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 Family Medicine, Tele/Cardiac, Camp.
Hurt people hurt people.
Not neccesarily clinical in nature, but said to me our first day by the head of our program who used it to illustrate the example that you must never take a patient's anger, moodiness, etc, personally. If somone has been hurt or is hurting, they will likely hurt you. Came in very useful during our psych rotation, every job I've had since graduating, and I still think about it.
No grapefruit juice if the pt is on Crestor. I have NEVER given anyone Crestor. Why on earth do I remember that one of all things?
No grapefruit juice on any statins, a lot of other meds as well. It inhibits how the cytochrome P540 3A4 works to metabolize many meds. I tell all my pts not to drink it.
SnowShoeRN
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Hurt people hurt people.
Not neccesarily clinical in nature, but said to me our first day by the head of our program who used it to illustrate the example that you must never take a patient's anger, moodiness, etc, personally. If somone has been hurt or is hurting, they will likely hurt you. Came in very useful during our psych rotation, every job I've had since graduating, and I still think about it.