You know your nurse brain is still at work when....

[EmpathyInAction]

You see a curved tube from a broken shampoo pump on the floor and your first thought is "Why is that trach tube on the floor??"

Feel free to add your own.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

When you sign your check or credit card slip with "R. Vee, RN."

When you "give report" on a hospitalized relative to the next shift.

When you and your spouse do a "shift change report" in the parking garage as he's headed home and you're headed to work (or vice versa.) "The dog ate, pooped and peeded. He's had one walk but he needs another. There's leftover lasagne in the fridge for you to heat up and the stuff you ordered from Amazon is on the dining room table."

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

Sometimes I knock on doors before entering rooms in my own house!

If you have teenagers or young adults living with you, that's probably safest.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

DH said one night I was waving my arms above my head in my sleep. He said "What are you doing?" He swears I answered "hanging a piggy back."

Good grief.

That's not half bad.

I once woke up with my ex-husband looming over me, shoving his finger up my nose. I screeched "What the HELL are you doing?"

"Inserting an NG," was the answer. My ex- was an RN.

[Horseshoe, BSN, RN]

That's not half bad.

I once woke up with my ex-husband looming over me, shoving his finger up my nose. I screeched "What the HELL are you doing?"

"Inserting an NG," was the answer. My ex- was an RN.

Lol, he's lucky he woke up with all ten of his fingers!

[Labmom1118]

When you're in the middle of "happy time" with your SO and start doing a discrete skin check because...was that mole there last time?? [emoji33]

My husband is so stubborn. I had been watching a mole for a while because I never liked the look of it and, after it started bleeding, it was still a few months before I could make him put his health before work. It was no surprise that it was melanoma. But "I told you so" isn't satisfying when you wish you had been wrong. Thankfully it hadn't spread to his lymph nodes.

[Loracs72]

Have done that too !

[Spiker, ASN, RN, EMT-P]

You pass a knife at the dinner table like a scalpel[emoji40]

Not only do I pass a knife like a scalpel, I sometimes USE it like a scalpel when I'm not thinking! That's 34 years of OR nursing.....

[TXMedPsych, BSN, RN]

I am all about answering personal cell as if at work, especially if I was charging most recently.

[Loracs72]

It's not a bad idea. People who dig stuff out of the trash would have your name and address if you had not blackened out the info.

[Horseshoe, BSN, RN]

My husband is so stubborn. I had been watching a mole for a while because I never liked the look of it and, after it started bleeding, it was still a few months before I could make him put his health before work. It was no surprise that it was melanoma. But "I told you so" isn't satisfying when you wish you had been wrong. Thankfully it hadn't spread to his lymph nodes.

I sure get that. My DH didn't listen to me about getting his colonoscopy when he was supposed to (at 40 due to family history). No satisfaction at all in hearing his doc tell me he had stage III colon cancer that would have been caught if he'd come in 7 years before as recommended.

Thank God he survived it. 8.5 years later, he's fine. Glad your DH is also doing well.

[sylv414]

I know I must still be at work when I write a check and sign it L*** S******** LPN

[ShaneTeam]

Lol. I am just happy to know I am not the only one who puts their title down after their name. I always thought it was senility setting in. :)