Being a nursing student

peridotgirl · Nov 22, 2007

Funny story. But what's a CR?

rannRN · Nov 25, 2007

^ sorry, the CR is the Comfort Room or the toilet :)

peridotgirl · Nov 25, 2007

u kept me lauging all the way.. please share more

Marijane · Nov 27, 2007

I have a funny. This wasn't me but one of my classmates. We were on the clinical floor our first semester and she was assigned an isolated patient. Before going into the room, she was told to gown and glove up. Well, she put on a patient gown instead of an isolation gown and went into the patient's room. It wasn't her fault that our clinical instructor didn't specify which gown to put on. :lol2:

gagezoie · Nov 27, 2007

In nursing school we were told to give a shot kinda like a dart, quick not slow. Well a student took the instructions above and beyond and stood about a foot away from the pt and threw the needle like a dart. Seriously. :lol2:

callmekipling · Nov 28, 2007

- A proctor asked a student where to find the PMI (point of maximum impulse) using his stethoscope...
guess where the student placed it? On his forehead!!!

Where I'm from, we call this 'bombing'. Though it's not encouraging to hear it's being done in clinicals.. I've done it a few times in my general ed classes. The idea is, if you haven't the foggiest idea what the answer is, do something funny, because you're not gonna get it right anyway.

Just yesterday, in chem, the girl next to me labelled three functional groups of carbohydrates as hydroxyl, ketone and rockin' :lol2:

peridotgirl · Nov 29, 2007

In nursing school we were told to give a shot kinda like a dart, quick not slow. Well a student took the instructions above and beyond and stood about a foot away from the pt and threw the needle like a dart. Seriously.

wow, she actually threw the needle like a dart? OMG. I've nevr done needles before, but I would NEVER do that; you need to be quick when giving an inj, but I would never take the "throwing like a dart" thing to heart. LOL! I hope she was stopped before she did some damage to the pt. Did anyone stop her? I hope the pt's okay.

gagezoie · Nov 29, 2007

wow, she actually threw the needle like a dart? OMG. I've nevr done needles before, but I would NEVER do that; you need to be quick when giving an inj, but I would never take the "throwing like a dart" thing to heart. LOL! I hope she was stopped before she did some damage to the pt. Did anyone stop her? I hope the pt's okay.

The needle actually bounced off of the pt and thank god he was a very nice man. He laughed at the whole thing. During second year I had ended up with the same guy and when I had to give him a shot, he started cracking up, told me the story (I already knew about, had a big lecture about not throwing needles at pts:lol2:) He still said it was his best day ever in the hospital. lol :rotfl:

rannRN · Dec 2, 2007

In nursing school we were told to give a shot kinda like a dart, quick not slow. Well a student took the instructions above and beyond and stood about a foot away from the pt and threw the needle like a dart. Seriously.

Seriously?? :devil:

Wow...if that ever happened here I'm pretty sure the whole batch would be listening to that student do a lecture about what she did...naks!!!

peridotgirl · Dec 2, 2007

The needle actually bounced off of the pt and thank god he was a very nice man. He laughed at the whole thing. During second year I had ended up with the same guy and when I had to give him a shot, he started cracking up, told me the story (I already knew about, had a big lecture about not throwing needles at pts:lol2:) He still said it was his best day ever in the hospital. lol :rotfl:

Glad to hear that the pt was okay. :):):)

Starr1966 · Dec 3, 2007

that is so funny. :lol2: good thing the patient had a good sense of humor. i'll bet the sn was so embarrased though.

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