Student nurse blues

[jbluehorseh]

:DCrazy Naked Lady

To understand from where I am coming from, you have to know my school believes in eating their young.

As the ever paranoid nursing student (me) was getting his patient set up, so she could take her own bed bath, she asked him to wash her back before leaving. No problem, so I thought. My instructor wanted a report on my patient's condition, along with her physical, social, financial, and family assessment. I knew that she would be here at any minute and I wanted to take care of my patient before she showed up.

When I help my patients take a bath or any thing that has to do with removing clothes, particularly females I like to help keep their dignity as much as possible. Sign of a good little nursing student, right? Well that did not happen. You see my elderly patient was a little on the "energetic" side you see. As she put it, she like being nude and it did not bother her that anybody was around to see. So, as I was trying to keep her gown on as she was taking it off. I thought great, my instructor is going to be here any minute and crazy naked lady is going to get me kicked out of nursing school. Yup, at that same exact time, my instructor came in pulled the curtain back only to have the gown tossed at her, underwear flying off in the opposite direction. I do not know if I was suffering from pure embarrassment or terror, but I saw my future as a nurse slip way. Being the ever calm caring instructor that she was, the one that comes from the school of eating their young, she did not say a word to me as she finished helping me with my patient. She tried to put some clothes on her with no success. Quietly she pulled me out and away from the patient's room, looked with a grave stare,( oh !@# I'm done ) and busted out laughing. She ended up being one of my favorite teachers.

John RN