You know you've been a nurse too long when...

[wooh]

You know you've been a nurse too long when you can't enjoy a movie because of the half minute of CPR compressions only being given at about 50 per minute, with bent arms and there's a flat line on the monitor DURING the compressions. Oh, and it's the obstetrician doing the compressions.

[rnccf2007, BSN, RN]

You know you have been a nurse too long, when one of parents deck you and you can't get up off the floor.

[Christy1019, ASN, RN]

When your phone autocorrects the name Gina to gonadotropin lol! Not that I ever remember using that word in text, lol!

[rnccf2007, BSN, RN]

You know you have been a nurse too long, when one of parents deck you and you can't get up off the floor.

LO, sorry, meant patients.

[rnccf2007, BSN, RN]

When you have heard about this phenomenon; but now you actually hear calls lights, tele monitors, IV pump beeps, bed alarms, vent monitors, etc...when your alarm clock goes off.

[Cat365]

When my mother who has a upper respiratory infection finishes coughing and she says she can't breath. My first response was "if your talking you are breathing". Oops, not the

response she was looking for.

[middleagednurse]

You're looking at the gorillas at the zoo and the first thing you see are their giant veins.

[middleagednurse]

You go out to dinner with friends, and you are the only person who washed their hands, and you really want to give a lecture on handwashing.

[sevensonnets]

When you hear ATTENTION KMart shoppers and you start looking for the crash cart!

[Sydryth, ASN, RN]

When you clock in and realize it's your day off!

[sevensonnets]

When you know at least 16 different descriptive terms for a BM.

[BeenThere2012, ASN, RN]

You go to change your nieces diaper for the first time, and you wonder where the gloves are...

Was thinking this same thing. Changing a friend's baby's diaper...LOL

[BeenThere2012, ASN, RN]

Any time you sign your name you automatically put "RN" & the date/time after it, especially when tired after a long shift, I did this at the DMV and had to do it over.

Here in L.A., my co workers and I used to try and guess which SSRI/NRI/benzo the plastic-surgeried ladies we saw on the street were on, "she totally has Zoloft face. OMG, that blonde one has Xanax eyes. Lookit, Paxil face AND fresh Botox!"

Carry box of gloves in car in case of Good Samaritan situation. And I sometimes try to log on my computer at home with my work logon.

I can't tell you how many times Ive put RN after my signature...too funny!