1. when you are so busy going back to school and working that you have not had a life of your own for years but the first thing you do when you have free time is look up your old nursing sites......
2. when you move several states away ...... more than once.....get into a new area of nursing and you hunt down your old nursing sites because it feels like "going back home"....
3. when you sign back in after what feels like forever and recognize names that you knew from back in the old days....
4. when you cannot remember your old password because it was programmed into your old desktop p.c. that crashed 2 computers ago and you have to set up a new account.....
5. when you cannot figure out paypal but you want to use your old avatar and your lost with all the new threads the site has now a days.....
6. when you are scared to post without finding spell checker cause even with going back to school you can't spell worth a toot....
7. when you look at all of the posts since you read last and realize you are not going to "catch up on everything in just a few hours"......
Specializes in RETIREDMed nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
lindseylpn/post #192----A-ha-ha-ha...I just went to give you kudos for this particular posting, only to discover I did so a little over a month ago! AND posted something myself. Now to add an "update"...I know I've been on the allnurses site for too lonf BECAUSE it is 3:05 AM and I just spelled "long" with an "f" instead of a "g"..............AND because I am sitting here with one eye closed so as to focus my blurry eyes better ( and because my husband just said "GO TO BED!":zzzzz
lindseylpn/post #192----A-ha-ha-ha...I just went to give you kudos for this particular posting, only to discover I did so a little over a month ago! AND posted something myself. Now to add an "update"...I know I've been on the allnurses site for too lonf BECAUSE it is 3:05 AM and I just spelled "long" with an "f" instead of a "g"..............AND because I am sitting here with one eye closed so as to focus my blurry eyes better ( and because my husband just said "GO TO BED!":zzzzz
LOL! I lay in bed almost every night by the light of my laptop only hearing the same thing from my hubs!
This may not apply here but, I'm severely addicted so...
You know you're addicted to Allnurses when...
...You're getting your last fix in (reading as many posts as possible) before leaving on a week-long trip where there will be no internet, while your hubby is standing nearby looking at his watch and tapping his foot and you're excuse is "honey, I'm just trying to wake up!"
...you're trying to figure out how in the world you're gonna survive the week without your hourly AN fix and what you're gonna do with all that free time...
Specializes in RETIREDMed nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
217) when you keep finding new threads to the point that the next time you log in (12-24 hrs) you find 39 an message-responses and nothing from your personal contact list.....and you think oh goody!
Scarlette Wings
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you know you are addicted to a nursing board:
1. when you are so busy going back to school and working that you have not had a life of your own for years but the first thing you do when you have free time is look up your old nursing sites......
2. when you move several states away ...... more than once.....get into a new area of nursing and you hunt down your old nursing sites because it feels like "going back home"....
3. when you sign back in after what feels like forever and recognize names that you knew from back in the old days....
4. when you cannot remember your old password because it was programmed into your old desktop p.c. that crashed 2 computers ago and you have to set up a new account.....
5. when you cannot figure out paypal but you want to use your old avatar and your lost with all the new threads the site has now a days.....
6. when you are scared to post without finding spell checker cause even with going back to school you can't spell worth a toot....
7. when you look at all of the posts since you read last and realize you are not going to "catch up on everything in just a few hours"......