Usually i wear it around my neck (before) but i found out im having an allergic rxn to that, my neck feels itchy, not because i feel a neck strain or something. In the ward where i worked, i get to take the VS of my patients every 4 hours, and considering i have to attend to more than 50 of them or more, getting all their VS, sometimes more than 10 of them has a VS q1 or BP q1! arggghhh!

I wear it around my neck the first 2 hours while I assess everyone, then I put it in my pocket or in my bag until I need it again.  Later in the day I don't have it on me, but I can't stand it flapping around in the BM I clean up. 

I used to get neck strain from it when I worked in the hospital and didn't have a lightweight stethoscope.  I met another nurse once who had this cool holster type thing she clipped onto her waist of her pants and the scope would hang in there the bell and the earpieces would hook in it, so it was looped around and didn't dangle.

       I wear mine all over in various pockets around my neck and sometimes either shoulder.  I set it on my clipboard and carry it that way, but it is always with me no more that two or three steps away or I sense something is missing like when one of my tools is missing from its place in my woodshop in the hands of my children or wife, or worse yet lost.  It, my stethopod, is part of me when I am Tim the Murse (Male Nurse that is) allowing me to hear that lovely sound lub dub or an interesting S3 or S4 every once in a while for variety.   What would I do without it.  Don't do patient care without it or you may be mistaken for a cleaning person, an administrator, or forbid, a nurse high on the managerment team that has lost his or her skills sitting in an office with a bottle of Tylenol, several half empty pens, a dirty computer keyboard, and hemroids on top of it all.  Weird ah.

Cheers - Tim, R.N.

...Well I used to wear mine around my neck at all times, until a male nurse I know got shingles from listening to a pt.'s lungs 4  abnormal breath sounds.........Opps from then on I learn to keep it clean and away from my bare skin, Can I say anymore! And I know its impossible to keep it away from ur skin I make sure I wipe it down good with a alcohol swab. I have them in my pocket at all  times anyways[ So why not use them. I'm sure my friend does from now on!

i wear mine in my locker-grab it if i need it

around my neck otherwise I'd forget about it.

Gitano: Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.

Like others, I loop it over my neck until I'm done assessing. Then it rides on my med cart, as I'm never too far away from that...

neck always

Gitano- I'm cubby so the cargo pants are a definate fashion NO NO lol and uniformcity.com has the holsters in some colors for $2.99. I love that catalog so nice and cheap lol.

Usually around my neck, but just got a new one (other one over 20yrs old)--I am getting welts from the new one (very expensive thing).  Looked for the holster on uniformcity.com but didn't find one.  Any ideas of who has covers for sale or patterns for making my own?  

Around my neck and sometimes in my pocket. It just depends on what kind of mode Im in.

When I was new in nursing I wore mine around my neck until the day during an emergency code I saw a nurse with her stethescope around her neck accidently pull out the patient's only IV line, with the stethescope.  Now, I keep it in my pocket.

 i haven't set on where to wear mine just yet.  I like to carry around my neck but it bothers me and i also heard of pts pulling and using as a weapon.  I put it in my lab coat pocket or just carry along somewhere.  I will try the pocket of the pants and look for the holster.  I saw a dr with one once and thought it was nifety.  I plan to acquire. 

When i was a staff nurse on a medical floor, I wore  it around my neck. It's almost like a nurse's Badge of Honor. You stick your chest out even more to show the world "Im a NURSE!"  By the time I moved to Psychiatry I was a Manager but used to see the psych nurses with the steths around their necks, so I had to remind them that the steths could be used as weapons against them by an out of control patient .I told them to remove them.