Any other "older" new nursing students out there?

betts · Nov 27, 2001

WELCOME, STUDENTS OF NURSING!!!

I've been in nursing since,ummm;anyway,below are

A Layman's Guide to Medical Terminology which will help you too remember>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

bductor pollicis brevis Brave policeman kidnapper

Adenoids Space creatures that are keeping Elvis alive on Pluto

Aerobe A garment worn around the house

Anally Occuring yearly

Anasthesia A Russian princess you studied in school

Anesthetist Stalker of bird houses

Ankle Opposite of aunty

Antacid Halucinagenic drugs used by little bugs

Anthrax Trail made by ants

Antibodies Things uncles are familiar with

Antibody Your aunty is Elle McPhearson

Artery Study of paintings

Asthma What you do if dad says no

Atrophy Prize for winning

Autoblast A car horn

Autopsy The hood of a car

Ax-Bi-Fem A tool used by a woman to chop wood

Bacteria Back door to a cafeteria

Bandages Rock groups

Barium What doctors do when treatment fails

Benign What you are after you be eight

Bilateral Someone who speaks two languages

Bisexual A person who pays for sex

Blood Count Dracula

Botulism Making mistakes

Bowel A letter like A, E, I, O, or U

Bronchitis Dinosaur from the Plastasine Age

Bruise A six pack of beer

Buck Fever Incessant craving for dollar bills

Burger's Disease From eating in too many fast food joints

Cardiac Someone crazy about old cars

Cardioplasty Credit card

Carditis Addicted to poker

Caesarean Section A district in Rome

Carpal People who drive to work together

Catalyst A guy who works on a ranch

Cataract A whole lot nicer than a Chevrolet

Catarrh. Stringed instrument

Cathode Ray The amount Ray billed Cathy

Cat Scan Looking for kitty

Cauterize Made eye contact with her

Cavity Drinks from the menu

Cilia Their kids

Colic A sheep dog

Colostomy Can't find Collin

Coma A punctuation mark

Congenital Friendly

Conjunctivitis Prisoners littering their cells with trash

Cortisone The justice zone

Cystine Chapel with a painted ceiling

Cystogram A telegram to your sister

D&C Where Washington is

Delirium A large room with meat hanging from the ceiling

Denial Where Cleopatra swam

Dental Condition of a car after a wreck

Diarrhea Journal of daily events

Dilate To live long

Dropsy Inability to hold on to anything

Dyspareunie Don't worry

Electrode Amount due to the power company

Elixir What a dog does to his master

Enema Not a friend

Enteritis A penchant for burglary

ER The things you hear with

Eustachian Where you catch the U train

Fester Quicker

Fibula Small lie

Fibrillate Tell lies

Flatulate Fix a tire

Flocculation Admired by a group of birds

Fracture Part of a whole

Galactose Arch-enemy of the Fantastic Four

Gall bladder An anti-Roman vessel

Gangreen Gang colors

Ganglia A bad part of LA

Gargles Quasimodo's friends

Gastric Something you can do with a bunsen burner

Genital Non-jewish

Genome Lawn figure

Genotype Kind of girl Gino dates

G.I. Series Soldier ball game

Gloss Very shiny

Grippe Suit case

Hangnail Coat hook

Head nurse Alka-seltzer

Hemorrhoid What you offer to a hitchiker

Heparin Name of a famous movie star

High Colonic Jewish religious holiday

Homogenous A brilliant gay

Homosexual One who has sex at home

Hormone A prostitute's cry

Humerus Funny bone

Hymen Opposite of high women

Hypodermic Big, fat zoo animal

ICU Peek-a-boo

Ileal conduit Leave for Con to do

Impotent Distinguished; well known

Ingrown Hair A rabbit raised indoors

Injection Opposite of rejection

Inpatient Anxious, fidgety

Intense Pain Torture in the teepee

Intern One after another

Isodense I ain't too smart

Kidney The joint between a child's hip and ankle

Labor Pain Getting hurt at work

Liver A person who lives on and on

Lumbar Wooden planks

Lymphocytes Where people with sore legs can walk

Mammary Something you remember

Mandible Cannibal food

Medical Staff Doctors cane

Megahertz Hurts real bad!

Melancholia A breed of dog that eats cantaloupe

Microgram Small cracker

Minor Operation Coal digging

Miscarriage Losing your shopping cart

Morbid Higher offer

Nanogram Telegram delivered by your grandmother

Nitrate Cheaper than a day rate

Node Was aware of

Oral Mountain range in Russia

Organic Musical

Organ transplant T ime to call the piano movers

Otomy My car not yours

Outpatient Person who has fainted

Pap smear Fatherhood test

Paradox Two doctors

Pasteurize Too far to see

Patella To caress one's female companion

Pathological The reasonable way to go

Pathology Study of roadmaps

Pedicure Prescription for Fido

Peduncle What baby did on uncle's lap

Pelvis Cousin of Elvis

member To pee in Venice

Pharmacy Cultivating the ocean floor

Phenobarbital Peanut butter balls

Phlebitis Why dogs scratch

Plaster cast Free beer backstage

Platelet A saucer

Pneumonia Inventive complaining

Postoperative Letter carrier

Prepuce Before it turned dark

Prolapse Nascar race track

Prostate Flat on your back

Protein Favoring young people

Rarefaction A number not commonly used in math

Recovery room Place to do upholstery

Rectum Dang near killed him!

