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?
Our professor that told us that had 6 kids, and also loved watching us squirm.
I honestly don't remember learning it in nursing school but it may be one of those nuggets you hear and forget.
I'm still wracking my brain trying to remember a random piece of info from nursing school . . . . .
edited . . .wait! My favorite instructor who taught us about personal care of patients was adamant that the linen closet door never be left open because that looked tacky. And there was a special way to put a pillowcase on a pillow without putting the pillow under your chin. Never throw dirty laundry on the floor!!
I still close the linen closet door when I walk down the hallway and see it open. I put pillow cases on at home the way she taught me.
Random and mostly useless info but I never forget.
A quote, "If it's warm, sticky, and not yours, don't touch it without asking." For some reason I remember who said this, where we were, and what we were doing. (before anyone asks, it was in class, and said by an instructor) It doesn't even always apply (blood, for instance), but still whenever I'm about to touch something it comes to mind.
Here's one that actually came up the other day and the other nurse in the room thought I was a little nuts, I think....but I remembered that we should NOT allow more than like 700cc of urine to exit via foley without clamping for a bit. Too much coming out at once is not good. I think this was back in LPN school 1989-1990.
CardiacRNBrina
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Longer Longer Longer Drop, now you have your Wenckebach.