What have you found in your pockets at the end of your shift?

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-A barrette

-A hearing aid

-numerous pens

-alcohol wipes

-a bottle of shaving gel

-a lighter

-couple pairs of gloves

-spoons

-forks

-a cigarette :smokin:

-piece of paper with a number that I have no idea who/what it was to

Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.

I apparently have boring pockets.

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Specializes in Acute Mental Health.

I found lancets, retractable needles, sweet n low packets (which I never use), a suppository, the last of my snack I snuck while charting, everyone's pen but mine, and alcohol wipes.

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Specializes in Early Intervention, Nsg. Education.
Once, and only once, I went home w/ the med keys. This was in the days before cell phones and I lived about 45 minutes from work. When I walked in the door that morning the phone was ringing. Turned around and went back to return the keys. :banghead:

Same thing happened to me. 45 minute drive home after an 8 hour shift plus 4 hours of mandatory overtime, arrived home and the phone was ringing....:smackingf I cried the entire ride there, and muttered swear words the entire ride home. :doh:

mm

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Specializes in OB, Med/Surg, Ortho, ICU.

Occasionally, I'll run off with an Advair inhaler, but mostly it's the normal swabs, NS flushes, tele buttons. Consequently, tele buttons turn into super glue in the dryer. The worst probably wasn't in my pocket. I had been suctioning a patient that had thick, stringy mucous out of his NT cavity. When I got home, I started rubbing my neck and found a present. He must have deposited when he gave the one good cough after I cleared (at least I thought I cleared) his airway.

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Specializes in Hospice.

lol i've found numerous pens, a nasal swab, an empty flu shot that was prefilled (during flu shot season..ugh it's the worst lol), qtips, tongue blades, and a little kid left his frog toy and i guess i put it in my pocket :D

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Specializes in Acute Mental Health.
Occasionally, I'll run off with an Advair inhaler, but mostly it's the normal swabs, NS flushes, tele buttons. Consequently, tele buttons turn into super glue in the dryer. The worst probably wasn't in my pocket. I had been suctioning a patient that had thick, stringy mucous out of his NT cavity. When I got home, I started rubbing my neck and found a present. He must have deposited when he gave the one good cough after I cleared (at least I thought I cleared) his airway.

EWWWWEEEEEE!!!!!

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Specializes in LTC, Psych, Hospice.
Occasionally, I'll run off with an Advair inhaler, but mostly it's the normal swabs, NS flushes, tele buttons. Consequently, tele buttons turn into super glue in the dryer. The worst probably wasn't in my pocket. I had been suctioning a patient that had thick, stringy mucous out of his NT cavity. When I got home, I started rubbing my neck and found a present. He must have deposited when he gave the one good cough after I cleared (at least I thought I cleared) his airway.

:smackingf Oh! Yucky!

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Occasionally, I'll run off with an Advair inhaler, but mostly it's the normal swabs, NS flushes, tele buttons. Consequently, tele buttons turn into super glue in the dryer. The worst probably wasn't in my pocket. I had been suctioning a patient that had thick, stringy mucous out of his NT cavity. When I got home, I started rubbing my neck and found a present. He must have deposited when he gave the one good cough after I cleared (at least I thought I cleared) his airway.

:barf02::barf02: I think I would have carved that part of my neck off.

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Whenever I work in LTC I always seem to find a laxative that someone has refused

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Whenever I work in LTC I always seem to find a laxative that someone has refused

Well that is certainly a disappointing find :lol2:

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If they did that to us the entire staff would be in employee health too often to count. It was a busy ER it just happened. Plus we had random drug testing so you would eventually get busted. Fortunately my reputation fostered a lot of trust with tptb. I would have tested clean!

Off topic but I work in palliative, where ativan get's past out like skittles. It always makes me think twice when ativan gets talked about as a controlled substance. I know they do lock it up in my hosp emerg too. I could easily walk out with ativan in my pocket, don't think I have though. It rates a 0 on a narc scale compared to the other goodies we got.:lol2:

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Gauze, gauze all types of gauze.

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