You know you are a pediatric nurse when...

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...you are looking at adorable pictures of your friend's 5-month-old baby on facebook, and almost the first thing you notice is his lovely big, straight scalp vein, and you therefore see it as a plus that he doesn't have almost any hair yet. Yikes!!! :)

You know your a pediatric nurse when.....

you hear a kid coughing in a restaurant/grocery store/ etc and you immediately think to yourself "oh no......I wonder how long that kid has had that cough. Wheres the hand sanitizer"

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Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.
Haha. :-) But actually, I've never inserted a scalp IV, and I've only ever seen one. It was on a chronically ill child with extremely poor access. We don't use scalp IV's unless there is truly no other alternative. They don't tend to last very long and can you imagine an infiltration injury in the scalp? It's one thing to have an extravasation scar on the hand, but on the face?

But the babies sporting half a Dixie cup over the butterfly made them look so darn cute! Like wooh said, party hats!

You know you're a peds nurse when you become so comfortable handling babies and burping in various positions that when you "sit" your own chid supported by your hand under his chest your mother-in-law exclaims "it seems like he could hardly survive that!" Seriously, I thought she might sneak off and call CPS on me. lol

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Specializes in peds palliative care and hospice.

So I work with a little girl on the weekends (day home health) that has 5 brothers and sisters. Today, the two oldest youngest (my pt is the youngest) were looking at the book of world records. One of the first pictures was the lady with the longest recorded toungue in the world. Their response?

Oh, I bet she could eat lots of ice cream cones

Thought y'all would enjoy :)

Dont'cha just love peds?

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Specializes in Pediatric Hem/Onc.

These are great!

I have a moment every time Dora comes on. I can be in a store, someone's house, doesn't matter.....when the flipping backpack song, or even worse...."We did it!" starts playing, I have to forcibly stop myself from dancing and singing along. Sometimes I think Dora is the devil, but it puts kids into a happy trance lol The we did it song is great encouragement for getting a stubborn 3 year old to take their meds.

Ugh. Now it's stuck in my head. We did it, we did it, we did it, yeah!

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