What's in your pockets?

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.

My co-workers laugh at me in a good natured way, because I look like a tool belt. My pockets are bulging with 'stuff'. Guess who they come to though, when they need something and they see me down the hall? :D

In my right pocket (yes, I'm anal, lol) is my pocket protector. It has two pockets. One has some change for the vending machine, and the others have my pens. One multi-colored pen and one blue pen that I can hand over to families if they need to sign something. Alcohol swabs, a sterile 2x2, op-site, 2 claves, and some sterile caps. My handy 3:1 tool and my scissors.

Left pocket contains lipstick (must look beautiful while under stress:p) monies for lunch (if I get one) and my key to my locker.

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Specializes in Surgical/MedSurg/Oncology/Hospice.

I'm a pocket-stuffer too...I wear 4-pocket scrub tops (two on each side) and pants with two cargo pockets on the right and one on the left.

Right-hand shirt pocket: two pens, dry erase marker, scissors and patients sheets.

Lower right-hand shirt pocket: alcohol swabs, sterile caps and cough drops.

Left-hand shirt pocket: tape, yellow hi-lighter, black sharpie marker, sterile 2x2's and a spare secondary IV line set.

Lower left-hand shirt pocket: 2 or 3 clave connectors, day-of-the-week label stickers for IV lines, safety pins (for JP drains).

Upper cargo pocket on right leg: Spectra link phone.

Lower cargo pocket on right leg: multiple 5ml saline flushes.

Left cargo leg pocket: couple of 10ml saline flushes, two or three 18g 3cc needles, two or three insulin syringes.

Back pocket of my pants: cell phone and cash.

I'm so dependant on everything being in its specific place that I have to stick to the same style scrubs or I can't find anything! I love my scrubs, got them from UniformAdvantage.com...'Butter Soft' scrubs :D

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.

One shirt pocket has a pair of rubber gloves; the other has lip balm. In my pants pockets is usually some money for the vending machine, paper with today's notes on it, and my cell phone/PDA. Pen(s) are usually clipped to my shirt collar...though occasionally one finds its way into a pocket.

We travel light in psych :)

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Specializes in Emergency, Critical Care (CEN, CCRN).

Inside badge holder: $20 and Starbucks Card.

Left breast pocket: Penlight, pens x2, op-site marker, lip balm.

Rear pocket: Report sheets, trauma shears.

1st thigh cargo pocket: Palm PDA.

2nd thigh cargo pocket: Alcohol swabs, 2x2s, tourniquet, mini-Chlorapreps, Tegaderms, butterfly kit (23ga butterfly, Vacutainer adapter), IV kit (20ga angio, 10 mL flush, lock and tape).

Waist clip: SpectraLink.

Around neck: Stethoscope.

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Right pocket-3 pens (yes, 3). Alcohol packet,, 2 sterile caps, 2 sterile claves, 1 sterile 2x2. Left pocket-hemostat, scissors, one roll of tape for misc purposes. Left pants pocket-any medication I may be needing to take. Right pants pocket-money for lunch. By the end of the day I usually have more, but that's what I start with each morning. My flashlight hangs with my ID badge.

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Specializes in Emergency Department.

Wow,that's a lot of stuff!

I carry 2 pens, trauma scissors, my phone. Maybe a dollar for a diet coke at 1 am. Can't imagine carrying anything more. Cant do CPR with a pocket full of stuff. Everything else I need is in the room, tape,gloves etc.

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.

Oh yes flushes. Left lower cargo pocket. I keep safety pins on my pocket protector.

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Specializes in LTC.

cordless phone

pens

pulse ox

abt ointment

keys

paper to jot things down

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Specializes in Med Surg.

I am willing to pay for Aviator scrubs for one reason - POCKETS!

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Specializes in Operating Room, Ortho, Neuro, Trauma.

I work in the OR and everyone always makes fun of me for what I keep in my pockets but who do you think they come to over and over :jester:

I wear a scrub jacket with 2 pockets. Left pocket has extra mastisol, duraprep remover, medication labels, blank note cards, telfa teggys, several packs of gums-different flavors, a bottle of hand sanitizer (in case a dispenser is out) and usually by the end of the shift I have some suture and other things. The right pocket has 10-12 pens perfectly lined across my pocket. As soon as we get the patient in the room and we have to start "circulating" the jacket comes off. So, I have a scrub top with 2 pockets---the left pocket has 10-12 pens perfectly lined across my pocket. The The right pocket has my phone, a baggy of cough drops, jolly ranchers, mints and cinnamon disks. My cargo pants have 5-6 different colored dry eraser markers, highliter and 2 pair of scissors. They make fun of me but always come running to me for stuff!:clown:

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Specializes in LTC.

I put stuff in my pockets of my scrub top. Never the pants. I don't know why lol

pens, sharpie, cell phone(i dont text im too busy lol), med cart keys(sometimes two sets if i have to do both carts), hand lotion, chapstick.

Things also migrate into my pocket as the night goes on.

...insulin vials, eyedrops that i forget to put back in the cart, the plastic vial that nebulizer treatments come in, tape, the accucheck machine, extra finger lancets and strips,

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Specializes in CCU MICU Rapid Response.

Ooh. I am sorta anal too. Ok for me, right pocket I have alky swabs, chap stick

left pocket, 2 pens, one hiliter. Right pant pocket (thigh) scissors, and the "cheater book" aka notebook with all the extensions, and pagers and other goofy stuff I need to know. Left pant pocket (thigh) phone. As one other poster said, hafta travel lite, and most of the things I need are at the bedside in the ICU. :) Ivanna

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