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.

[Horseshoe, BSN, RN]

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.

[Farawyn]

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.

Thank God you weren't attempting a TWE.

[Horseshoe, BSN, RN]

Thank God you weren't attempting a TWE.

You got that right. DH always says "don't start something you aren't willing to finish."

[Penelope_Pitstop, BSN, RN]

Like this??

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Ummm I thought this was a member.

Perhaps I need to lay off the phenergan with codeine.

[Farawyn]

Ummm I thought this was a member.

Perhaps I need to lay off the phenergan with codeine.

It's NOT???!

Kidding.

[Penelope_Pitstop, BSN, RN]

It's NOT???!

Kidding.

Sister, let me tell ya bout this dude I dated the summer after graduation...

Um.

Um.

Back to the topic at hand.

I once told future hubster "don't get out of bed by yourself, use your callbell" as I walked out of the room. Wasn't even half asleep or anything.

[tsm007]

Last time I went to the doctor's the nurse was asking me about my medications and I said "[insert medication name] prn". I didn't even hear myself say prn until she asked me if I was a nurse. I usually try to keep that to myself at my appointments.

[Lev, MSN, RN, NP]

Anybody else see bright yellow and think fall risk?

There was a strip of bright yellow across the front cover of a magazine and I thought fall risk bracelet!

[Jensmom7, BSN, RN]

Ummm I thought this was a member.

Perhaps I need to lay off the phenergan with codeine.

I have to confess, when I was looking up this meme, without thinking I Googled "nurse Media" (which is what we all call it) instead of "nurse vein memes".

O.M.G. [emoji33][emoji33][emoji33]

[Farawyn]

I have to confess, when I was looking up this meme, without thinking I Googled "nurse Media" (which is what we all call it) instead of "nurse vein memes".

O.M.G. [emoji33][emoji33][emoji33]

Really shocked that coffee wasn't the first hit.

[KThurmond]

I totally vein fiend.

I do too now that I'm a certified phlebotomist

[Kitiger, RN]

. . . When I praise someone for that good, strong cough!