1000ml Saline, 0ml Patience

1,000ml of saline. 0ml of patience.

You hung 1,000 ml of normal saline. You have, personally, zero ml of patience left in this entire body. The patient is asking if the IV is "making them feel funny." It's saline. It is the most unfunny thing in pharmacy. You explain this with the deadpan of someone who has already explained it 47 times this shift. You will explain it again. You always do. The bag is hung. The smile is performed. The shift continues.

What you're getting

• Size. 3" round, kiss-cut. Fits a badge reel, water bottle, charting tablet, or the back of your laptop. Big enough to be read across the nurses' station, small enough to fly under the manager's radar.
• Material. Weatherproof, sanitizer-survivable vinyl. Holds up to 12-hour shifts, full-arm bleach scrubs, and the occasional accidental sleeve-soak in a Code Brown.
• Print. Matte finish, no glare under fluorescent lighting. Reads clean from the foot of the bed and from across a nurses' station. Will not fade after the 47th sanitizer wipe.
• Adhesive. Repositionable for the first 24 hours. After that, it's committed. Like you, in year 7, telling everyone you're going to leave bedside but, somehow, picking up another double next weekend.

Send it to

For the IV team nurse. For the infusion RN. For the Med-Surg nurse who has hung more saline than the average ER stocks in a week.

Pairs with

Pairs with the matching 20oz Tumbler for the cup-holder energy. Or grab the Shift Sticker Pack if you're going to keep buying singles anyway.

Stick it on the badge. The next patient will get the joke. Or they won't. Either way.

For nurses who have run a code, charted "patient resting comfortably" while the patient was, in fact, screaming, and considered — fleetingly, in a parking lot, post-shift — leaving and never coming back. 1,000ml of saline. 0ml of patience. Built by nurses, tested on night shift. Search-relevant: funny nurse sticker, dark humor nurse sticker, er nurse sticker, nurse week gift, NCLEX gift.