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Lets start a fun thread that describes a nursing students way of life.

For examply always broke but gotta have those drug cards.

stuff like that

You know you are in nursing school when ....

your car looks like its lived in. :chuckle

Your friend comments that your car looks like a library. :uhoh3:

Lunch consists of chewing gum and a bag of peanuts. :balloons:

You are always broke but find money for a NCLEX - RN study guide and hold off on buying a new pair of jeans. :rotfl:

You stare at everyone's neck to see if they have a goiter, or tell you friends who have gas to ambulate ambulate ambulate!

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Specializes in med surg home care PEDS.

You know you in nursing school, when you stay up studying for a pysch test, to finish your case study in med-surg, practice injections every spare moment in clinical lab and had a brain freeze when practicum came and put the wrong size needle on the syringe, have to redo the practicum, are so exhausted you can see straight and am still up at 4am trying to figure out how you could be so dumb, stressed, to blow a skill you knew like the back of your hand

God help us all I don't know if I am going to make it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PS I haven't brought my self any new clothes, except nursing shoes or scrub pants since I don't know when

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Specializes in med-surg.

When you stay up so late studying that you skip taking a shower just to sleep another 15 minutes!

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You and another student are hiding in a pt. bathroom squeezing urine out of your shoe for an I&O because the urinal was knocked off of the bed rail. The instructor catches you, informs you the results will not be accurate. By the way, she walked out of the room laughing and shaking her head.

Now THAT'S funny!!! I can just picture it!

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When your idea of a compromise between what you want to do (take a long, hot bubble bath) and what you should do (study for that pharm test) is that you get into the bathtub with your pharm cards!

OMG that is me! Walking with my flash cards, driving (passenger) with flash cards, bathing with flash cards!

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You know you are in nursing school when you start to wonder why you match all of the mental disorder characteristics....:chuckle

IM going to add to this

you know your in Nursing School when you start to link mental disorders to x-bfs or family members.

:lol2:

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When you stay up so late studying that you skip taking a shower just to sleep another 15 minutes!

That's so gross... but so true!:uhoh21:

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You know you're a nursing student when:

the cat starts looking like a good substitute for a newborn for practicing your newborn assessment.

I spent alot of time trying to listen to my cats heart and lung sounds, but he purrs too much and he started biting my stethoscope!

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You know you are a nursing student when your husband sleeps on the couch because you are surrounded by your books, papers, and paraphenalia from school.

You know you are a nursing student when you try to get the one person in class thats taken phlebotomy as your learning partner for I.V. certification.

You know you are in nursing school when you have taken every ones pulse, BP, temp, etc. in the house. Includes relatives unlucky enough to drop by when the stethescopes out.

Haven't read them all, sorry if I repeated any.:uhoh21:

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okay here's another one....not sure if this one was mentioned

You know you are a nursing student when...

you lie down to study, to which you wake up at 3 in the morning to find all your text book, drug guide, medical dictionary, pages and pages of powerpoints, and more pages from notes you were taking AND your macbook all sharing the bed with you, with every single light you own is on, and you just wake up, put your glasses back on and continue studying like you weren't just passed out a minute ago!!!

Exactly, especially the night before a test!

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You know you're a nursing student when...

You have to get up at 0430 for clinicals and you're still up at 0200 because you're afraid that you'll oversleep and be late for clinicals. :bugeyes:

You'd rather spend your money on a new nursing book than a new outfit.

The only clothes you've bought yourself in the last year have been scrubs and nursing shoes.

You can write a whole sentence using approved abbreviations ( I stole this one, but couldn't find it again to quote it).

I can't think of anymore right now, but I got plenty. This post is a lot of fun!

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You know you're a nursing student when....

.....every person in your family calls you for an instant ailment fix

.....you've forgotten what 'marital relations' are because it's not a NANDA approved nursing Dx

.....non-nursing school friends are tired of asking "What's that mean?" so they just stop calling as often

....your kids start calling you 'Dr. Mom'

:yeah:

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