Sat. BP. RR. HR. Temp. One of these is going to crack.
And it's not the patient's. You haven't had water in 9 hours. Your charge nurse just asked you to take an admit. The patient in 4 is on the call light because their blanket is "the wrong kind of warm." You are one vital sign from a documented HR incident, one passive-aggressive email from a manager away from updating your resume, one Code Brown from walking out the front door without your badge.
What you're getting
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 nurse who's been one bad assignment away from quitting since June. For the charge nurse holding it together for everyone but herself. For the friend you should probably check on.
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.
Slap it on the badge. Use it as a warning system. Let the unit know.
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. Sat. BP. RR. HR. Temp. One of these is going to crack. Built by nurses, tested on night shift. Search-relevant: funny nurse sticker, dark humor nurse sticker, med-surg nurse sticker, nurse week gift, NCLEX gift.
