Weird habits you've picked up since starting Nursing school

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A few of mine:

Checking the expiration date on EVERYTHING.

Evaluating everyone I meet for IV placement.

Laying out every utensil I need before cooking.

Watching every person I see with a cane to make sure they're using it correctly.

Specializes in acute care.

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Specializes in oncology.

OMG that is soooo funny!!!!

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In addition to so many of the mentioned protective measures I've gone to always carrying 7 paperclips in my pocket. It used to be 5 until I ran short. OH NO!

Our admission, dismissal, and change of status paperwork comes down in piles of hodge-podge for each task...some pt. information, some assessments, some pt. history. It's like Yours, Mine, and Ours. In order to organize the tasks I paperclip each group separately and work from there.

It gives me a little sense of control. Sad, oh so sad!

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And just in case anyone things I'm selling these things, I have nothing to do with this website. I do childcare until school starts. :) I just though the shirt was cute and wanted to share.

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Specializes in Studying.

I do the whole don't touch things in public, and I don't like to touch my food either, even if I did a full 1-minute hand washing. I also check the expiration date on EVERYTIHNG, if anyone I know uses the bathroom I make it a point to ask them if they washed their hands, and I'll still avoid touching them because you don't know how WELL they washed. But I've always been a bit of a germaphobe, even before staring nursing school, now I'm just WORSE. My classmates actually make fun of me for it. I suppose I'm a little extreme, though to me it's mostly normal. At least these things (including other stuff not listed) do not take up more than an hour of my time during the day. :yeah:

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1. I stay up at all hours of the night to study

2. I'm constantly talking to myself the day before a competency.

3. I drink A LOT of coffee.

4. I smoke like a chimney.

5. I get aggitated easily.

6. I think that it smells like a hospital, every where I go.

7. I HAVE to take a nice HOT bath right before clinical, or else!

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Oh, I forgot to put down the obsessive HANDWASHING routine that I go through everyday. I have to keep my hands clean. I mean come on, that's the one thing that actually does reduce the spread of microorganisms. And it really disgusts me whenever I go into a fast food joint and see the workers handling the food without gloves:/...It aggitates me so badly!

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Specializes in ER/Ortho.

I have always been the person who flushed with my foot, washed my hands, and then used the paper towel to turn off the water and open the door. Nursing has changed me, and I am actually less freaked about germs. I actually used the 3 second rule and act a cube of cheese that fell on the kitchen floor the other day.

I am around sick people all day. I have dealth with poop, pee, vomit, snot, spit, and all types of body fluids. I have been exposed to coughing and hacking and all sorts of nasties. My thought process is that my kitchen floor I moped the day before is not going to kill me.

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I have always been the person who flushed with my foot, washed my hands, and then used the paper towel to turn off the water and open the door. Nursing has changed me, and I am actually less freaked about germs. I actually used the 3 second rule and act a cube of cheese that fell on the kitchen floor the other day.

I am around sick people all day. I have dealth with poop, pee, vomit, snot, spit, and all types of body fluids. I have been exposed to coughing and hacking and all sorts of nasties. My thought process is that my kitchen floor I moped the day before is not going to kill me.

I feel like that is how I'll end up being. Too early to tell though. I'm pretty laid back as it is so I could have the complete opposite in store for me. :chuckle

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Specializes in neurology, cardiology, ED.

I'd have to say...

1) checking out everyone's veins

2) non-chalantly discussing blood, poop, pee, vomit, sputum and trips to the morgue with my husband over dinner (yes, he's in the business too)

3) lately whenever my family comes over for dinner, the experience is not complete without "blood pressure clinic" afterwards

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Specializes in Studying.

Yeah... I have to add talking about the blood, poop, pee, etc stuff in front of people. I usually didn't mind talking about it b/c my mom is a nurse so I was used to listing to that stuff. But now I'm actually talking about it, and somtimes I forget and people have to remind me to "shh..." b/c some people just don't have iron stomachs. It's a pitty that the most fun and exciting dinner conversation for me is what happened to me that day in clinical. Some people just can't hang... :-)

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I would have to say my weird thing is looking at veins...everywhere...even on movie actors.....Angelina Jolie has great ones!

I don't put my fingers in my mouth anymore....I wouldn't say that is weird though, the weird thing was putting my fingers in my mouth, it's not actually my fingers but my nails. I used to bite my nails, (stopped that when I became a CNA:eek: eeeww!) but I still had a tendency to stick my nails in my mouth, but not since nursing school

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