I am a nurse. When I go to work I take a backpack. Inside is a ditty bag with essentials for an over nighter (I work 12 hour shifts), a clipboard, ACLS algorithims, food for the shift, calculator, pens, scissors, forceps, pencils, stethascope, flashlight and extra set of socks and underwear (we get vomited and defecated on-hospital provides scrubs), a light weight jacket(windbreaker).
I was a deputy sheriff for 11 years, and 4.5 of those years also the jail nurse. Part of the jail I could carry in, but in the cell area it was a no no. I had a lock box in the clinic to leave gun, and knives, scissors etc.
ll