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?
If a patient has a colostomy bag, eating a lot of leafy green vegetables will mask the smell of the feces. The chlorophyll from the plants emits a more pleasant odor when broken down in the body.
Wasn't covered in class, was just something that I read at 2am one night studying. Random.
One of my instructor's favorite number was 8,942. So she would often say "There are 8,942 ways to..." and so on and so forth. Don't know why I remember that number. Maybe it's because what I learnt about nursing I learnt more from my first year on the job.
my tragus is pierced! The philthrum is also the little groove under your nose. You know, the one that funnels snot directly into your mouth when you're sick?
I've always liked that little bit.
What attracts you a person?
Well, I like a really pronounced philthrum...
I'm going to start using correct medical terminology as much as I can from now on!
I'm sorry this happened, I'm glad you're okay and this story made me guffaw. Who wears Gucci?
Lol this was 25 years ago. And when I got to ICU, intubated, I ran multiplication tables and Nursing mnemonics (On Old Olympus' Towering Top etc, etc.) in my head, over and over-just checking to see how many brain cells I had left. Yeah, Imma dork.
Lol this was 25 years ago. And when I got to ICU, intubated, I ran multiplication tables and Nursing mnemonics (On Old Olympus' Towering Top etc, etc.) in my head, over and over-just checking to see how many brain cells I had left. Yeah, Imma dork.
A clean dork, apparently. Of all the mnemonics for the cranial nerves...
I would say our OB/GYN rotation and theory module in LPN school. The whole thing.
It's not useless info, but I have never worked in that area.. No one in my graduating class went on to, either. All the LPN's I've met in my 7 years of practice haven't, either.
I would have taken a few extra weeks of pharmacology!
I was probably the only one in my OB Clinical group who didn't get all misty and weepy over "the miracle of birth" yada, yada.
If I had to palpate one more fundis I was going to throw up. And standing around watching someone pant and push? Yeah, when can we go for break?
Thank goodness there are so many specialties in Nursing lol.
Specializes in Infection Prevention, Public Health.
I was taught, "Never ask the patient's permission to do something if you aren't willing to accept no as the answer." It was in the context of pediatrics and that you are screwed if you say "Would you like your medicine now?" And the tot screams "no!"
Of all the mnemonics for the cranial nerves...
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If a patient has a colostomy bag, eating a lot of leafy green vegetables will mask the smell of the feces. The chlorophyll from the plants emits a more pleasant odor when broken down in the body.
Wasn't covered in class, was just something that I read at 2am one night studying. Random.