For me, stuff hanging around my midsection gets hung up too easily. But that's just me.
I tried a fanny pack when i was working in a big busy trauma center that had
thrown in the towel on trying to get any of us prima donna's to stock the
rooms-usually had a multi-tool, the stock needed for an iv access and cardiac
workup blood draw, tape, and maybe a water bottle, cuz if you left your drink on
the counter someone would squirt some Lasix into it, or a one of our fragrant
drunks would grab a slurp on his way by.
My problem was that my butt was already wider than it needed to be, and adding a fanny pack brought me to the level of requiring marker lights and a lead car marked "wide load", which was disruptive to normal ER traffic. I shifted to stuffing my pockets, and had a colleague who wore a fishing vest. the vest is a swell idea, harking back to the nurse who followed Lord Lister around with a
pocketed leather apron and an atomizer of carbolic acid for asepsis. The
downside is that you look like an embedded correspondent from Iraq, or an stunt
double for "a river runs through it'. Eventually i came to embrace the Tao of
the er which dictates that, for a procedure requiring four items, each item will
be in a different room, and will have a backup supply located in a stock room
as far from the er as possible, while remaining in the same building.
It’s not like we are in a hurry to do this stuff.
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