you know you've been a nurse too long when ...

[amoLucia]

I had an electrical problem with that special electric socket plug near the kitchen sink (and like the one in the bathroom). You know the one with the little flip switch that's a breaker when fluids are near an elec plug.

Whenever I mentioned it to 'knowledgeable' others, they'd call it a GFI plug. They were always correcting over me when I call it a GFR plug. Like as in Ground Fault Receptacle to me. I always called it a GFR plug for as long as I remember. No. Big. Deal.

Then it hit me.

GFR = glomerular filtration rate. Never batted an eyelash. That plug was GFR to me!

... been a nurse too long!

To Mods - I know there've been similar posts, but I couldn't find them, I don't search well.

Move this if you choose.

[canoehead, BSN, RN]

I miss the laundry chutes where you could hear the full bags whizzing down at you from 5 floors up. You could easily lose an arm, but it added some excitement to my day.

[audreysmagic, RN]

I've been a psych nurse, specifically too long! My grandmother passed a couple of years ago, and one of the things I inherited was the lap quilt the hospice made her. I flipped it over to the backside one day not long after getting it, by chance, and finally noticed the personalized note - made out to her name, "from SI Hospice." SI, to me, is always "suicidal ideation" and I started laughing really inappropriately at those connotations. (The next day, I found out it was Seasons International or something innocent like that.) Then again, my grandmother had a dark sense of humor sometimes, so I think she'd find it funny.