What has ended up in your pockets?

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So I got home today and found stuff in my pockets that I didn't walk in with. Which made me think.. what have you found in your pockets when you got home?

Me-

a pulse ox thing, the refridgerator lock, tape, scissors, and omg once the narcotic key.( I ran right back for that one lol)

While in nursing school the only way students could get supplies or get into the med room was to borrow a key from one of the nurses on the floor... Needless to say I had to drive the 30 miles back to the hospital very early the next morning to make sure that nurse had his keys back before he took report.

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Specializes in ER, TRAUMA, MED-SURG.
When alcohol wipes go through the dryer, they puff up like little pillows. :yeah:

Oh, yeah! Thay make a mess if not found in time.

Anne, RNC

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Same here, I had about 50 in my pocket one day!

I don't know what it is about alcohol preps, but no matter how hard I try to get them out of all my pockets, some always manage to end up stuck on the inside of my washer.

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Specializes in Mom/Baby.

I have found alcohol prep pads, empty medication blister packs, a whole small jar of sublingual NTG (OOPS!), paper towels with vitals written all over them...

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Specializes in Med/Surg, DSU, Ortho, Onc, Psych.
When alcohol wipes go through the dryer, they puff up like little pillows. :yeah:

That is interesting to know, I'll have to try it one day! Cheers.

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Specializes in LTC, Acute Care.

When I worked briefly in dialysis I would bring home unopened syringes, needles, occasionally a 10cc flush, tape, and numerous alcohol swabs. I often joked to my husband that one day I might eventually come home with a dialysis machine in my trunk...........lol. Talk about bringing your work home with you.

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I can't list all the stuff I've come home with, but definitely the usual suspects (tape, alcohol swabs). The last place I worked had a patient alarm on the narc keys, the kind of alarms the alz patients wear. So, you couldn't leave the building with the keys. It was a great idea in theory, but it was so sensitive that every time we walked past a door, the alarm would go off.

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Specializes in multispecialty ICU, SICU including CV.
A roll of surgical tape, which ended up in the washing machine, which cost me a hundred bucks.

Two vicodins, which I found two days after the fact, while I was doing laundry. Oops. Thankfully, they were still wrapped.

Done that. Took home two percocets once (patient decided he didn't want them after all) and a pre-filled syringe of ativan (I decided my vented patient didn't need it after all.) Returned them the next day but felt like a damn fool.

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