Habits you picked up from work...

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What are some of the habits that you pick up from work?

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I work on a locked unit so I catch myself reaching for keys as I open doors in my own house!

I have done the check/credit card "RN" thing (I bet we all have! I mean you only sign your name that way a billion times in just one shift! How could it not become automatic?)

And the kids know... they are prepared... that when they ask me, "Mom, what is diabetes?" or (thanks to TV commercials) "Mom, what's a catheter. What are they talking about?"... they know to grab a pillow and get comfy because it's Teachin' Time. I can't help it, though! :roflmao: I'm crazy like that!

One last thing, I do hospital corners on my own bed.

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Whenever anyone comes around me, unbeknownst to them, they've just received a head to toe assessment!

I do this too! I also STARE at veins. On family or strangers in the grocery lineup, if you've got one visible, it's ALL I CAN DO to not reach over and palpate that baby!

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Specializes in Critical Care, Telemetry, CCU, PCU.

Not a habit, but do we all have a "nurse" sign on our foreheads? Why do complete strangers approach us talking about their medical problems or asking 'What's good for...?'.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Telemetry, CCU, PCU.

Don't we all critique the medical senarios on tv shows or in the movies? (Why is everyone always yelling "STAT!"? Why is the ETT never taped? Why aren't the sidrails up?) I drive my family up the walls with that!

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Specializes in PACU, pre/postoperative, ortho.

Hitting F4 to log myself out of my computer at home.

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Checking out veins of strangers...yup! And I can't watch medical shows anymore...too much critiquing of the errors they make!

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Specializes in Medical-Surgical, Supervisory, HEDIS, IT.

I sometimes make my bed with mitered corners......That's it so far...

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Specializes in Medical Surgical.

Thinking most of the people I see out in WalMart are fall risks and grading them as to that risk. Tensing up when I see someone start to cough because I expect them to aim straight at me and I will have to jump back. Letting the phone at home ring and ring without answering it...just because I can.

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Specializes in Med-Surg-Onc.

I find myself eyeballing people's veins... especially the big muscular guys. I want to put at #16 right in those juicy arms.

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If I need a couple of asprin, I don't just grab a couple out of the bottle.

I have to hold up the bottle and make sure I read the label to double check.

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

My two big habits are ...

1. Signing RN after my name on checks and restaurant receipts.

2. Waking up from a sound sleep and while I'm still half-asleep I'm asking my GF who is covering my patients or if I gave handoff report.

Obviously I tend to do the RN signature thing more often but I've woken up in a panic more than once thinking that I am still in the hospital.

!Chris :specs:

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Specializes in LTC,Hospice/palliative care,acute care.

Using my "med surg strut " when I'm off duty-my poor husband is always telling me to slow down,we are not running to a code at the grocery store. And lists-I was never so organized until I became an LPN.I am so used to writing out my lists at work that I can't get any thing accomplished at home without writing a list and crossing off each task as I go.

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