Relapse Second time around the track

Resonance imaging A DaVinci painting

Retractor Second hand John Deere

Rheumatic Amorous

Rhinoplasty Charge card for the zoo

Scapula Burger flipper

Scar Rolled tobacco leaf

Sebum A surfer

Secretion Hiding something

Senile Viewing an Egyptian river

Serology Study of English knighthood

Seizure Roman emperor

Shock Ocean fish with sharp teeth

Speculum Uncle Lum's glasses

Sphincter An Egyptian statue

Squamous Cell Pocahontas put it up for sale

Sterile solution An option to the elevator

Supraclavicular Interstate traffic pile-up

Surgery A reason to get an uninterruptable power suply

Suture Someone who works for customs

Systole Your sister told on you

Tablet A small table

Talus Request an answer

Tension What the officer demands of his troops

Terminal Illness Getting sick at the airport

Testicles Books of the Bible

Tibia Country in North Africa

Tissue God bless you!

Toe To take away your car

Tolerance What you get after giving growth hormone to ants

Transexual Having sex while driving

Trapezius Circus high-wire act

Triple bypass Better than a quarterback sneak

Tubule Two oxes

Tumor More than one

Ulna Name of a girl from Norway

Urinate What a nurse says to patient in room eight

Urine Opposite of "You're Out"

Urogram Finally your son has a kid

lady parts People who live in the state of Virginia

Varicose Near by

Vas deferens Not at all similar

Vein Conceited

Vulva Swedish automobile

Waiting room Heavy space

Windpipe Aboriginal musical instrument

Wound Will not

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Jacaut · Nov 28, 2001

Very good! Thanks for the laughs, betts!!!!!

Jackie

nurseybikerchic · Nov 29, 2001

WOW!, how long did it take you to type that list? :eek: .Nice one though, just the tonic I need right now. Been on a bit of a downer this week cos the university decided to change our timetable without consulting us or even warning us first. They say our placement hospitals are short of places to put the increased number of students coming through so they gave us three weeks extra holiday in January. Fine, yeh, I can live with that, but the sting in the tail, they take three weeks holidays away from us in return in the summer!. Basically translated, I don't get time with my kids over christmas as I am making up time. The kids are at school during the extra holidays in Jan and in summer I dont get any time off at all with the kids. Pretty damn lousy!. All this has happened because the government wants more nurses. Trouble is they mess us students around so much it'll be a miracle if we make it to the end of the course, bit counterproductive if you ask me. Anyway, end of moan!, how you other mature students finding your courses right now, anyone got any exams coming up, I got one just before christmas, nice timing or what?

ns3838 · Nov 30, 2001

I am new to this, so be nice. I am 30 something and in my first year of nursing. I worked in retail for 15 years and the store closed and I had no idea what I was going to do. I took a BIG step and decided to go back to school. It was the greatest thing I have ever done!! I have a very supportive family and I am doing better than I ever thought I would. Keep up your good work!! You can do it if you set your mind to it. I think the older ones do a lot better. We have a range of 18-50 something. You're never too old to learn!!:)

blueiwahine · Nov 30, 2001

Hey there! I'm new at this chat stuff, so I if I mess up on something don't give me too hard of a time. Still learning all this computer stuff. I'm 38, married, no children and almost through with my first semester of prereg. Looks like I made it through, unless I totally bomb exams. Plan on going for my BS in nursing, so should get to apply for nursing school spring 2003. Seems like ages before I get to apply. Figured it was best if I got all the basic college stuff out of the way, before I jumped into the nursing part. I know it might take a little longer this way but when I get there will be nice to deal only with nursing classes. Glad to know there are alot of others my age doing this. Any tips out there about this posting stuff? Ciao!

bizemom2 · Nov 30, 2001

Hello!

I am also new to this website, and am very excited to have found all of you!

I am a 32 year-old wife and mother of two girls (4 & 6) who has gone back to school for nursing. I've had many of the same feelings that you have, but was pleasantly surprised to find that I am not the oldest at all (yes, there are some young girls, but it's very comfortable. Having young children at home sure makes it difficult to study though! :rolleyes:

I am beginning clinicals in Jan., and am very excited to start getting hands on..I'm just completing anatomy/physiology, and it has been hard- but now that I've already been through college once before, I know what it takes! Age gives you an advantage that is priceless.. you know what life is, and what you need to do to get where you want to be, and it's not always the easy path! (having been a police officer, you surely know this!!) What made you decide to change careers?

Best of luck to you.. I look forward to keeping in touch with all of you "old ladies" like myself! :rolleyes: (ha ha!)

BRONXBABY · Nov 30, 2001

Welcome to the club!!

I am excited for you, good luck on your clinicals...How was A & P? I'll be starting that in the summer semester.

