your DRV is maxed out with episodes of "Untold Stories of the ER", "Diagnosis X" and "Medical Incredible" that you are waiting to watch during summer break.
...when you are at the doctor's office getting swabbed for influenza (I work in LTC) and you're asking for procedure tips as the nurse is sticking the "probe" down the back of your nose.
...you can't sleep the night before your "poke a peer" day in skills because of excitement, not fear.
...when recovering from above stated influenza and a fellow nursing student asks how you are doing; you state "Oh....better, but I think I'm still suffering from some impaired gas exchange."
...you and your fellow nursing students get asked to cease and desist at a Pizza Hut because you're grossing out the fellow diners who are overhearing your loud and animated conversation about various bodily fluids.
...when you realize that you are compulsively staring at everyone's arms and hands and mentally deciding if they have "good" veins.
...when your four-year-old starts repeating back the characteristics of various ECG rhythms WITH you because you've listened to that cardiac lecture so many times in car on the way to daycare. (True story)
you know you are nursing school when spring break comes around and your idea of a good time is catching up on sleep, sleep and more sleep and your family thinks you are depressed or sick.
You know you are a nursing student when you suddenly realize that tomorrow is Easter, and then scratch your head trying to figure out how you didn't know that??
OK so you know your in nursing school when.. the night before your care plan is due, you spend the ENTIRE 2 hours you acutally get to sleep, dreaming about taking your own blood glucose, poking yourself, but every time nothing happens. and when you wake up, your mother ask you why you kept repeating "I MUST GET IT, I MUST!" hahaha
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doglvr
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This is such a funny post!
Here's mine- you know you're in nursing school when you get all excited and cheer for your day 2 postop patient who had their first BM since surgery!!
Prior to nursing school I would have never thought poop would make me so happy!