You can compare the smells and appearance of anything coming out of a patient to food.
You talk about certain types of wound treatments and your instructor turns green.
The staff at the restaurant nearby hates to see you and your classmates coming, because of the things you talk about.
You have the ability to dive through one door of the lunchroom, inhale a coffee and a donut and dive through the other door in under 60 seconds--all before your instructor, who was coming down the hall, sees you.
You know you are a nursing student when your husband says to you, "Let's go get something to eat." and you panic and say "Outside, in public, that means I have to get dressed and presentable, and I can't take my books with me. Can't we just get takeout?" Said husband somehow in weeks to come figures out that Outback and Olive Garden have takeout as long as he goes to pick it up. Poor hubby is so excited because he gets a salad when he gets us food from either and before nursing school you made a salad at every meal and he complained! Oi vey! The guilt is killing me! 14 months to go.......
You know you're a nursing student when you say, or your fellow students say, at least once per week (say it with me now....) I AM SO OVER THIS SH**! I WANT TO QUIT.
NOne of us quit but its nice to get it off our chest.
...over dinner, you're 16 yr old son asks what gross things you have seen/done today??? and your dh gets up from the table, totally grossed out, when you described the prolapsed ostomy you saw that day! poor poor hubby :uhoh21:
...your 20 yr old neice calls asking if she is pregnant, but describes S/S of a DEFINITE STD!!! :trout: Go to a doctor...use a condom...DON'T HAVE SEX!!!
...everytime you see a particular family member they state, "Um...I have a question......." :trout:
...when you have to explain to your 39 yr old brother, "no, if two people are virgins and they have anal sex...they will not contract aids!" Good grief...the questions he asks me!
-You skip showering on non-school days because you have so much reading to do...
-you go to Prompt Care the night before a big test with a raging URI and rattle off to the doctor the s/s, and the doc thinks you're a drug-seeker b/c you asked for Vicodin Tuss by name...
your backpack weighs at least half of your weight -- and that's only carrying two classes worth of books in it and a laptop. you start getting neckaches from walking around carrying your back pack.
When you start explaining to people -- in depth -- why you think Mnt. Dew was causing your foot cramps last semester and how 1 liter of coffee on early morning days really isn't that bad in comparison. Normal to late morning days, of course, mean that you are getting up at some time between 5 am and 7 am.
you buy big, white, granny underwear in bulk for fear of not having a clean pair to wear under you attractive, thin, white scrub pants at clinical.
you carry a bleach pen to remove coffee stains (from the 4am drive to clinicals) on those beautiful pants
your friends are planning a trip for spring break and you are planning on sleeping then getting a head start on next quarter's reading assignments.
you pack more than one book bag for one day of classes because you cannot possibly fit everything you need in one.
you own at least one backpack with wheels.
once a 4.0 student, your new motto is "c means continue!"
beginning to talk to friends outside the nursing student circle and using slang like "...it prevents dna replication of the virus", "the etiology is..", etc.
Everytime you go in the local Barnes and Noble to get yet another supplement for class, you have to fight your way through the aisle because there are 8-10 other nursing students from your school, also looking for some book, sometimes you're all looking for the same one.
squeakykitty
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You can compare the smells and appearance of anything coming out of a patient to food.
You talk about certain types of wound treatments and your instructor turns green.
The staff at the restaurant nearby hates to see you and your classmates coming, because of the things you talk about.
You have the ability to dive through one door of the lunchroom, inhale a coffee and a donut and dive through the other door in under 60 seconds--all before your instructor, who was coming down the hall, sees you.