You're absolutely correct when you say we've got the advantage on being "older" and having already experienced life. I guess that's what gave me the courage to give school another shot!

I blew my right knee out and after 6 operations, the police dept. relaized I was a liability (I, of course, didn't see it that way) and thought better of keeping me around. Actually, I was going through my divorce at the same time and my 2 older children, who are now 23 and 18, really wanted Mom to have a regular people job.

I always tell others that it sounds corny, but I really love the satisfaction of having helped someone. I cannot stand sitting here at a desk, pushing papers and working so hard to make someone a lot of money (not me, of course) and seeing how it has no social worth at all. I know, I sound like I'm preaching, but I don't mean it that way. I just mean that sitting here is just not for me! I've got to be there, helping someone, because it makes me feel like I did something.

Besides, how do I keep giving my children the speech about how important going to college is if I don't accomplish that task myself? (geez, why didn't I feel like this 20 years ago??!! LOL)

Anyway, good luck in school...By the way, what is the secret to studying with little ones around? I still have 2 little ones at home myself ( 7 and 4) and have been feverishly trying to come up with a studying schedule so that I don't miss any time with them, but I want to really hit the books this time around. Any advice is greatly appreciated!

Have a great holiday season...again, welcome to the club!!

Christine :D

rosemadder · Dec 1, 2001

Hi everybody:

I am a 40 year old, single-parent of two. I've been back in school for 2+ years. I love it!! I think noone should start school (at all)until they are at least in their 30's (when they can actually enjoy it)--unless you are one of those fortunate people who always enjoyed school.

School is so much more fun when you actually want to learn. Knowledge is POWER!!!!!

blueiwahine · Dec 1, 2001

Hey Rose! Throughly agree with you. I'm enjoying college so much more this time, than the first time I went. It's great to actually want to learn the stuff. Hope I still feel that way 2 years down the road. I'm looking at 4/5 years of school.

janmae1950 · Dec 2, 2001

Hi, brand new to this discussion board. I, too, am an older student. I just turned 51. Actually I won't start my nursing classes till Fall 2002. I have some prerequistes to finish first.

I worked in the corporate world all my life. I cannot go back to that environment anymore. I want physical work. People complain about the low pay for nurses; however, even with all my experience in secretarial and accounting clerical work (over 25 years), I can't find a job that will pay me more than $10.00 an hour. I guess I could get a business degree, but the thought of it bores me to tears! There's a lot of "yuppie" posturing in the corporate world also - not like it used to be! I can't stand it.

I suppose there's working politics all over - you can't escape it anymore it seems.

But I am pleased to find this nursing website and this discussion board. I reckon I'll learn as much here as in the classroom.

BRONXBABY · Dec 3, 2001

JanMae,

I couldn't agree with you more! I have 18 years of accounting and secretarial experience, such as you do, and I just can't stand it any longer!

I can't fathom one more day sitting behind this desk and having to put up with the cut throat yuppies out here! I know there are problems in every profession, but I'd like to work where I feel I am actually helping someone.

I'm starting my pre-req's in a month and can't wait. I'm a single Mom and feel it's easier for me to preach the value of school when I've actually lived it...I can't wait to go now, I think if I had gone when I was younger (not that I had the opportunity then) I wouldn't have gotten half as excited as I am now. I really feel you should go when you want to, to learn and obtain the career you truly desire...not one that you think you're supposed to go into because your parents paid for school. (which my poor cousin had to do, or so he thought)

I am finally at the point in my life that I want to do something that makes me happy, not just pays my bills. Yes, I know a lot of nurses out there complain about the pay...but do any of us ever really get paid what we're worth? You have 25 years of experience, and the corporate world has the nerve to offer a measly $10.00 an hour...and think that's a "comparable" pay rate? (don't you love that phrase...industry wide pay rates...I could scream!!)

Anyway, welcome to the neighborhood!! I have learned lots of info here and have talked to some really great people.

Hope to talk to you soon!! Have a great day!! Good luck in school!

Christine

Katnip, RN · Dec 3, 2001

Jammae, I agree with you 100%.

I look at all the complaints about working hours, dealing with terrible people, and think "hey, they're talking about the travel industry". I worked behind a desk for 20 years and hated it. I worked holidays. I worked nights. I worked for low pay with no recognition. I worked OT with no OT pay. I got yelled at by bosses and customers.

My husband has a great job in management-started as an engineer. He does get paid well, but not OT for the 60-80 hour weeks he puts nor does he get compensated extra for having to bag family travel or holiday plans at the last minute. He's had to travel into war zones, deserts, jungles and other odd places. I can't count how many birthdays and anniversaries he's missed. Money does not make up for the time he was out of touch and out of communication and our three week old daughter had to go to the hospital for a week, and my boys were just little guys and we were in a new state where I knew no one. And my husband's job isn't with the military, so there was no support from there.

No, the grass is not necessarily greener in another field. At least with nursing, you can get some real satisfaction about what you do.

Sorry about getting on my soapbox. Once I got started, I couldn't stop.