Things I've Learned From Medical Students

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

if a little old man poseyed into a geriatric chair is struggling manfully to open the door to the stairwell, do not help him to open the door.

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[color=#4b0082]if you've helped the little old man to open the door, do not run from the inevitable result to locate the charge nurse of the closest nursing unit to bashfully admit "i may have made a little mistake."

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[color=#4b0082]do not volunteer to transport your patient to ct scan unless you're prepared to actually pay attention to the patient while on your road trip. nurses get rather surly when you bring them back a dead patient while enthusing about what a "cool ct scan" it was! nurses get downright ugly the second time you do this!

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[color=#4b0082]a med student at the top of his class may have extreme difficulty in a) locating a bedpan that's within six inches of him and b) figuring out where to place it relative to the patient who has to use it.

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[color=#4b0082]a medical student at the top of his class may have difficulty figuring out which hole to place the foley into on a female patient with normal anatomy. even married med students sometimes encounter this difficulty.

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[color=#4b0082]whatever disease their lecture is covering, the med students are sure to find it in your patient population!

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[bargainhound, RN]

Cute.

But what about things med students have learned from us....seriously.

[scrubnurse]

Cute.

But what about things med students have learned from us....seriously.

If you are fixing to transfer an OR patient from the OR table to the stretcher, please take a moment to make sure you are NOT standing on the chest tube!!!

[Aneroo, LPN]

One of the moments when nursing school all started to click? The day I had to do a project at a free clinic with a bunch of first year med students, one 4th year, and a MD. Before the patients came, I was in the back teaching the first year students how to take a BP and finger stick. WOW! I felt so smart! -Andrea