You Know You're a Nurse When...

I know many of you have heard or read some like these...but here are some I haven't seen before. Some made me LOL. Hope you enjoy them! Nurses Humor Article Video

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prmenrs, RN

4,565 Posts

Specializes in NICU, Infection Control.

You've ever made a Christmas decoration w/medicine cups dipped in glue, then glitter and attached to a styrofoam ball. Add some plastic mistletoe, and you're in business.

Last year, we saved all the Hep B vaccine bottles, refilled them w/colored water, and hung them around, garland style.

talaxandra

3,037 Posts

Specializes in Medical.

Or realised you don't have any wrapping paper for a Kris Kringle and used paper bedpan covers, trache tape and morgue labels (artistically decorated, of course!) instead.

cloister

111 Posts

Specializes in Critical care, neuroscience, telemetry,.

Or made a really gorgeous disco ball out of a styrofoam ball and all the leftover containers from narcotic syringes......or have ever intubated a pumpkin at Halloween......

Dawn Vylet

25 Posts

Specializes in OB.
You've ever used a disposable speculum to hold a turkey open while stuffing it for Thanksgiving.

Too funny.:D I can't wait to be a nurse.

Jamesdotter

464 Posts

Specializes in Women's health & post-partum.

When IVs came in glass bottles, they were sealed with both a latex stopper and an aluminum disc. Those shiny aluminum discs were great for crafty projects.

kermitlady

114 Posts

Specializes in LTC.

You're watching "Most Extreme" on Animal Planet and it's about the nastiest animal jobs and they get to maggots debriding wounds and you get mad because they didn't show the wound!

(Sorry for the long run-on sentence!)

MaleICURN, BSN

27 Posts

Specializes in Critical Care, PICU, OR.

Many times, when I sign anything, I pull off my pen just before I put an "RN" behind my signature. Once actually happens and it was a check to ... the Board for my license renewal.

You're a nurse if you eat at the light speed limit even in the finest restaurant.

You think, that coffee should be in an IV form.

You play the game, how much ETOH on board is on your next trauma patient.

You play game, how much urine is in the kiddo diaper (actually, we have at least 2 nurses who really play this game).

You tell your kids on arrival home "Give me an air hug, you'll hug me after I'll have a big shower".

Specializes in ortho/neuro/general surgery.
When IVs came in glass bottles, they were sealed with both a latex stopper and an aluminum disc. Those shiny aluminum discs were great for crafty projects.

Some of our parenteral nutrition lipids come in glass bottles still, with the stoppers and the aluminum disc. So does IV etoh.

M&M+RN

16 Posts

Specializes in telemetry.

This thread just made my day. I want to share some.

-You can tell the diagnosis GI bleed just by the smell.

-You treat Nursing Drug Guide like a holy book.

-You know C= RN

-You have the most washed hands and dry hands

mlolsonny

123 Posts

Specializes in Geri, psych, TCU, neuro--AKA LTC.

You're talking to your mechanic about a procedure that he's recently had done, and give him education that his new narcotic analgesic will likely make him constipated.......

SskSmulle

2 Posts

You know you're a nurse when have stupid contests at work. Fastest guy to put a venlon in one of your own veins.

Don't try this at home!!!

ksangel

34 Posts

my son was about 8. he had issues with his ears. tubes had been inserted since he was 5. he promptly informed the ent specialist that is contraindicated for a child over the age of 8 to have his tympanic membrane ruptured by a foriegn object. also when on to inform him the perment damage he could be causing him. needless to say..... the ent specialist removed the ear tubes. looked at me and said he is not doogy howser... take your books away till he is a little older.

son had pulled a tooth..... he first went to grandma....i was in the sacred dont touch me i just walked in the door from work mode. he informed her he was hemmoraging..... mom yelled at me.... i had to inform my son that 3 drops of blood is not considered hemmoraging