you stay for the leg of lamb dinner she's cooking for five friends.

as dinner begins, your date offers to carve the lamb, and as he carves, he very enthusiastically and in lurid detail, describes

his very first aka. i was interested but everyone else?:eek:and:barf01:

[Epic_RN]

When you ask your significant other if he gave cold medicine to your son and he replies "It wasn't on the MAR" -- and he's not a nurse lol! True story, happened tonight when I got home from work :)

[Summers_Off]

Can a student nurse chime in?When your mother is telling you about a road trip up the coast she is making with some of her retired friends and you start talking about how they need to get out and walk every two hours and the S/S of DVT. Then you ask if any of them are on hormone replacement therapy and/or smoke!

[isthatso?]

You have a nightmare that the foley which was supposed to be removed from the patient yesterday is still in.

[isthatso?]

:lol2:I once woke my sister up and asked her why she did not call me when my patient was having a seizure.

[merrywhiterose]

When the UPS man comes, you sign your name w/RN

When your family keeps calling you for medical advice.

X-mas/birthday presents usually include something w/ "nurse" or "RN" on it.

When your spouse would rather bleed to death than have you look at his hand that he's cut w/a knife.

When your parents introduce you as "our nurse", instead of "our daughter".

When someone hears you are a nurse, they automatically assume you are "making the BIG bucks!"

When you have to constantly explain what something medical means to your kids or spouse.

[CountyRat]

You know that you are a nurse when you are eating with a colleague, and you notice that the wait staff is dirrecting patrons to the other side of the resturant with the urgency of firefighters dirrecting people away from a toxic chemical spill. (True story, by the way.)

[SlumberingCub]

You know you're a nurse when you find stashes of band-aids and sterile gauze in purses you aren't using "just in case" anything were to happen. (I made this discovery the other day. haha).

[Dalzac, LPN, LVN, RN]

When your daughter calls you in the middle of the night to come over to her house and clean and change the sheets to your grandkid that just threw up every where.

[AnonRNC]

You know you're a nurse when your teenage children understand terms like code, brady (cardia), vent(ilator), and demise AND they know which terms necessitate a glass of wine for Mama.