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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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When you're cleaning up a major code brown and wonder what's for lunch while your stomach's growling
Shucks - did that on week 1 of my CNA clinicals. Probably the one thing I did that the CI from Hades actually approved of!
Interestingly, really haven't had all that many code browns since I hit the floor "for real" (e.g. I get paid for it).
----- Dave
When you can change your dust ruffle on a full size bed using the same technique as doing a bed change on a total care patient.
You have night mares of taking care of 8-9 patients after a night of chaos and getting 4 admissions.
You know for a fact that if anyone wanted to torture you for information, that all they need to do is stick you in a room with a beeping IV pump that you couldn't turn off.
You can watch shows like Bones, CSI, NCIS, Body of Proof, etc. while eating a meal that just might include spaghetti sauce and feel perfectly normal.
You're 4 year old knows all the bones in the body (while I was in A & P) and when he started kindergarten he was telling his class about skin assessments and care planning and medication administration, to the point that I got a phone call from his teacher about words she didn't understand
"The Force is strong with this one..." :redbeathe
And, passes the NCLEX-RN on the first try - at age 8!:yelclap:
----- Dave
You know you're a NICU nurse when you cross-train a PICU nurse and say, "..and we have baby X, who is very old..." "How old?" "About 4 months" and the PICU RN bursts out laughing...Kudos to you peds and adult nurses. I have no idea what I would do with anything that big.
Noo, honey. Kudos to YOU. I recently made my whole family laugh hysterically when, holding my 2 week old niece, I said that: "She's just too small. That's it, I'm never having kids, I'll adopt toddlers. She's just entirely too small."
sharpeimom
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when your husband brings the dogs in after a walk and when he says they both pooped, you ask
about color and whether it was formed or more like tasty freeze.