I may just be a nursing student, but I do know a little sumpin' sumpin'

Antikigirl, ASN, RN · Mar 17, 2006

Oh man I get that and the opposite! LOL!!!!!!!! It's like okay I know this stuff please listen or why didn't you listen I know this stuff! LOL!

I just took it to the bottom line, I give advise based on knowledge, but it is that...advise...take it or leave it. Usually works out that the patient is fine, I am holding back the "I told you so", and they are just being quiet and nodding! LOL!!!!!!!!!

Newbie Nurse SMP · Mar 17, 2006

I love when people ask me stuff knowing I am a nursing student, and after I give them the answer based on my knowledge so far they challenge me. They always say "No that can't be right." Well if you already knew the answer why did you ask me for advise! If you were going to challenge me why did you even bother!

People drive me crazy!!! LOL!

DaFreak71 · Mar 18, 2006

Situation: Husband is a nurse, I am in nursing school. Husbands new step-father complained of pain in his shoulder and kept stating that he had no idea what it brought it on, but it might have been due to clenching his arms at the dentist (?).

I asked what he did before he went to the dentist that day and he said "I went to see my chiropractor".

Me: Were you in any pain prior to getting a treatment from the chiropractor?

Him: No.

Me: How long after your visit did you begin to feel pain?

Him: About an hour.

Me: Do you feel that the onset and type of your pain were in any way related to being physically manipulated at the chiroprator?

Him: No, he's a good doctor.

Me: well sometimes these things can happen, I'd avoid more treatments for a few weeks and give your shoulder some time to heal. Perhaps alternate heat/cold and take some anti-inflammatories.

He thought I was full of it until my husband reiterated it. Then suddenly it was the most plausible thing in the world. GRRRRR.

Adri

mariedoreen · Mar 18, 2006

I just experienced the opposite problem tonight. I've been an LPN for a grand total of 2 months now and will graduate with my RN in June. Family and I are watching CSI. A woman is in the process of dying from radiation poisoning. She's in bed weak, pale, and barely able to talk and that's where the show ends. Family wants me to tell them if she's going to die that day. HUH?! I dunno, they didn't say. WELL YOU'RE A NURSE! I get in reply. Okay, whatever. Did y'all get that this is fake and she's an ACTRESS?! Sheesh.

mst31 · Mar 18, 2006

i know exactally what you are talking about. i am a senior nursing student graduating in may :lol2: . last week i had a fellow coworker (i am an administrative assistant in an office) tell me that when her blood sugar is up she eats a peppermint or drink orange juice and this brings her sugar down. huh???:uhoh21: i proceeded to try to educate her and tell her that orange juice and peppermint candy makes your bs higher not the opposite. she argued with me and said she even read it in a book she has at home. needless to say the conversation got hot :argue: and we just dropped the subject. the next day the same coworker comes in and casually mention in passing that the book did say drink juice or eat a piece of candy when you are hypoglycemic! no apology or anything. i guess i take what i can get. two years of nursing school. you would think that i would at the very least know how diabetes works! :nurse:

**RosesrReder, BSN, MSN, RN** · Mar 18, 2006

i know exactally what you are talking about. i am a senior nursing student graduating in may . last week i had a fellow coworker (i am an administrative assistant in an office) tell me that when her blood sugar is up she eats a peppermint or drink orange juice and this brings her sugar down. huh???:uhoh21: i proceeded to try to educate her and tell her that orange juice and peppermint candy makes your bs higher not the opposite. she argued with me and said she even read it in a book she has at home. needless to say the conversation got hot :argue: and we just dropped the subject. the next day the same coworker comes in and casually mention in passing that the book did say drink juice or eat a piece of candy when you are hypoglycemic! no apology or anything. i guess i take what i can get. two years of nursing school. you would think that i would at the very least know how diabetes works!

least she could have done is say sorry :idea:

sheri_w · Mar 18, 2006

Conversations with my first hubby.

Him: Got anything I can take for this headache?

Me: Here, take some of this Motrin.

Him: What!! Thats for womens stuff, it'll make me a sissy. I thought you were suppose to be a nurse!

Him: What can I take for these allergies.

Me: Here's some Benedryl.

Him: What, that's for itching(previous allergic reaction). I thought you were suppose to be a nurse!

I finally got to the point I just said "I don't know, go see the doctor".

sheri

Krista77 · Mar 18, 2006

Love to read this stuff! Now I know I'm NOT alone!!!

My SIL, about 2 hours away calls yesterday histerical to tell me that her daughter (a year and a half old) has fallen, hit her head on the end table and is bleeding.... she wants to know if her daughter needs stitches-??? WHAT!? Hello, I'm about 2 hours away and can't see anything she's talking about. Oh, the best part- she wants to know if it's going to scar... geez!

Drysolong · Mar 20, 2006

I just experienced the opposite problem tonight. I've been an LPN for a grand total of 2 months now and will graduate with my RN in June. Family and I are watching CSI. A woman is in the process of dying from radiation poisoning. She's in bed weak, pale, and barely able to talk and that's where the show ends. Family wants me to tell them if she's going to die that day. HUH?! I dunno, they didn't say. WELL YOU'RE A NURSE! I get in reply. Okay, whatever. Did y'all get that this is fake and she's an ACTRESS?! Sheesh.

OK I am trying to do the Math. The only thing I can think of is that you graduated a while before you took the LPN exam or, or What What - Please explain!!??

nurse_clown · Mar 20, 2006

when i was a nursing student i lived in a condo with two other students. one was eating an orange, talking and laughing at the same time. a little bit of juice makes her cough. then she started laughing. my other roommate started laughing and i started laughing. then she looks shocked and said "but your a nurse". as if she expected me to perform cpr and intubate her or something. or maybe she wanted me to teach her how to eat.