What's in your pockets?

[tokmom, BSN, RN]

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?

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.

[NBMom1225]

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

[Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN]

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 :)

[murphyle, BSN, RN]

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.

[Ellekat]

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.

[robinzkj]

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.

[tokmom, BSN, RN]

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

[NurseLoveJoy88, ASN, RN]

cordless phone

pens

pulse ox

abt ointment

keys

paper to jot things down

[belgarion]

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

[cornpoohRN]

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

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!

[Forever Sunshine, ASN, RN]

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,

[Ivanna_Nurse, BSN, RN]

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