I don't know if I'm alone in this, but I seem to have a knack for remembering pointless things.
I remember the names of restaurants that I've eaten at on vacations, the servers' names, and other useless information that I will never need to recall in my life again.
This also applies to my time in nursing school, which admittedly wasn't that long ago, but long enough that a lot of the non-vital "nice to know but not need to know" information that we learned has become a little hazy.
The one random nugget of seemingly useless information that I remember from nursing school is what a scleral buckle is and what it is used to treat. It was briefly mentioned in my second semester of nursing school and for some reason it stuck with me. I've never encountered someone that has had this procedure in clinical OR in my personal life and I really have no justification for remembering it, but I do.
Does anyone else care to share a random nugget of information they learned in nursing school that they still remember, but never actually came in handy to know?
Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.
Mu grandma was put on an iron supplement for anemia and this nursing school nugget popped into my head and told her to take it with OJ!
I was shocked when not one of my coworkers knew that and were mixing a complex pedi patients iron supplements with his calcium supplement. Poor kiddo's iron level dropped. Physician was ready to double the dose until his mom watched me set up his meds and dosed Ca++ 2hrs after the FeSO4. She asked why and the lightbulb went off. The one nurse was actually mixing Ca & Fe in the same syringe!!!
I remember learning in nursing school that you should listen to apical pulse for one full minute. I was on orientation as a new grad, and doing so. First 30 seconds normal rate and rhythm. Second thirty seconds pulse of 140's and irregular. I heard my patient go into afib which had been previously undiagnosed.
Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.
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Anna S, RN
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The correct spelling of ciliated pseudostratified columnar epithelium.