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Lets start a fun thread that describes a nursing students way of life.

For examply always broke but gotta have those drug cards.

stuff like that

You know you are in nursing school when ....

your car looks like its lived in. :chuckle

Your friend comments that your car looks like a library. :uhoh3:

Lunch consists of chewing gum and a bag of peanuts. :balloons:

You are always broke but find money for a NCLEX - RN study guide and hold off on buying a new pair of jeans. :rotfl:

Specializes in Cath Lab, OR, CPHN/SN, ER.

You find yourself knocking on all doors, including the bathroom and your front door. Habits....

When I had tonsilitis a few months ago, I wasn't really able to talk. I had note cards with my signs/symptoms and duration, pmhx, and meds I was taking on it....He knew right away (Are you in the medical field?).

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1...in order to save time (and due to living almost 2 hours away from the clinical site) you cut your hair to "above the collar" in order to elimintate the time it takes to put it in a bun.

2...you get excited over buying expensive white stockings that are guaranteed not to run.

3...your husband asks you to "palpate his pelvis" because that's the only way you'll stop reading your med/surg book.

4...you spend your day off napping and studying.

5...you look at your kids and realize they have grown 6 inches in the last 6 months.

6...the dog licks your face to wake you up because you fell asleep with your books in your lap...again.

7...you can rattle of nursing diagnoses/interventions but can't remember when was the last time you COOKED dinner.

8...when licensed nurses are asking if you've taken Boards yet because they want you to work on their floor.

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You buy big, white, granny underwear in bulk for fear of not having a clean pair to wear under you attractive, thin, white scrub pants at clinical.

You carry a bleach pen to remove coffee stains (from the 4am drive to clinicals) on those beautiful pants

Your friends are planning a trip for spring break and you are planning on sleeping then getting a head start on next quarter's reading assignments.

You pack more than one book bag for one day of classes because you cannot possibly fit everything you need in one.

You own at least one backpack with wheels.

Once a 4.0 student, your new motto is "C means Continue!"

Beginning to talk to friends outside the nursing student circle and using slang like "...it prevents DNA replication of the virus", "the etiology is..", etc.

At our school we use C=RN

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you know ur in nursing school when....

Your sense of humor seems to get more "warped" each year.

You know the phone numbers of every late night food delivery place in town by heart.

You can only tell time with a 24 hour clock.

Almost everything can seem humorous ... eventually.

When asked, "What color is the patient's diarrhea?", you show them your shoes.

Every time you walk, you make a rattling noise because of all the scissors and clamps in your pockets.

You carry "spare" meds in your pocket

You refuse to watch ER because it's too much like the real thing and triggers "flash backs."

You've been telling stories in a restaurant and had someone at another table throw up.

You notice that you use more four letter words now than before

Every time someone asks you for a pen, you can find at least three of them on you.

You don't get excited about blood loss ... unless it's your own.

You've basted your Thanksgiving turkey with a Toomey syringe.

Eating microwave popcorn out a clean bedpan is perfectly natural.

You find yourself checking out other customer's arm veins in grocery waiting lines.

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Oh how I hate to admit the four letter word.

It has slowly but surely increased in my vocabulary.

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Specializes in critical care; community health; psych.

You find the four-letter word (the real bad one) escaping from your lips during a skills checkoff in the presence of your instructor.

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You find the four-letter word (the real bad one) escaping from your lips during a skills checkoff in the presence of your instructor.

Your instructor says the four-letter word under her breath while setting up your skills test!!! :)

(happened to me, from an instructor I'd never heard anything like that pass her lips!!!)

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- By second semester you realize that the three alarm clocks you had are no longer waking you up, so you go out and buy two more!

- Your dinnerware now consists of plastic silverware, plates, bowel, and cups!

- You can't remember the color of your carpet.... cause you can't see it, you can't afford the 5 min it takes to vaccum

- You seriously look into and apply at other colleges.... just in case you fail!

- You no longer buy white socks with colored stripes for your spouse... you buy all white... because you don't have time to pick through the basket for their mate.... or you just leave them unmated and throw them in a drawer, or leave them in the basket

- You start teaching your children at the age of 1, how to do the dishes, laundry and cleaning

- After graduating, you finally get started on the spring cleaning from 2+ years ago.

- You get a 78% on a test and scream with Joy!!

- You leave clinical, sniffing yourself, wondering if you smell like the hospital

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- You leave clinical, sniffing yourself, wondering if you smell like the hospital

Better the hospital than some of the patients...or some of the things that come out of the patients!!!

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...you panic when you can't find your stethoscope.

...you can rattle off indications and contraindications but can't remember your patient's name.

...when meeting someone outside of a hospital, you greet them with "Hi, my name is _______, and I'll be your student nurse for today!"

...the staff at Starbucks sees your study group coming in and has your drinks ready in less than 5 minutes (and there's a line out the door)!

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- You leave clinical, sniffing yourself, wondering if you smell like the hospital

No joke!! Before I started nursing school, I did my CNA clinicals on the GI floor!

OMGGG!!! :barf01: (I don't know how those techs could do it all day every day there)

Thankfully, my clinicals now are in orthopedic... which is much friendlier to the nose!!

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Specializes in Emergency & Trauma/Adult ICU.
- After graduating, you finally get started on the spring cleaning from 2+ years ago.

You mean I have to clean after graduation?? Boy, just when I was really starting to count down the days ... :rolleyes: :rotfl:

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