Check out veins (not feeling so stange for that anymore )
Signed RN on checks and kids homework
Automatically hit the sanitizer anywhere
Tried to scan my hospital badge to enter the bathroom
Knock before entering doors at home, sometimes I even include, "its your nurse"
After working 3 in a row, being off 1 , and working 2 more I got out of bed and automatically picked out my scrubs for the day...then realized it was my day off.
I attended a local concert; when the lights dimmed and the strobe lights turned on my immediate thought was, "oh god I hope no one has epilepsy" then proceeded to scan the crowd.
I loved the prior poster who said they "have 5 bottles on my bedside table" w/o skipping a beat...
Was reading through this again (after many months) and finally realized something. I recently changed facilities and had issues getting in the doors for the first two months. The old facility had tap cards, now I have to swipe a magnetic strip. Talk about a pain!
I work on a neuro floor and find myself constantly checking people's pupils!
My fiancé has the most amazing veins, I am not very good at IVs so I beg him to let me practice, it's always a no.
It's funny because a lot of you answer your home phone with the unit you work on, I do the opposite! One time I answered "Hello" at work and the person on the other end was so confused.
Specializes in Trauma, ER, ICU, CCU, PACU, GI, Cardiology, OR.
my friends tell me that i use the "we" most of the time for example "are we going to eat today?" " we are going to get a bath" "oh yes we are doing much better" etc.
I am so guilty about the dream about work thing. I was 3 years into nursing when I was taking care of a patient who was Dx c DVT in her brachial artery. Was also a smoker and we caught her multiple times smoking in her room (do you think we can't smell the cig smoke or see your H.R. go hp from 86 to 118 on the tele monitor when you take a nicotine puff?). Anyway, after the second day of taking care of this lady, I want home and dreamt of running into her at the grocery store and giving her the biggest lecture of her life! ('What the H**| do you think your doing?!? Don't you know you can die! All the work I've just done to save your A$$ and here you are p*^^ing it all away out the window with a smoke!) that was the actual dream quote!?
I palpate my husband's veins and radial pulse compulsively.
I just caught myself signing my son's daycare registration forms with my initial, last name-but caught myself before I actually put "RN"
I tend to use medical shorthand-the p or c or tid or q12h-no, teachers and husbands do not know what this means
I ache for sterile q tips when applying neosporin to any cut (including my own)
I keep some alcohol wipes in my purse "just in case"
I have a well-stocked first aid kit-which includes band aids with angry birds, Dora, Disney princesses, Spongebob, and Spiderman, at all times. Again-just in case.
Hand sanitizer EVERYWHERE
I have to fight the urge to run over and thoroughly assess other people's children when I am at the park with mine and they fall off the slide and start to cry. (I mean, they are crying, so they are probably fine, but still...can I just look at his pupils?)
I am pretty sure that lady I saw at the baseball game is a liver patient
When wrestling with my son (he's 10, and a big guy, but I can still beat him) "If you can talk, you can breathe-tap out!"
Sometimes I think my alarm clock is a telemetry alarm
Specializes in Ambulatory Surgery, Ophthalmology, Tele.
This is a great thread. I am guilty of signing first initial last name sometimes instead of my "real" signature, I catch myself before I write "RN". Even before I was a nurse I could tell when some have thyroid troubles/graves disease from working with an ophthalmologist for years. I have had to stop myself a few times from asking someone if they see a doc for their thyroid. I have been at disneylad in the bathroom and waved my hand under the towel dispenser waiting for the paper towel roll to automatically spew out a paper towel and it is an old fashioned dispenser with folded pieces of paper towel. Boy, did I feel stupid. I always look at strangers veins especially when they look like an easy stick then wonder if they are a "roller". I assess people in the grocery lines, especially legs, swollen ankles or discoloration. I always notice pupil sizes, uneven pupils, droopy eyelids (ptosis), bells palsy. Again, from years of working "eyes". Especially on my first day off I will be a little harder on my lap top, tapping buttons harder (I didn't notice this at first, my hubby had to remind me one day to be easy on our brand new lap top because I was slapping down on the enter button) I also have pushed F11 or F12 key instead of the enter button or if I wanted to go to the last screen. Of course, it didn 't work and I think, Duh! When my son was little and forgot to flush, I would assess before flushing. I auscultate my family's and even my own breath sounds when sick. . I pour pills in the cap and don't touch them when giving to my hubby or kids. Also guilty of yelling at the TV when medical shows aren't acurate. That's all I can think of right now. I am sure there are more.
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I am guilty of signing first initial last name sometimes instead of my "real" signature, I catch myself before I write "RN". Even before I was a nurse I could tell when some have thyroid troubles/graves disease from working with an ophthalmologist for years. I have had to stop myself a few times from asking someone if they see a doc for their thyroid. I have been at disneylad in the bathroom and waved my hand under the towel dispenser waiting for the paper towel roll to automatically spew out a paper towel and it is an old fashioned dispenser with folded pieces of paper towel. Boy, did I feel stupid. 
. I pour pills in the cap and don't touch them when giving to my hubby or kids. Also guilty of yelling at the TV when medical shows aren't acurate. That's all I can think of right now. I am sure there are more.
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I have a habit of announcing every little thing that I am going to do. I do that with my residents and it is now ingrained in me.