you know you are a nursing student when...

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Specializes in SNU/SNF/MedSurg, SPCU Ortho/Neuro/Spine.

1- you have nightmares involving the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems

2- you walk around thinking of the names of muscles and things like that

3- you look at your co-workers and starting naming their bones

4- all of a sudden you start thinking of a&p stuff

5- when you are really tired and wanting to go to sleep your mind keep thinking of bones, muscles, tissues, and making the most weird connection among them that makes no sense other than keeping you awake

6- you touch your own bones just to make sure you remember their names

7- after taking micro you start getting grossed out about a whole bunch of things

8- you try to rhyme stuff and which sounds stupid but really helps you out!

9- you make the most uncommon associations and make your own words to remember things...

10- you cant wait until this is over so you can get to your real nursing classes

11- you cant wait to learn how to draw blood

12- get excited and cat wait to learn how to apply injections

13- you really love the idea and can't wait for your clinicals

14- but when the date gets closer you are actually really scared about it!!!

15- you think A&P is amazing!

16- but when you get to dissect stuff and when you smell it the fist time you feel like you just want to walk out!!!!

17- you start shaking really bad when you are going to dissect your first pig

18- you study so much that you confuse yourself

19- coffe is your best friend

20- mountain dew is the juice from heaven

21- red bull really gives you wings- after a few of them you just want to throw it all up!

22- you don't go to your friend's party because you have to learn the sperm flow!

23- you start getting upset how come a tyny little cell can have so many things inside of it!!

24- instead of going to the movies you make flash cards about the Na K pump

25- you can recite dna - rna - protein sinthesys process

26- you can actually do it bacwards!

27- you use your kids and nephews as "manequins" so you can study the bones

28- you will eat pasta and meatballs while watching trauma unit on the TV

29- you feel like you are becoming a member of starbucks!

30- you breath allnurses.com...

keep them comming guys!

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Specializes in Nada.

During the exam you catch yourself pointing to bones and muscles and naming them off in your head.... feel stupid... and then look around and see other people doing it too....

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you look at your kids and all you see are cell's

you teach your kids the alphabet and for all the letters you use things from A&P A (active transport), B (beuret regent), C (cytoplasm), D (Deoxyribose), E (Endoplasmic reticulum), F (filtration), G (Golgi), H (Haloenzymes), I (Isotonic), J (junction gap), K (Kinase), L (Ligands), M (membrane potential), N (nucleoli), O (osmosis), P (Proteins), Q (Quaternary structures), R (Ribosome), S ( Simple Diffusion), T ( Transcription Factors), U (Uniport system), V (vesicular transport), W (water molecules), X (X-axsis), Y (yeast), Z (zygot)

Sick isn't it!

:bugeyes:

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Specializes in Critical Care, Clinical Documentation Specialist.
you look at your kids and all you see are cell's

you teach your kids the alphabet and for all the letters you use things from A&P A (active transport), B (beuret regent), C (cytoplasm), D (Deoxyribose), E (Endoplasmic reticulum), F (filtration), G (Golgi), H (Haloenzymes), I (Isotonic), J (junction gap), K (Kinase), L (Ligands), M (membrane potential), N (nucleoli), O (osmosis), P (Proteins), Q (Quaternary structures), R (Ribosome), S ( Simple Diffusion), T ( Transcription Factors), U (Uniport system), V (vesicular transport), W (water molecules), X (X-axsis), Y (yeast), Z (zygot)

Sick isn't it!

:bugeyes:

LOL! Poor Kids!! :chuckle

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you look at your kids and all you see are cell's

you teach your kids the alphabet and for all the letters you use things from A&P A (active transport), B (beuret regent), C (cytoplasm), D (Deoxyribose), E (Endoplasmic reticulum), F (filtration), G (Golgi), H (Haloenzymes), I (Isotonic), J (junction gap), K (Kinase), L (Ligands), M (membrane potential), N (nucleoli), O (osmosis), P (Proteins), Q (Quaternary structures), R (Ribosome), S ( Simple Diffusion), T ( Transcription Factors), U (Uniport system), V (vesicular transport), W (water molecules), X (X-axsis), Y (yeast), Z (zygot)

Sick isn't it!

:bugeyes:

WOW!!! GREAT IDEA!!!! :yeah::yeah:

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Specializes in critical care, rehab, med/surg.

:chuckleYou look at your husband's veins and you shout, "OMG what HUGE garden hoses"!!:bugeyes:

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HAHAHAHA too funny!!!!

My husband always wants me to inspect his body for different things... I use it as a study tool, while he has other ideas.. HAHAHA

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I second #7 Csantos, I've started washing my hands about a million times a day because I suddenly know all the stuff that grows everwhere! Also, you know you're a pre-nursing student when you sprint to the mailbox every chance you get to check and see if your letter has come in yet!:D

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you start getting upset how come a tyny little cell can have so many things inside of it!!

This is SO up there on my list!! I'm much more into things I can actually SEE as opposed to anything requiring a microscope! I'm dreading Microbiology next semester!

...when you pause a medical show on TV to explain to your husband all excited that you actually understand what they are talking about

...it seems like pre-reqs will NEVER end!

...you spend a good chunk of time trying to decide what you want your "speciality" to be even though you're still three years away from graduation lol

...to go along w/ the last one, you spend a good chunk of time researching graduate programs...and you haven't even finished your BSN yet

...Your friends and family are almost sick of hearing about how much you can't wait to be in clinicals

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Specializes in acute.

These are so funny, I thougt I was the only one thinking like this.

I have one that happened yesterday to me. A little 5year old was poking all the apples we had just picked and I said, dont do that honey because the apples will turn brown because the enzymes will have hit oxygne. My daughter said "Mom" what is wrong with you she just learned where apples came from!:confused::loveya:

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Specializes in SNU/SNF/MedSurg, SPCU Ortho/Neuro/Spine.

you laugh so hard when 70 % of the people on pre-nursing with you say that they are in the program so they can become Certified Nurse Anesthesists (they have no idea what a CRNA do, all they know is the $$$ is good)

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Specializes in SNU/SNF/MedSurg, SPCU Ortho/Neuro/Spine.

have to agree with : ...Your friends and family are almost sick of hearing about how much you can't wait to be in clinicals

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