Oops! I always go home with...

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What's the most common, weirdest, funniest things you always forget to take out of your pocket before you leave and end up going home with?

Me, I aalways go home with a floor supply of alcohol pads and gauze. The other night I went home with a blood draw set, complete with needle, tourniquet AND red top lol. How did I not feel that?!

Specializes in geriatrics, IV, Nurse management.

alcohol swabs, gloves, pens, tape (a lot of tape... opps), tegaderm, scrap paper, paper clips, and my pager (one happened once... thank goodness only once - the drive back when tired... ugh).

The oddest thing I took home? I went home after a long shift, was emptying my pockets to throw my uniform in the wash again (another long stretch was coming up) and pulled out.... premarin cream. :yuck: Just the ointment and not the applicator. Thank goodness!

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When I empty my pickpocket it's normally got 2-3 sleeves of panadol, empty unused syringes, saline flushes, micropore, penlight neuro torch, 5-6pairs of gloves on any given day

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Specializes in Pediatrics/Developmental Pediatrics/Research/psych.
I've gone home with a whole container of glucose strips cans of shaving cream, and the usual alcohol pads, flushes, gloves. I also compulsively stick vial lids in my pockets and have a collection going. I don't know what I'll do with them.[/quote']

A lot of nurses have been decorating badge reels with them. Flower, butterfly, owl... All the colors and sizes allow you a lot of options. In fact, one hospital has a container on every unit and even in the pharmacy to collect them.

Often they are sold to collect for a charity. For example, on oncology they collect for ACA or on cardiovascular, AHA

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Empty your pockets into the nurse that takes over your group. Saves the company money! I was bad about nitro bottles and flushes.

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

FOUR TIMES I have taken home my Spectralink phone. I blame my cargo pants- they have a pocket WAY down on the leg, so I don't feel the phone when I sit down.

Sheesh.......

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pill wrappers and pens!

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.
FOUR TIMES I have taken home my Spectralink phone. I blame my cargo pants- they have a pocket WAY down on the leg, so I don't feel the phone when I sit down.

Sheesh.......

Aaaaannnd..... make that FIVE times!

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Aaaaannnd..... make that FIVE times!

hahaha maybe next week it'll be six times?haha

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Specializes in adult psych, LTC/SNF, child psych.

Glucometer strips, alcohol pads and gloves. I've taken enough gloves home enough in the past month to likely account for a whole box of gloves!

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Specializes in Neuro ICU and Med Surg.

I haven't taken anything home in a long time. Usually it was alcohol swabs, IV catheters, and stuff like that. Never took the phone or pager home and hope I never ever do.

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Love it when you throw some individual lube packets in your pocket and they fall out when searching for change at the coffee shop.

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Specializes in Going to Peds!.

Rolls of tape.

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