Being a nursing student

Another student and I were asked to given this little old lady a bath to help out the aide. She was in her 90's and had broken her public bone. A very young, good-looking doctor came in while we were setting up. She was flirting with him the whole time. After he left, we mentioned the flirting. She informed us that if she was 20 years younger, we would have "gotten a piece of that;." When we went to reposition her to wash her peri area, she said "Now be careful with me. I have broken my vagina." We are still laughing about that one.

On our first clinical experience, we had a student who had never been around patients before entering school. She was given her assignment and she walked into the room with confidence. She then came back out, her face was as white as a sheet and we asked her what was wrong. She stated that there was BM all over the place and she didn't know what to do! She then proceeded to the bathroom and vomited all over the bathroom!

I love how everyone notes that these are stories not of them but by people they know.... come on people fess up!

If one of my classmates threw a needle like that she would be out of the program.

During school, while learning how to insert NG tubes, a fellow classmate (who ended up being kicked out for unrelated circumstances) asked "So... how would you give supplemental oxygen through an NGT?"

Back during my LPN clinicals, there was one poor student who was just hanging on the edge of failing, and was a nervous wreck. The instructor told her she'd be giving an IM, her very first injection ever. Student comes over, tells me to come with her for moral support. Poor thing does everything right, does all the 5 rights, swipes with alcohol, sticks the pt in the arm, the pt screamed, and the student drops the needle (which is still hanging out of the pt's arm) and runs from the room. The instructor finished the injection, and the student was dismissed from the program that day.