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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[sharpeimom]

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.

[GitanoRN, BSN, MSN, RN]

you know you're a nurse if you wake-up rushing to get to work, to find out that is your off day

[IEDave, ASN, CNA, LVN]

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

[belle87RN]

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.

[IEDave, ASN, CNA, LVN]

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

[belle87RN]

Thought of another one...

If you've ever said, "This patient's history reads like a textbook."

[ninja-nurse, BSN]

*to questout on pg 3*

You may have to be older to get the reference, but not the action! Can't tell you HOW many times I pat pockets going "now WHICH one did I put that..."

[ninja-nurse, BSN]

I call my report sheet my "brain". I have been known to be seen running all over the building lookin for my "brain" which is where I put my patients vital signs on!!

AMEN! My whole floor does this!

[ninja-nurse, BSN]

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."

[ninja-nurse, BSN]

jodiw4572 You forgot the tattoos from knuckle to neck.

[AnonRNC]

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.

i read that as "dog" (not "dogs") and when i saw "both pooped" on the walk, i thought you meant the dog and the husband!

[kmarie724]

You know you're a nurse when your newly potty trained 3 year old gets some poop on her finger while wiping herself in the bathroom and when she starts throwing a fit about the poop on her finger, you say "it's just a little poop. Calm down and wash your hands."