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

GiantJerk · Sep 5, 2011

Every day I end up with a pocket full of alcohol wipes, cotton balls, band-aids, empty blood tubes, butterfly needles, and stuff like that. I keep a box in my locker to put it in to use at my next shift.

diva rn, BSN, RN · Sep 5, 2011

Artificial tears...

Depending on the shift...I have REAL TEARS! :crying2:

joanna73, BSN, RN · Sep 5, 2011

Adhesive remover wipes, bandage scissors, pens, bobby pins (for my hair), gauze. I dump them into my work bag and restock before I start my next shift.

Poi Dog · Sep 5, 2011

Depending on the shift...I have REAL TEARS!

True dat :smokin:

Bound&DeterminedRN · Sep 5, 2011

This is bad...insulin pens, metoprolol, colase, and work phone. Hey it could have been worse some people have been known to keep the narc/pca keys and live 2 hours from the hospital and have to come right back! That ususally happens on a bad day when you dont think about checking your pockets and you are just trying to get the hell out of there!

mercurysmom · Sep 5, 2011

This is a great thread! :lol2:

Jogged my memory...many moons ago when I worked as a NA, I went home with an entire strip of denture tablets in my pants pocket, and didn't discover them until they were in the washer...

You know what one denture tablet does, multiply it by 10. :uhoh3:

And, I lived at home at the time and Mom was the one who discovered the " Maytag volcano!"

25+ years later, though, I can look back and laugh! :lol2:

mm

Ruby Vee, BSN · Sep 5, 2011

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.

i've done that with the narcotic keys. now it's pca keys. we only have one, so if i go home with it, those 5 or 6 pca patients are sol! it's an hour to get back to work . . . . i also brought home the charge nurse pager once. brought it back the next day and snuck it into the nurse's station . . . but no one even noticed it was missing!

nola1202 · Sep 5, 2011

this is fun, I checked mine before I left work, Tubigrip, leftover roll of kerlex, mepilex ag, tegaderm, mefix tape, sissors. 3 pens, a highlighter, a sharpie (not mine. One of the pens (not mine) alcohol swabs, skin prep. a stray lint specked jolly rancher (apple) a couple of notes, a stray memo. A very outdated census sheet. a tube of blistek, little packets of bacitracin, a very wrinkled but still sealed bandaid. one or two teenie tiny dog bones (cause sometimes pooches come to visit family members. the humans get cookies, so they should too. One kleenex (clean thank you for asking!) and pocket lint.

yousoldtheworld · Sep 5, 2011

Two days ago, I came home with a resident's glasses, a piece of string cheese, 3 pens that weren't mine, and a toddler telephone toy in my pocket.

Callisonanne · Sep 6, 2011

In nursing school we always had to keep the empty vial with the syringe if we drew up a med because the instructor said that way you can be sure you have the right med. As you can guess I got home one day and found an empty vial that had lasix in it. The look on my parents face was priceless until I explained it.

JeneraterRN · Sep 6, 2011

I think we could combine a lot of these pocket finds into a twisted version of the Twelve Days of Christmas. Just imagine the ending..."and my neck had a giant loogeeeeeeeee!"

nola1202 · Sep 6, 2011

Nothing really fun but I can tell you what I found in my shoes after my shift

welll we're waiting, what did you find in your shoes at the end of your shift?