Just wondering, if anyone else has experienced the sudden heighten of senses when they first started nursing? I'm currently a student, but I had recently started working as a CNA and after about a month of working my hearing is highly more significant...and as for my sense of smell...I smell eveeeeeerything. I even feel like my sense of taste is different.
So what I want to know is if anyone else has experience this, or should I go head and order my cape and tights now?
BTW, no I'm not pregnant, or rather I hope not since I'm a guy...and I've heard the painful stories of kidney stones so I could only imagine....
In all seriousness, nursing is all about noticing things. IMO nurses may not have superior senses, but can have greater awareness of sights, smells, sounds, etc. because performing assessments becomes second-nature. Maybe now you're just noticing and scrutinizing those observations more closely.
I swear that since I became a nurse, I can't help but assess strangers when I walk down the street. I notice gait, veins, skin discoloration/condition, WOB, and all kinds of things I never thought about before nursing. I've sat next to people on the bus and thought, 'I wonder if this guy is in heart failure?' just from those small observations.
Or maybe we need to get you one of these eye-roll inducing mugs...
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Yes! I couldn't figure out how to put this into words, but exactly this.
I have a diagnosis for the OP. Going to nursing school and working at the same time, extreme stress, having hallucination of at least 3 senses, claiming to have unusual powers that most people don't have. Mini mental health assessment????? Psychotic break..... Hope you are not on your Mental Health rotation right now, they might not let you leave:nurse:
Well darn, I was really looking forward to parading down the hall with my underwear on the outside of my scrubs. But, I guess a cape would be a little too much, it'd probably be covered in lovely mysterious stains half-way through the shift.
How many times has someone said, "yup, that smells like c-diff".. and I'm thinking "well it smells like poo, but I couldn't tell you for a million dollars what KIND of poo it smells like." Sure, I can usually tell what it looks like... but I'm really grateful to not be that someone who can sniff it out!
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Thanks for killing the dream guys.
Julius Seizure
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Yes! I couldn't figure out how to put this into words, but exactly this.
Including the part about the awful mug.