Memories of nursing school.....

[wv_nurse 2003]

I was reading through some of the new posts, and one about being humiliated for being late for class just brought back all kinds of memories from nursing school.

We had a girl in our class that was ALWAYS (I mean every class without exception) at least 15-20 minutes late for class. She would litterally blow in, dropping papers, apologizing, but always having some grand tale of why she was late (which she chose to share with everyone--right then). Her car broke down, she had to stop and assist at an accident, her hair wasn't right the first time she did it (yikes!), her neighbor needed CPR (I am not exaggerating!), her coat got caught in her car door, and she couldn't reach her keys to unlock the door ! I don't know how she survived these daily traumas! It drove me insane, but the instructor never said a word--she did eventually fail, because after she did get to class 50% of the time she would then fall asleep!

Another fellow-student was the ultimate "anal retentive" nursing student. She would collect at least 3 different students notes after class--take them home, transcribe them --color coded--!!

Anyone else have funny stories of nursing school? I'd love to hear them!

[NurseDennie, BSN, RN]

One of the instructors was talking about charting, and how we were to chart the patient ambulated "x" number of feet, as opposed to pt ambulated to BR.

Well, my friend and I were... well, of course, stressed and overworked and all that, so we were ripe for the ever-popular hysterical laughter. So of course, what comes to MY mind is my patient ambulated 100' to the bathroom because she was confused and went into another patient's bathroom.

She and I fell all over ourselves laughing about that. You have to be sleep deprived and stressed to appreciate that mental picture.

But I REALLY laughed several years later when I got report from the nurse who said that one of my patients had been very confused and restless all day, and recently started complaining that somebody was in her bathroom, crying. I went to check it out, and sure enough, there was another one of my patients, crawling around on the floor in the bathroom, crying because she was lost.

The patient being lost wasn't funny.... well, it WAS funny, but it was only funny because it was the exact situation we'd freaked out over in nursing school.

Love

Dennie

[shodobe]

We had this one girl who loved to joke around. One time she got a little drunk one night before clinicals and had me and another student put a full arm cast on so she could get out of clinicals because of the hangover! The problem was once she sobered up and realized she would have to get a doctor's note she paniced and we had to find a way to cut the darn thing off. Luckily we had a great director and she knew what had happened and brought her in and cautioned her about such things and made her promise it would not happen again. We talked about it for the rest of nursing school and she would turn as red as a beet every time. Mike

[judy ann]

I, too, spent my nursing school years in a dorm. We had a little nun-house mother who had entered the convent at the age of 12 and really didn't understand "young ladies of our advanced age" out on the town on a university campus. She would line us up when we came home and ---- smell our breath. Then we all got a lecture on the evils of alcohol. After all together too many lectures, we found the cure for this. We all chewed a clove of fresh garlic on our way back to the dorm. Sister would see us coming home, and run the other way!:chuckle :chuckle :chuckle