your dreams consist of your classmates and your performance in nursing school...
Oh geez, that is the truth! The other night I dreamed a classmate and I were having problems setting an IV pump. I was awoken from the dream by loud static coming from the television. I had the remote in my hand and was mashing buttons on it - the TV remote was the IV pump interface in my dream
So, I am starting the ADN program at CSCC in the fall and have to tell ya that these are HILARIOUS!! I am in Micro now and everyone is already sick of hearing about spread of microbes and disease. Thanks for the laugh!! Gotta get back to those books!
i wish i would have found this site while i was still in nursing school. i was a teacher already so i did 2 semesters in an accelerated program and learned nothing except how tachycardia and an anxiety disorder feels. then i got accepted to um and spent two years in a place somewhere between limbo and hell but i realize now that was a special time in my life and though i would never want to go through it again, i realize that i appreciate where and what i am now that much more. it really is true...what does not kill us, makes us a nurse.:heartbeat
i still love tlc and untold stories of the er, maternity ward and as for er, you look at it in a very different way. i find myself yelling at the tv saying, "that would never happen!" you realize, in nursing school, how ;)little food, sleep, attention, affection, and people around you, you can get by with. you realize what is really important in life. looking at strangers' arms to assess their veins and listening to people coughing and looking at "discolorations" on strangers' skin, that at more, does not change. if anything it gets worse. then, you have family members who will not take new medicine their md prescribes because they have learned to look up the med themselves and "hey, i do not want those side effects! how can he give me a medication that will give me diarrhea and nausea and vomitting?" but, you will still be the medical consultant for your family and neighborhood. i give my neighbor her b12 shot because she says i have a feather light touch, not like the "brute" in her doctors' office.:chuckle but then you also become the gestapo because you visit family or friends in the hospital and are critical of all that happens or does not happen, as the case may be. i do research now at a level 1 and realize that white scrubs still are all i have in my closet, and, i feel like i stand out as a nurse when i wear them and , other people know what i do. research shows that nursing is still the most respected and "believed" professions. and i am proud to be one. and all of you that are on this magical journey or those that are trying to find their way to begin, you all should feel very proud of yourselves too. this is a wonderful family to belong to, one with unique understanding. you understand what another nurse goes through perhaps easier than those people within your own family. and while i have heard and experienced nurses that eat their young, i would rather set the example and be a nurturing, caring, educating, counseling, understanding, beacon for all to see how wonderful nurses can be. i want to be that nurse that someone, one of my patients or someone who asks me a question, even stops to ask me for directions or an opinion or for a referral to a doctor for them, i want to be that nurse that they remember and smile. i further want for you to go home at the end of your day, be it in the morning or at night, and collapse in bed and though you are exhausted, you can pass out with a smile on your face and know in your heart that you did a good job today and you would not want to do anything else.
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!
hahahahahaha! Just did that last night after clinicals! Too funny
i do research now at a level 1 and realize that white scrubs still are all i have in my closet, and, i feel like i stand out as a nurse when i wear them and , other people know what i do. research shows that nursing is still the most respected and "believed" professions. and i am proud to be one.
and all of you that are on this magical journey or those that are trying to find their way to begin, you all should feel very proud of yourselves too. this is a wonderful family to belong to, one with unique understanding. you understand what another nurse goes through perhaps easier than those people within your own family. and while i have heard and experienced nurses that eat their young, i would rather set the example and be a nurturing, caring, educating, counseling, understanding, beacon for all to see how wonderful nurses can be. i want to be that nurse that someone, one of my patients or someone who asks me a question, even stops to ask me for directions or an opinion or for a referral to a doctor for them, i want to be that nurse that they remember and smile. i further want for you to go home at the end of your day, be it in the morning or at night, and collapse in bed and though you are exhausted, you can pass out with a smile on your face and know in your heart that you did a good job today and you would not want to do anything else.
jeanyis
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Oh geez, that is the truth! The other night I dreamed a classmate and I were having problems setting an IV pump. I was awoken from the dream by loud static coming from the television. I had the remote in my hand and was mashing buttons on it - the TV remote was the IV pump interface in my dream