5 Dead Giveaways you’re a Nurse

After graduating, every student wants to start working and enjoy earning money. Being a nurse is proud moment, you want to start helping them, comforting them, and get them the right treatment. Here a few dead giveaways that reveal you're definitely a nurse.

Bodily fluids are not a big thing

As a nurse, you need to deal with a variety of bodily fluids including amniotic fluids, chyle, blood serum, cerumen, breast milk and much more. When you start talking about different bodily fluids nonchalantly and believe there is no harm in discussing their nature over the dinner table or while driving, is one of the most biggest giveaways you’re a nurse.

Your friends ask for advice

There may be a time in your life when friends call you for medical advice, instead of asking you out. If this is happening in your life right now, you're a friend and a nurse who is trustworthy in giving medical advice. Now whenever your friends call, you can't help but think it's an emergency.

Being attached to your pens

You know you are a nurse when you feel strangely attached to your soft cushioned jumbo pens. You get a weird feeling when you reach down in your pocket, and can't find the pen. You feel like you have been betrayed by your friend who has borrowed it, but still hasn't returned it. You feel uncomfortable sharing your pens and often come up with an excuse to avoid sharing them.

Coffee is your best friend

When coffee becomes your best friend and you crave for a cup, might reveal you are a nurse. Helping patients recover, comforting and giving them medicine, leaves you with very little time to sit and eat. Therefore, the only alternative you are left with is to survive on coffee.

Your bladder has expanded in size

Have you forgotten about bathroom breaks? Do you find it amazing when people take bathroom breaks every hour? Can you work for 12-hours straight without taking a bathroom break? If you answer yes to any of the above questions, it is a sign that you are a nurse. If you are able to hold it in for a long time without complaining, then you might be a nurse, or an aspiring one.

Another dead giveaway is that you can comfortably read a doctor’s handwriting. We all know that doctors don’t have legible handwriting, and it is difficult for a patient to read the prescription, but for a nurse it is a simple task they can accomplish with ease.

These traits characterize nursing as a profession, and if you fit this mold, you are most definitely a nurse, or a nurse to be.

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