You know you're a nurse when...

This week was my mother-in-law's birthday, so I wanted to put together a beautiful basket for her full of "herb" stuff - a salad dressing mixer, some olive oil, scissors to cut the herbs she grows in her backyard, and some delicious recipes. I very carefully stamped some herb-themed recipe cards, then began to write out a recipe for salad dressing. Read very carefully...

"Mix basil, lemon zest, lemon juice, olive oil and garlic together in small bowel..." Yum! You know you're a nurse when "small bowel" is such a common phrase in your vocabulary that you subconciously write it in places that might not be so appropriate (or appetizing!)

This isn't the first time I've done this. Once after writing down some info for an upcoming flight, I meant to write DFW (Dallas-Fort Worth). Later, I noticed I had written D5W (a type of IV fluid)!