All You Lefty's Out there....

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  1. Are You Left Handed?

    • 28
      Left Handed
    • 6
      Right Handed
    • 5
      Ambidextrous - Use both left and right

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:coollook: Just out of curiosity, how many of you nurses out there are left handed?

Me too. I write, golf, bat, and give injections lefty, but use scissors, target shoot, and open doors righty.

In high school my twin (who's a righty) and I both played outfield. Coach could only tell us apart by which hand our glove was on!

Specializes in NICU.

I'm a lefty too!! :D

I do almost everything with my left-hand, except use scissors!! I hated it when I was in elementary and we'd do a project, the teacher would pass out the scissors and say "all of you left-handers raise your hand", so I would raise my hand. Then she would give us left-handed scissors. Ok it was not very easy cutting with my right hand using left-handed scissors :rolleyes:

But everything else I do left-handed. And I'm "left-eared" too. I can only talk on the phone with the phone up to left ear, I never can have it up to my right ear!

Lefty here too. The only thing I do with my right hand is golf. I have a heck of a time learning nursing skills as all of my instructors are right handed. This past weekend I was doing clinicals in the ER and the nurses looked at me like I was crazy when I went in to do a foley and they had set my things up and I had to move them all to the other side! I just smiled and said "Lefty!". :rolleyes: :)

And I'm "left-eared" too. I can only talk on the phone with the phone up to left ear, I never can have it up to my right ear!

OMG, RainDreamer, I do that too! Good to know I'm not the only one! :cheers:

It used to worry me how much I favored my left ear on the phone.. I even went and got my hearing tested a few years back just to be sure I wasn't avoiding the right side subconsciously due to hearing problems! :)

~*~kendra~*~

Specializes in OB/peds (after gen surgery for 3 yrs).

Me! Except for using scissors. Strange. :uhoh3:

I'm ambidextrous. Does that count? I do some things with the Left hand and some with the right.

:coollook: Just out of curiosity, how many of you nurses out there are left handed?

I am. :)

Tina, APRN-BC

Specializes in Critical Care,Recovery, ED.

Lefty here too... guess that makes me right minded.

I'm ambitextrous and left eye dominant. All 3 of my kids are lefty.

I'm a lefty as well. Pre-nursing and left handed, that's me. ;)

write somewhat well with my left hand - print better with my right

everything like sewing, IV's, etc. all with my right hand? what does that make me? the odd ball? :rotfl:

:coollook: Just out of curiosity, how many of you nurses out there are left handed?

Hi there,

Lefty pre-nursing student here. Actually, I'm ambidextrous, but write with my left hand.

When I broke my finger a few years back and had to have surgery on it, I found out I could also write and draw pretty well with my right hand. But I still prefer my left, because it feels more "comfortable" and I can write faster with my left hand.

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