What FUNNY but IMPORTANT things did you learn this semester in nursing school?

I don't have much to offer, but thanks for the laugh!!

Don't go out with friends the night before your 6 am clinicals. You will fall asleep at the nurses station, and you fellow nursing students will roll you into a empty room. You will wake up disoriented and run into a door. The resulting bruise will be the cause of laughter until it fades.

Don't pull another nursing student into the bathroom with you because you need to vent. Especially if the other student is of the opposite sex. If you do this in front of you clinical instructor you will be teased mercilessly for it.

Don't accidently announce to the entire class that your lady parts is "textbook" according to your gyno. I was tired, and when i'm tired my brain moves slower than my mouth.

There is no therapeutic communication technique to use with your mannequin client when his member accidentally detaches from his body while inserting a foley catheter DURING YOUR COMPETENCY

This was during foley practice in our lab...my group had finished with the 'female' mannequin and the instructor said, "let me see if I can find another member so you all get a chance to practice." How do you respond to that? I think we managed a collective, "okay," then couldn't look at each other because we were all trying so hard not to bust out laughing!

I learned not to put member on a female dummy (by mistake) when a student is just about to make a head to toe asses.

Don't get nervous if a physician asks you a simple question (i.e., how much did you empty from the Foley), and because you're so nervous and think it's taking too long to answer - don't yell it at the top of your lungs once you find your voice. :imbar

Don't ever, and I mean never, inject anything into a patient's member!

Not that I did this, but I had a pt. who I had to give insulin to, and he was MOST concerned that I not use this particular site!

It got me wondering: who had done that to him in the past? Yikes!

I learned that when DCing an IV, make sure the catheter is completely free and away from the gauze before you lift it away from the patient. You will catch the end of the catheter on the gauze, and it will flick blood droplets all over your forehead! :chuckle:eek:

Don't wear your stethoscope around your neck when rolling a disorientated patient towards you. *choke* choke* He'll grab each end in stead of the rails

Don't ever, and I mean never, inject anything into a patient's member!

Not that I did this, but I had a pt. who I had to give insulin to, and he was MOST concerned that I not use this particular site!

It got me wondering: who had done that to him in the past? Yikes!

I know one student in our class to inject a patient's member with something to stop his priaprism so maybe it was this dood lol

There is no therapeutic communication technique to use with your mannequin client when his member accidentally detaches from his body while inserting a foley catheter DURING YOUR COMPETENCY

I don't have much to offer, but... :chuckle

"How does this member-detachment make you feel?"

Thanks for making my whole day... :chuckle

I don't have much to offer, but... :chuckle

"How does this member-detachment make you feel?"

Thanks for making my whole day... :chuckle

"Is this normal for you? Does member detachment run in your family?"