What is in your pockets at shifts end?

[Chuckie]

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[Jeanie]

When I empty my pockets I usually have the bandage scissors, list of vital signs for the day, the bath list, individually wrapped life savers that I give to my patients for taking their medications crushed in applesauce, (just a little bribe) usually always a pair of rubber gloves, and packets of A and D ointment. I am a firm believer in that and everyone gets it.

[nana kathy]

Sheesh, defibvt, you just have to know HOW to fill your pockets, I'll bet you could get more in yours too, LOL

I only have 3 scrub pockets too, and at any given moment you'd think they will tear out, but they don't.

[KIWIRN]

2 pens (I'm sure i started with 3!) , 2 cards of paracetamol, with some missing, 3 loose paracetamol, id card, very blunt sissors, watch, 2 rolls of tape, laminated waterlow scale that has seen better days, opsite dressing, cotton wool swabs, 7 alcohol swabs(1 open) TWO lipsticks??(I never wear them!), a torn iv label, report sheet, 1 rubber glove, 1 small brown tablet (probably a laxitive), empty saline 10ml, 3 needle caps, two barley sugars from a patient who INSISTED i have them (I must have looked like i needed them), 1 blue tab from IVF. Keys. a discharge check list (i'd better file that tomorrow!)

its no wonder i trip over i can't even see my toes with all this stuff in my pockets:(

this thread is fun!

[Darryl Johnson]

In my pockets are my donger keys, some Mt Gordon red dirt, scissors, tape and tic tacs.

[MarnnaRN]

Ever leave with the docusate in your pocket that the patient refused? I have, more than once.:)

[CVSDnurse]

2 pens( my own big round bics or it would be all the generic black pens that I see 'cause they all look like mine when I was using them) forceps and hopefully my scissors and of course about 25 alcohol pads. I Also found that taking my own pencil bag with my needed assorment of dry erase markers, permanet markers, calipers, carpujects, highlighters, vacutainers and penlight keep my locker from getting too full and save scrambling time when I need stuff.

[bungies]

Funny how everyone has the same collection of junk. I have 4 alco wipes, watch, $1.15 in change (that's Australian dollars, so it weighs more than it's worth...) two pens, ID with drip rates and blood count ranges attached (I'm a new grad - they're my security). I also have one glove which would be clean if it didn't have pen marks all over it... I *never* have scissors, even if I start the day with them. I usually find them the next day, then they vanish again halfway through the shift.

[picu75rn]

What a fun post. Let's see, yesterday I had a pacifer, butterfly, fun bandaids, tube of desitn, 4 pens- I am the one who always walks off with someone's, alchol wipes and a tenderheel.

[stevie b]

This is a fun thread. Whats in my pockets?2 blunt 3 cc syringes(unopend),the bottle of saline to go with them,half an awful adkins advantage bar laced with lint,paper towels with v/s written on them,marlboro lights and a lighter that probably dosnt work.Its like left overs from a yard sale! oh, and one time i brought the small pulse ox home.oops.:)

[babynurselsa, RN]

Originally posted by night owl

Well I just got home and am sitting down at this computer with a bowl of raisen bran. In my pockets I have...2-allnurses.com pens,

Hey I want some ALLNURSES.COM PENS!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nana kathy]

FREE PENS? !! Where do I sign up? Did someone say Pens from allnurses.com ? You could start a riot on these BB and Threads....

[Momma_Penguin]

I saw this and it made me take notice of how much stuff I bring home each morning. I had in my lab coat this am.....10 alcohol swabs, 2 unused lancets, blue pen ,black pen, 1 pen I found and I'm not giving back( it's nice!) 2 pr of gloves. In my scrub pants pockets......waay more room for stuff... I had 1 pr hemostats, 1 pr bandage scissors, change, yellow post it notes w/ avon orders....hehehe I sell it between charting...tape, br tx single dose pkg, lip balm,1 pkg allergy pills I forgot to take to keep my eyes from running. I could go on..but I am glad to see that I am not the only one who brings home "stuff". :cool: