Specialties Emergency
Published Oct 12, 2006
what things do you carry inside your pockets usually?
some must haves that you can't work without?
pls share :)
zaleah
41 Posts
Pen behind my ear, stethescope looped in my ties for my scrubs, hemostats on my thigh with tape and a tourniquit, and my trauma shears tuck int he waist band of my scrubs on the left side. (I can't stand anything around my neck)
I even reach for the shears at home when someone needs scissors or behind my ear for the pen......LOL
I do not carry other stuff in my pockets--lost too much stuff. I know where the resources are for drugs and procedures.
ERnurse1139
10 Posts
There are stethoscope waist band clips (arround $5) that you can purchase through nursing scrub catalogs like Jasco. I love the idea but I didn't have any luck with mine, the stethoscope kept falling off of it-- I was a new nurse, trying to have all the right stuff to be stylish, cool and efficient, and there I was dropping my stethoscope on the floor all the time. What a dork! I eventually lost the $150 Littman stethoscope due to it falling off and me not noticing it. Needless to say I'll never use that little contraption again.
At first when I read that you put your stethoscope in the ties of your scrub pants I thought "wow, great idea!" Now I'm wondering how you get it out. Do you untie your drawstring in front of your patients? I have many patients who would enjoy that, but I can't imagine this is what you do! It does sound like a good idea, I'm just not getting it! Can you clue me in?
Jennifer, RN
226 Posts
Just bought an IV drug book that now follows me to my station each shift. We used to have them at every pyxis, but they walked. I can not live with this reference book!!!
rgroyer1RNBSN, BSN, RN
395 Posts
Nursing pocket
1.) pens
2.)Sharpie
3.)Calculator
4.)small notepad
waist clip-
1.) flight pager
Personal Pocket
1.) Gum
2.) $10.00 in ones
3.) Cell phone
4.) wallet
5.) jolly ranchers or peppermints
Neck-
1.) Stethoscpe
2.) ID Badge
Fanny pack-
1.) Carpuject
2.) 3-10 ml Flushes
3.) 1 each of 14 and 16 angio's, 2 each of 18, 20, and 22 angios
4.) 4 saline locks
5.) 2 tourniquets
6.) tape, gauze, trauma shears, and clamps.
Larry77, RN
1,158 Posts
Breast pocket: NS flushes, blunt tips, alligator clip, nitro bottle, alcohol swabs, badge on retractable line, 2 pens in sleeve pockets
Left pants pocket: Wad of non-latex gloves (still have latex in rooms...ugh)
Right pants pocket: carpujet, sometimes sharpie
Left cargo pocket: stethoscope
Right cargo pocket: Trauma shears, ED/critical care pocket guide
Roll of tape clipped to scrub top with hemostats, and PDA clipped to waist
AfloydRN, BSN, RN
341 Posts
Ammonia inhalant, alcohol prep, ntg spray. calipers,penlight, tape, cash, tourniquet,small mini calculator.
kathy_bear
26 Posts
folded papers
2 pens
5- 1 dollar bills
steth around my neck
10ml ns flush
ntg bottle
blistex
sometimes pair of gloves
nurse2b2004
7 Posts
Steth and badge around neck. In pockets- 6-12 alcohol pads, bandage scissors, 2-3 black pens, pen light, tape, money, watch with timer, tape measure, pieces of paper. Currently, a list of names of people working with sodium cyanide in our area. Trauma shears, reference guides and calculator are on the counter readily available.
AstrosFan
14 Posts
I like to wear the pants with the cargo pockets on the side, so here goes:
Left front pocket: alcohol swabs, tourniguet.
Right front pocket: money clip, Burts Bees lib balm, bottle of NTG
Left side Cargo (inside pocket): four 10ml syringes and a med list I made
Left side Cargo (outside pocket): 2 blood transfer devices for blood draws
Right side Cargo (inside pocket): Trauma Shears, Small book with Snellin chart and other stuff I may forget.
Right side Cargo (outside pocket): five 3ml syringes
Back Pocket: RN Critical Care and ACLS Booklet.
I used to carry around my PDA (Dell Axim) but was just too heavy and I think its almost faster just to look in the Mosby's at the Pyxis station.
Stethoscope is around my neck, but don't like it there, I hate stuff around my neck. Pens in front pocket of scrub top. To semi-quote from the movie Boomerang "You gots to 'accessorize'.";)
scrmblr
164 Posts
You tie a bow on your pants...On the right (or left) side of the loop you loop the ear piece of your stethoscope-bring the stethoscope cording around your back (like a belt) and the bell of the stethoscope hooks into the other side of the loop...
casualjim
191 Posts
I'm thinkin I'll need to shed a little waistline to make this work. :chuckle I'll stick to the pocket