Fess Up! How much HSP stuff is in your drawer???

[CaLLaCoDe]

I must confess to having too much stuff accumulated over time in my junk drawer at home.

Nonetheless my thieving goods have come in handy for home repairs, the feeding of wild birds, and sending silk wrapped packages across state lines during the holidays.

I have the idiotic habit of taking one roll of tape to return and bringing home two. Oh well... there goes my raise!

[teeniebert, LPN]

Alcohol wipes and the little paper rulers for measuring wounds. If I was doing blood sugars toward the end of the shift, I'll empty my pockers before leaving. I'm paranoid about bringing home lancets or other sharps.

[lpnflorida, LPN]

They use to keep a basket in our report room for us to empty our pockets into before we left. I do not know how or why our basket disappear, Now monthly I clean out my junk drawer and home and return what belongs to work, alcohol pads mostly, polymem, red ends for iv tubing etc. I buy my own pens and sharpies. I hate the pens at work the one day wonders that they are.

[makes needs known]

Tape, alcohol wipes, glucoscan lancets, gloves, and nebulizer vials, and once one of the keys to a narcotic cart that I had to drive right back to work.

[Magsulfate, BSN, RN]

I have so many alcohol wipes it is unreal. I also accidentally took one of the unit phones home with me once.. brought it back the next morning. I felt really bad about that one!

[rntofnp2014]

I empty my pockets before I report off. That way, my pens, wipes, tapes, scissors, flushes, and stethescope are right there when I come back to work. If anything, I end up finding alcohol wipes in my pants pockets and they end up in my junk drawer in the kitchen. Not intentionally, of course.

[HM2VikingRN, RN]

How could I forget purple nitrile gloves....