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You know you're a nurse if...
You've been telling stories in a restaurant and had someone at another table throw up.
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When your 11-year-old calls you from the school nurse's office c/o feeling sick and you ask if he's throwing up (no), bleeding (no), or running a fever (no) and tell him to deal with it and you'll see him when school's out.
When the same child says his tummy hurts so you ask for a description of the pain, sharp or dull, location, and assess his abdomen to r/o appendicitis.
Had an "at home" realization myself this week.... My 14yo DS came down with the GI virus that's going around. He reported each incident of emesis and diarrhea, describing quantity and quality each time.
You know you're a nurse if your kid is better at documentation than he is at doing his homework or chores!
Leonca
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When your dad asks what you did at work today, and when you tell him his reaction is a mixture of
and
(he shares my sense of humor, but not my exposure to gross medical things).
when you want some entertainment during dinner, and pull up "what is your most gross, yucky, disgusting nursing horror story?" to read while you eat.