Hilarity of nursing school stress :)

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Seeing the post about negative posts on here made me think... OK what good things can I post about my week. I had a stressful week at school. Had to get alot of self tests done and a harshly graded care plan and test out on insertion, irrigation, and removal of NG tubes. So I did what I had to do and was practicing insertion the day before with a classmate in my clinical.

We were all " I remember how nervous I was first semester testing out on anything, I am not really nervous now how cool". Then I went to bed that night. I spent the entire night dreaming I was trying to insert an NG tube into my cat. Every time I would get it just right the cat would run away and pull out it's tube, then I would chase the cat, catch and repeat. FREAKY dream, but I went through the steps a gazillion times that night.

So the next day we get to test out and me and my cohort look at each other and NOW we were both shaking nervous. I told my classmates and our lab coordinator about my dreams and all had a good laugh. The instructor comes and it is now time to do the deed. I volunteer to go first and get it over with. As I am inserting "Mr. Jones's" NG tube the instructor is telling us how it is helpful to talk to the patient about other things while we prepare. So I say the first thing that comes to mind. " Mr Jones, that is a lovely picture of your cat on your nightstand". Everyone except the instructor bursts out laughing.

I did just fine and got raving reviews from my instructor as well as a puzzled look as to why everyone fell out during my test out, I haven't told her yet.:lol2:

JarOfPennies

107 Posts

That is SO funny! I laughed out loud when I read it. :rotfl:

Thanks for sharing your experience and for starting this post!

lisabeth

1,087 Posts

That was funny. :lol2: Thanks for the laugh. I hate being so consumed by it all that I wake up from one of those dreams and cant go back to sleep. :smackingf

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