What is in your pockets at shifts end?

[Chuckie]

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[kellysue]

well lets see...the other morning when i got home i had my hiliter, green, red, and black pen, cigs and lighter, change, scissors, empty paper med cup, a straw, a residents eye drops(oops), and a peanut butter cookie wrapped up in a papertowel. It was stale by then.

[Agnus]

Pen (big fat ergononic one) yellow highlighter, calculator with phone numbers an my license number in the cover, Lsterine Pocket Pals, lipstick, hemostats, calipers, stethescope, sissors. alcohol pads, K-Y packet, gloves, narc keys, car keys, sometimes money (yippy), tape, your pen. not usually any "brains" (I spend the day looking where I left them)

[kimbsnrn]

how do you guys wind up with extra pens? On any given day/shift I average losing 1 or 2. Sometimes I find them later in the day, sometimes not.

So whats in my pockets?...

Alcohol wipes (usually lots), pens, highlighter, sharpie, penlight, scissors, hemostats, change, Chapstick and/or lipstick, my grandfathers WWII dogtag (he was a Navy medic and its my good luck charm), a memo pad, roll of tape, and peppermint!

Also sometimes I carry a sparkly wand or finger puppet if needed to distract a child.

[RN6699]

When I was right out of school, I used to carry everything from several scissors to extra tampax (just in case someone had a surprise from mother nature). Now, i end up having graham cracker packages (unopened because i didn't have time to eat them), plenty of alcohol pads, one nice black pen, a couple dollars and my name badge. Of course, now I am always asking the new grads if they have scissors or hemostats I can borrow! :)

[Bossbutterfly]

At the end of the average shift: In pocketprotector( we are forced to have cause the hospital 'starches/bleaches' the uniforms..I look like I've wearing a patatoe sack) : Various pen caps, minus pens they are in my pocketprotectorless pocket..caps, tape, Serax and valium : DT sufferers. Notes, homemade medication listing of North American meds and their Swiss counterparts. Bits of bread, cheese and Venti Mask adaptors that NEVER get used but the the hospital insists on recycling.

[l-andrée]

What's in my pocket?

A very lonely pen occasionnally sided by some alcohol wipes....

God, am I really that boring?????

[momrn50]

I just got home, so here is the contents of my pockets...4 quarters, 3 pens one each in black green and red, mints (or maybe they're aspirin???) alcohol wipes, reading glasses, smokes and lighter, bowel list, Mr. B's bottom dentures (I better call about that!) a q-tip, 2 bandaids and a piece of Op site...

[Ben Thair RN]

At the end of one evening shift...years ago...I had a baby turd in my right hand pocket...never-never pick them up naked! Imagine my surprise when I reached for my pocket a few minutes later!!! Pens, lighters, scissors, clamps, etc are predictable...crap is, well...crap is mushy!!

[nana kathy]

Originally posted by Ben Thair RN

At the end of one evening shift...years ago...I had a baby turd in my right hand pocket...never-never pick them up naked! Imagine my surprise when I reached for my pocket a few minutes later!!! Pens, lighters, scissors, clamps, etc are predictable...crap is, well...crap is mushy!!

LMAO .... This is Sooooooo funny.

Never had a baby turd.. or a grown-up one either.

Usually the "good" drug rep pen I own (I started putting an address label on EVERY good pen I have, so if it gets "lost" at least the borrower will feel guilty). Marlboro Ultra Lights 100, lighter (With address label), two hershey kisses, watch, stick-um note pad, flashlite, car keys, swipe pads, dura-patch wrapper, double-bubble bubble gum (3 pcs : unchewed, 2 empty wrappers), button, scissors, and lots of lint.

[niasmama]

what is in my pockets after work??? 2 pens,candy,change,paper towel with some sort of message in writing I can't read after it gets cold,someone's hearing aid(work in LTC),back to work I go) and that's on a quiet noct

[defibvt]

Sheesh, generally I have 3 pockets to choose from. Being a guy in absconded surgical scrubs, I carry red and black pen, pencil, pharmacopia, calculator, and calipers (not so much for reading stips but for self-defense against DTers. In the other pocket I carry one Kelly and in the back pocket of my liberated scrubs I carry a trauma scissors (they are great for cutting off non-iv gowns.

[NursNikNak]

Let's see...I always keep track of my pink & purple pens, so they're with me in the am, but inevitably, one of you guys has all my black ones...I've probably lost and found the narc keys a few times by now, so that's really hit or miss...I do usually end up with lancets, alcohol preps, dulcolax supps, a crushed paper med cup and some pt's vial of insulin or eyedrops...And there's always that piece of gum that's permanently at the bottom of the right front pocket of every pair of pants I wear to work b/c I'd forgotten to take it out before washing/drying my scrubs!