What do you carry your gear to clinicals in?

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Right now my gear is just loose in my backpack, the last thing I want to do is jack it up. Have you found a safer, better way to carry it? Do they make bags just for BP cuff, stethoscope, pen light, ect?

My school provided a small bag that resembles a toiletry makeup bag. It carries my BP cuff, stethoscope, pen light and any small supplies. It resembles this:

Contents Cosmetic Clutch Bag : Target

I plan on carrying it in a larger bag that will also have my snack, small bottle of water, notebook and hand sanitizer.

I used a bag originally designed to be a laptop carrier. It had little pockets on the inside that were perfect for housing my pen lights, ink pens, and little spiral notebook I kept notes in. There was a zipper compartment in the middle where I kept my clinical/lab/drug books. I just threw my stethoscope in the other pocket. I never had an issue with my stuff getting messed up or broken.

Specializes in Neonatal Nurse Practitioner.

I don't even bring a bag. I keep my stethoscope, penlight, watch, and pens in my car. I only bring a lunch bag and a clipboard. Everything else is in my pockets or in my clipboard. We're not allowed to use outside BP cuffs (or other equipment) in the hospital.

I also don't bring a bag to work. I walk in with myself, my badge, and a pen. Sometimes I bring lunch.

I have a little toiletry-type bag that I carry things in like measuring tape, calculator, wound chart thingy (the technical tern evades me...the clear thing to measure wound size), and a few other odds and ends like caps for IV tubing. Then I got a pocket organizer (that looks like a glorified pocket protector :)) that I carry my hemostats, penlight, pens, my own dry erase marker (because the rooms never have them to write on the patient's boards!) and bandage scissors in. I just got a cover/protector for the diaphragm end of my stethoscope so I don't have to worry about messing that up. Everything is small enough to fit into the pockets on my scrub top so that's what works for me :)

I'm not in clinicals yet but I plan to use a bag that I'm buying through 31 gifts...it's a tote

Plastic sack or pockets

Specializes in Forensic Psych.

Clipboard. I keep my stethoscope, penlight, pens, iPad, and papers in my clipboard, and my debit card in my name badge holder, scissors in my pocket.

I don't know about y'all's site, but we don't bring BP cuffs, and we don't get lockers. More stuff left in the break room = more stuff to get stolen.

Clipboard. I keep my stethoscope, penlight, pens, iPad, and papers in my clipboard, and my debit card in my name badge holder, scissors in my pocket.

I don't know about y'all's site, but we don't bring BP cuffs, and we don't get lockers. More stuff left in the break room = more stuff to get stolen.

Stuff gets stolen all the time, Lord knows why these people want to bring all this gear. With a lot of hospitals they have hand sanitizer EVERYWHERE and cheap stethoscopes lying around that you can use (obv sterilize first). Seriously just bring some pens (they disappear a lot), shift sheet, lunch and maybe a stethoscope and you are golden. Just throw your lunch in a plastic sack and label it with a sticky note.

Too easy, anything else you need the floor has. When I was in the ED I acquired probably 20 trauma shears over time :laugh:

Specializes in Pedi.

What kind of hospitals are you all doing clinicals in that you need to BRING your own BP cuff? What on earth? Every hospital that I did clinicals at had automated BP cuffs attached to every monitor at every bedside.

Specializes in Forensic Psych.
What kind of hospitals are you all doing clinicals in that you need to BRING your own BP cuff? What on earth? Every hospital that I did clinicals at had automated BP cuffs attached to every monitor at every bedside.

I know. The thought grosses me out.

Specializes in Neonatal Nurse Practitioner.

Glad to know I'm not the only one who just brings the minimum to clinical.

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