ER must haves

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what things do you carry inside your pockets usually?

some must haves that you can't work without?

pls share :)

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.

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Specializes in emergency.

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.

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Specializes in emergency.

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?

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Specializes in ER, telemetry.

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!!!

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Specializes in ER/SICU/Med-Surg/Ortho/Trauma/Flight.

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.

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Specializes in Trauma/ED.

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

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Specializes in ER/ ICU.

Ammonia inhalant, alcohol prep, ntg spray. calipers,penlight, tape, cash, tourniquet,small mini calculator.

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folded papers

2 pens

5- 1 dollar bills

steth around my neck

10ml ns flush

ntg bottle

blistex

sometimes pair of gloves

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Specializes in LTC,SNF,acute,HH,cty health ,clinic,ER..

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.

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing, Critical Care (Heart).

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'.";)

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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?

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...

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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...

I'm thinkin I'll need to shed a little waistline to make this work. :chuckle I'll stick to the pocket

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