What's in your pocket(s)?

[AllieSparksRN]

just for fun.............

if i walked up to you two hours into your shift and asked you to empty your pockets onto the table, what would we see?

what type of unit do you work in?

i'm curious what nurses have on them at all times.

thanks!

[pinkiepie_RN]

Alcohol pads, a sharpie, a red pen, a black pen, change, patient census list, report sheet, brains for on-coming shift report, lip gloss/chapstick, my cell phone and change. Hoorah for scrub tops with pockets and pants with cargo pockets too. I never have enough space in my pockets when I go to work in business casual.

I work on a short stay adult inpatient psych unit.

[~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN]

Forgot about my chapstick, I found the best kind ever and so I keep a few tubes around just in case.

[NurseKatie08, MSN]

Keys to my med cart, pocket sized pulse oximeter, pens, sharpie, alcohol wipes...not too much...i pretty much keep my med cart stocked with what I'd need. Occasionally you might find an alcohol wipe or 4x4 with wound measurements on it

I work 3-11pm on a subacute rehab unit.

[KirriG]

A handful of gloves, a pen, a piece of paper with the shift's showers on it (and probably by 2 hours into the shift, little notations next to names with bowel status) and the key to my locker.

Assistant nurse in nursing home.

[Imafloat, BSN, RN]

just for fun.............

if i walked up to you two hours into your shift and asked you to empty your pockets onto the table, what would we see?

what type of unit do you work in?

i'm curious what nurses have on them at all times.

thanks!

chap stick, pen, gum.

i work in a nicu, each patient has their own scissors, etc...so there is no need for me to carry them.

[Angel@MyTable, RN]

I was a CNA for over 15 years and always kept chapstick, breath mints/gum, pen, pt. care list with VS and completed tasks, and some change/cash for snacks/soda.

As an RN student (graduate May 2010 WOOT), I keep my scope (drives me crazy around my neck), gum/mints, chapstick, pen, penlight, watch, my time management sheet (at my school we are required by our clinical instructors to fill one out before we care for our pts each day) with pt VS/tasks to be completed, etc., cash/change for snacks/soda. Yes, I have VERY full pockets!!

[imaRN08]

tape, pen, perm marker, dry erase marker, chapstick, alcohol wipes, tubex, scissors, sterile caps for locking off IV's, 2x2s, tegaderms, and saline flushes. I think thats about it!!

[Tait, MSN, RN]

Complex cardiac/GI med-surg

alcohol swabs

one pen

one dry erase marker

occasionally tape (though I strategically hide them all over the unit for quick grab)

IV caps

Everything else hangs out in my loving dubbed "little green schoolbox"

Tait

[Angel@MyTable, RN]

tape, pen, perm marker, dry erase marker, chapstick, alcohol wipes, tubex, scissors, sterile caps for locking off IV's, 2x2s, tegaderms, and saline flushes. I think thats about it!!

OOPS! I forgot as a student I also carry sterile caps, alcohol wipes too! :chuckle

[soulofme]

RN, Dialysis Unit

many pens that I have "lifted" from my co-workers

peppermints

tape

car keys

[Calibean]

School Nurse (multiple sites)

In purse/car

Paperwork (lots of emergency care plans and sign off sheets)

Epipen trainer

Glucagon (for training)

Pen light

Stethoscope

Pens

Work Emergency Cell

Measuring tape (for vision screens)

Audiometer

Vision Equipment

Scoliometer (sometimes)

Medical Insurance Info (to give parents)

Personal cell with internet for those questions you don't have the answer to when you are on the road.

[husker_rn, RN]

Just checked; pen, brain, IV tip covers, alcohol wipes, 10 cc flushes, sharpee, scissors. Oh and the usual tape and extra pair of gloves just in case. And I travel light compared to some.