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?
Not clinically related, but on my first day of LPN school in 1976, the director of the school (a founding member of the Crusty Old Bat Society - she signed the charter in the blood of former students) dismissed the two male students from the room, closed the door and told us:
"Do NOT wear your uniforms anywhere but straight home to change after clincals. Men are turned on by white stockings and caps and you will get raped."
When I learned this, my first thoughts were, "Has anyone ever actually had currant jelly? How does one catch a currant, much less jellify it?"
Fortunately, I did not say this out loud. That MedSurg instructor wasn't known for her keen sense of humor.
I actually had a GI bleed patient whose stool looked like currant jelly! I said to myself: so this is must be what current jelly looks like after hearing about it so many times in nursing school.
Not clinically related, but on my first day of LPN school in 1976, the director of the school (a founding member of the Crusty Old Bat Society - she signed the charter in the blood of former students) dismissed the two male students from the room, closed the door and told us:
"Do NOT wear your uniforms anywhere but straight home to change after clincals. Men are turned on by white stockings and caps and you will get raped."
Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.
This one isn't in the same class as many of the preceding... but a strong memory nonetheless. My favourite nursing instructor said this, "There are many foods that contain magnesium. When we're premenstrual, we're all somewhat magnesium depleted. We crave chocolate because of its magnesium content. We could get the magnesium from broccoli, but why would anyone want to?"
Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.
Actually, I saw the ophthalmologist today for my every 6 month check & have to go to the retina specialist tomorrow because there's the beginning of a tear in my right retina. The fun never ends!
That's the pits. Hope it turns out to be minimal and easy to fix.
Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.
Not clinically related, but on my first day of LPN school in 1976, the director of the school (a founding member of the Crusty Old Bat Society - she signed the charter in the blood of former students) dismissed the two male students from the room, closed the door and told us:
"Do NOT wear your uniforms anywhere but straight home to change after clincals. Men are turned on by white stockings and caps and you will get raped."
She was 100% serious.
Makes me wonder what might have happened to her or someone she knew. >shudder
Agree. I have never seen this term used since I was in school. But let me tell you, once I developed mittelschmerz, beer, bratwurst and sauerkraut and polka fests just were not as fun if I was mid-cycle!
To document "purulent", not "*****". If she wouldn't have taught that, I most likely would have charted that second word at some point without even noticing.
Of all the mnemonics for the cranial nerves...
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What the hell? Lol!