NiteNurseRN

Boy, do I remember! For one thing, I am HOH, wear hearing aids, and had a hard time in class taking lecture notes. I had to wait til the teacher moved away from the board to see what she had written, plus she had her back to me so some of the words were hard to hear. One time in class, we were talking about saline locks. Someone changed the subject, & the next thing I heard was "sublingual". I said, "Ewwww, a sublingual Saline Lock! That must have hurt!" Everyone ROARED, fell out of their seats and laughed their butts off Totally!! I had to laugh too. I had a MEAN teacher who was always not around in clinicals. One time I said (when I saw her in the hallway), "Oh there you are. I was looking for you." The teacher said, "What are you insinuating? That I just Left you there, abandoned you, what do you mean?" Finally, I just told her, "No, I must have looked in the wrong place." She kept the pressure on me, told me I wasn't going to make it, etc. I just got in her face and said, "YES I AM." I went through LVN & RN school. I've heard someone say they'd rather be in a car wreck than go through Nursing School again. I do not regret the choice I made and I always do everything I can to help NSG. students when ever they show up at the hospital. P.S. I didn't become a nurse until I turned 40. I'm 49 now.:imbar

Deespoobear, YES, YES, Yeeesssss, I feel that Med/Surg is the dumping ground. I got an admit from a NSG home that was passed on to me (hello, is it gonna be a bad night or what???) with decubs, bleeding out in his urine (f/c bag is full of kidney bean red/brown urine), H&H in the toilet, plus stroked out. Meanwhile, the unit clerk/tele moniter is playing on the internet all nite, so the Dr's orders are full of mistakes which we nurses have to fix in our 24 hr chart checks. I had a pt. fall because most every one on the unit was busy with a near code that was rushed to the ICU. My boss ended up mad at me because I was still there with 6 untouched-white-as-the-virgin-snow charts. P.S. Deespoobear, Your cute, red barn looks like it has 2 bombs on top of the roof (don't get maD)