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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 know you're in nursing school when...your 9-yr. old daughter comes home from school telling you she got in trouble. Just because she corrected the teacher about the cervical lymph nodes-proper names AND location AND how to palpate them!!! She's going to make a great :nurse:!!!

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Specializes in med-surg.
I found some.

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What a Godsend! Where can I buy? Does it come with tubing and catheter. Never mind, I'll get it out of the lab.....:yeah:

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Specializes in med-surg.
You know when you are in nursing school when...

your DRV is maxed out with episodes of "Untold Stories of the ER", "Diagnosis X" and "Medical Incredible" that you are waiting to watch during summer break.:nurse:

You know you are in nursing school when...

You openly criticize episodes of Gray's Anatomy, House, ER, etc and explain in great detail to family members what they did wrong. My poor dad! He's been recording House so he can watch it when I'm not home.:nuke:

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I found some.

starbucksIV.jpg

You know I was practicing injections (on the ball) at home, so I was drawing up some liquids in the syringe, including coffee and for a moment there I looked at the 3 ml of black coffee and wondered what if............................

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When you have two papers due on Wednesday that account for 10% of final grade in each class and you are on allnurses.com reading this thread:) I justify it as a mental health break!!!

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Specializes in Ante-Intra-Postpartum, Post Gyne.

You know you are in nursing school when:

You have no social life

you have anatmical posters all over your walls

Your out to dinner with a classmate and get dirty looks because you forget that other people do not talk about blood, guts, and BMs while eating

Your bathroom liturature looks like this:, Nursing 2008, AJN, MCN, Student Nurse, Midwifery Today, Nursing Made Incredibly Easy Journal....and Readers Digest (for company)

You can watch surgeries on Discovery Health while eating breakfast without batting an eye

Instead of checking-out hot guys while stating in line at the grochery store you check-out people veins

You spend spring break working on papers and clinical write-ups

You got to bed at 10pm and get up at 2am to study for finals

You know how to spell and pronounce Hydrochlorothiazide and know that its easier just to write HCTZ

You get excited for the weekend because you can get caught up on reading

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Specializes in ICU, Emergency Department.
You know you are in nursing school when:

You have no social life

you have anatmical posters all over your walls

Your out to dinner with a classmate and get dirty looks because you forget that other people do not talk about blood, guts, and BMs while eating

Your bathroom liturature looks like this:, Nursing 2008, AJN, MCN, Student Nurse, Midwifery Today, Nursing Made Incredibly Easy Journal....and Readers Digest (for company)

You can watch surgeries on Discovery Health while eating breakfast without batting an eye

Instead of checking-out hot guys while stating in line at the grochery store you check-out people veins

You spend spring break working on papers and clinical write-ups

You got to bed at 10pm and get up at 2am to study for finals

You know how to spell and pronounce Hydrochlorothiazide and know that its easier just to write HCTZ

You get excited for the weekend because you can get caught up on reading

Omigawsh, are you my twin? Those ALL apply to me, hahahaha.

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Specializes in ICU, Emergency Department.

When you're practicing landmarking for IM injection sites in the lab and you get to the Dorsogluteal site, and you say with a straight face, "I need a real butt instead of this mannequin" and your friends all nod, turn around, and bend over. Hahahaha that was priceless :)

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

your pt doesn't urinate for 6 hours and you think "OMG, anuria!!!" but you don't urinate for 6 hours and you think "good time management"......

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

your pt doesn't urinate for 6 hours and you think "OMG, anuria!!!" but you don't urinate for 6 hours and you think "good time management"......

That is cute... and so true! :nurse:

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Specializes in LTC.
When you're practicing landmarking for IM injection sites in the lab and you get to the Dorsogluteal site, and you say with a straight face, "I need a real butt instead of this mannequin" and your friends all nod, turn around, and bend over. Hahahaha that was priceless :)

But it's so true!

I'm a top heavy girl and when we were practicing finding heart sounds on of my groupmates was having trouble listing to the mitral valve. I had my shirt pulled up to expose a thin tanktop I wore for the occassion, had my breast in hand pulling it out of the way and palpating my chest going "Try here! It's an intercostal space!" I kinda got odd looks from a random classmate that walked by.

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-when you dump your boyfriend because he wants to spend too much time with you

-when your family doesn't bring you yummy take out because they forgot you were home and you have to eat left overs

-when people ask if you're growing your hair out and you say, "No, I just can't afford a haircut."

-when you start making a mental list of all the things you will buy when you graduate and your paycheck just about triples only to find out your mom has made a much longer list of more expensive items she wants you to buy her

-when you stop caring that your check will just about triple and you want out of the program because it is too stressful

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