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?
Yeah, thats how *I* remember that one...the 'on top of old olympus' one never made sense to me so I stuck with one that made sense LOL
I've never understood mneumonics - memorizing a basically nonsense phrase that's supposed to cue me to remember a set of words that starts with the same letters is no easier for me than just memorizing the original information. I can tell you the order of the planets. I can't tell you whose mother made how many pizzas. And the Old Olympus business is both utterly unmemorable, and gives nothing to distinguish between ocular, olfactory, and optic.
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.
I had three kids before I became a nurse. I had no idea . . . .until I was an L&D nurse.
Funny TMI moment in labor with my 2nd...
In the throes of transition I tell the nurse I need to use the bathroom. She reassures me that it's just the baby pushing down through the birth canal. I insisted. She insisted. I was squatting on the side of the bed. I said ok, I'll just push...
In my rehab clinical I had to document an ulcer forming in a patient's buttcrack... I asked the nurse I was assigned to, "How do I document this? Do I write buttcrack?" We laughed so hard! She wasn't sure... The general consensus ended up being "sacral fold." I work in psych now so it's never relevant... but I'll never forget it.
Specializes in Infection Prevention, Public Health.
I was a CNA waaaaay back in 1992, and I distinctly remember having a patient that took some round green tablets that smelled very GREEN...almost like kale and spearmint had a baby...and they were to minimize the odors from his colostomy. Worked pretty well. Anyone know what that mystery pill was? I've asked the COBs at work and no one knows what I'm talking about
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.
I wish I had your instructor. I made that error. Once. Lol
Longer Longer Longer Drop, now you have your Wenckebach.
Lol! What is a Wenckebach? I am in nursing school now, heading into last semester = critical care. We haven't learned that yet, maybe its forthcoming. I just thought it was hilarious.
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.
Ha, ha, ha, how do you know its warm and sticky if you don't first touch it. Lol!
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I've never understood mneumonics - memorizing a basically nonsense phrase that's supposed to cue me to remember a set of words that starts with the same letters is no easier for me than just memorizing the original information. I can tell you the order of the planets. I can't tell you whose mother made how many pizzas. And the Old Olympus business is both utterly unmemorable, and gives nothing to distinguish between ocular, olfactory, and optic.