Help me stump the nun;)

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Ok..new grad..hired on med/surg/ortho floor where I've been an aid for 2+ years. My preceptor is a nun who is about my age..has been a nurse 10years and knows ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING. Last night after charting was caught up, I came up with "stump the nun". I tried everything I could think of from 'what is bence jones test used for' to 'where does byetta come from?' and she knew EVERYTHING. LOL Please help me STUMP MY NUN!! I love her to pieces..and think she's brilliant. I even have a dance prepared for when I finally stump her!! We have so much fun together...:) How lucky am I?!?!

Specializes in Case Management.

How about asking her to list all the steps of the KREBS cycle in order. I always felt it was the hardest thing that required rote memorization.

Sounds like a great premise for a new game show!!!!

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Specializes in icu, er, transplant, case management, ps.

I remember in the sixth grade, telling Mother Superior, that her veil had come loose (the straight pins they use, two had come loose). I didn't get smacked but the look she gave me, froze my soul. It took several years for it to melt.

Woody:balloons:

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Ask her about racking urine. I just found out what this is today. I had never heard of it before.

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Specializes in Med Surg/Tele/ER.
How about asking her to list all the steps of the KREBS cycle in order. I always felt it was the hardest thing that required rote memorization.

Not only to memorize, but to really understand......I spent some time on that too! I went to a Catholic school & loved it....great education.

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How about asking her to list all the steps of the KREBS cycle in order.

http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/lawrence/153/krebsbig.gif

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Sounds like a great premise for a new game show!!!!

Tune in tonight at 8 p.m for "Stump the Nun" followed by "Who Wants to Be Saved from Eternal Damnation?"

I know I'd watch. :lol2:

Do you think she knows what Alpha-mannosidosis is and how it affects the body? It's the only thing I can think of....

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Specializes in NICU, Psych, Education.

Did you stump her yet? Ask her about mulberry molars.

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Specializes in rehab-med/surg-ICU-ER-cath lab.

At my very first job as a GRN I had a supervisor who was another amazingly brilliant nurse. She gleefully asked two other GNR"S and myself a question she had been asking for 20 years without anyone ever being able to answer. She was trying to help us pass our "State Boards" - is was that long ago - and she loved this little trick. So, she asks what a Queckenstedt test is. For neuro I had an instructor that was funny as heck and I remembered her fooling around saying in a silly accent "This is the Queckenstedt, you will remember the Queckenstedt, you will LOVE the Queckenstedt!" Well, without even thinking I ripped off the answer to her question. The poor woman. I felt so bad that I had ruined her 20 year run at stumping new graduates. On my part it was pure luck that I knew the answer. So try this one with your incredible nun.

Queckenstedt Test- a test for spinal blockage of the subarachnoid space in which manual pressure is applied to the jugular vein to elevate venous pressure, which indicates the absence of a block when there is a simultaneous increase in cerebrospinal fluid pressure, and which indicates the presence of a block when cerebrospinal fluid pressure remains the same or almost the same - called also Queckenstedt sign[/size]

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Specializes in icu, er, transplant, case management, ps.
At my very first job as a GRN I had a supervisor who was another amazingly brilliant nurse. She gleefully asked two other GNR"S and myself a question she had been asking for 20 years without anyone ever being able to answer. She was trying to help us pass our "State Boards" - is was that long ago - and she loved this little trick. So, she asks what a Queckenstedt test is. For neuro I had an instructor that was funny as heck and I remembered her fooling around saying in a silly accent "This is the Queckenstedt, you will remember the Queckenstedt, you will LOVE the Queckenstedt!" Well, without even thinking I ripped off the answer to her question. The poor woman. I felt so bad that I had ruined her 20 year run at stumping new graduates. On my part it was pure luck that I knew the answer. So try this one with your incredible nun.

Queckenstedt Test- a test for spinal blockage of the subarachnoid space in which manual pressure is applied to the jugular vein to elevate venous pressure, which indicates the absence of a block when there is a simultaneous increase in cerebrospinal fluid pressure, and which indicates the presence of a block when cerebrospinal fluid pressure remains the same or almost the same - called also Queckenstedt sign[/size]

Why do I think this will not stump the good nun

Woody:balloons:

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