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You know you're a nurse if...
You've been telling stories in a restaurant and had someone at another table throw up.
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When you're bored in a study day so pass the time by counting the resp rate of all the other nurses in the room.
When you always assess your own **** - because it can tell a lot about your health.
When you tell your colleagues your headache is nothing, but deep down you're remembering that patient with meningitis and you're freaking out that you have it.
I'm a student.. But my 4 year old said to me last night, "mommy, I need a band-aide or my boo boo will get BACTERIA in it!!" (in a frantic voice) lol.He'll probably be like the one posters 4 year old who went to school talking about nursing stuff. He is already way into learning anything that mommy is. And he loves the bones! I've been trying to talk my husband into letting me buy a skeletal man! Yeah, he won't give in. Way too creeped out about it. Hahaha.
I was given a three foot skeleton by my Aunt (a previous EMT/dispatcher) when in school. He (due to skeletal differences I believe he is male) is still standing watch over my bed. It has creeped several people out, but I like him.
If you have ever intentionally talked about something disgusting at Thanksgiving so that you could get the last piece of pumpkin pie before anyone else.
If you have been beat up by a 90 year old 98 pound woman that has dementia and is on fall precautions and you are trying to keep her in bed.
If you have been hit, kicked, called names, bitten, peed on, and thrown up on by various patients over the years.
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...My King Charles Spaniel had to have 2 teeth pulled when he was 15 years old. Needed antibiotics and pain meds for a few days. I carefully explained to him that Dr. Ken wanted him to take them twice a day to make the ouchie go away so he would feel better, and they might make his tummy feel icky. A couple of years later (yes, he was 17 years and 4 months old) he collapsed on the bathroom floor and had no pulse or respirations, so I gave him mouth to snout respirations and CPR and brought him back. That's how I know I'm a nurse. I knew what to do and I did it. Besides, he was my youngest child!
Orca, ADN, ASN, RN
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When I was in my last year of nursing school and still working my prior job, without thinking I started inserting medical abbreviations into the documents that I was having typed up for mailing or distribution. "What is this c with a line over it?"