Scissors

Published

Scissors are a common item used by nurses. We carry them in our pockets and use them frequently. My question is: What exactly do you use them for?

Originally posted by l.rae

......once trimmed my bangs with them.....

Ya know, I used them once to trim up some pieces of hair I thought should be shorter! (dontcha just love bad hair days!) They are quite good for this!

Seriously, there are basically only 2 things I ever use them for, those long tails of the ID bands and cutting steri strips in half.

Heather

Up Vote Up Vote ×

I got to use mine a couple of times for bandages and such but every time I lent them out they never came back, no ransom note or anything. Sad to say that now I am a borrower. They should sell this kind of stuff at the allnurses.com store :)

Up Vote Up Vote ×

I have had three pairs of bandage scissors stolen from me in the last 2 years. What's that about? Come on get your own!

Up Vote Up Vote ×

no i don't cut up charting from the actual charts - just my notes and practice chartings I do on scrap which i find the need to do 5 times before i can actually put in NN

Up Vote Up Vote ×

Practice chartings???

Is that for real?

-Russell

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in ER.

I stopped buying bandage scissors because they were too expensive and always walked away. Now I buy the childrens blunt tip scissors for 3-4 dollars each that work just as well and are less of a pain to replace.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Med/Surg, Geriatrics.
Originally posted by coleen

no i don't cut up charting from the actual charts - just my notes and practice chartings I do on scrap which i find the need to do 5 times before i can actually put in NN

Get outta here! :eek: When in the heck do you have time to do practice charting? And 5 times? Why do you have to rewrite it, what's wrong with the original? I'm genuinely curious here.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Critical Care.

I use them to cut off ID bands that are too tight!!! my personal pet peve. Some are so tight they are like tourniquets.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Med-Surg Nursing.
Originally posted by caroladybelle

I use mine to cut off the @#$$% ends left on the ID band we put on the patient that is left sticking out and annoying them.

That is primarily what I use my bandage scissors for! But I have been known to use them for opening unit dose pill packages that the manufacturers have made Nurseproof!!! I use em to cut paper too! I always wipe with an alcohol pad before and after use as well to keep the germies at bay!

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Originally posted by Rustyhammer

Practice chartings???

Is that for real?

-Russell

:rotfl: Sometimes I'm scurrying around to finish my original charting, let alone PRACTICE it 5 times!

Heather

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

what is practice charting? even in nursing school, that did not exist. i want the time to CHART FOR REAL, let alone "practice"...

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Cardiolgy.

5 times???:eek: I have done a few practice copies, with made up pt's at home, I have never had time on the ward, and I have never tried 5 times in a row!!

But back to scissors; I use mine lots, I am lost without them, at Christmas I was making paper spirals with them, to help decorate the Christmas tree

:lol2: Although I have used a lot of alcohol on them, My scissors are very happy, even if they do some to run off quite often.:chuckle

Up Vote Up Vote ×
+ Join the Discussion