You know you are in nursing school when ctxt

[tnstudentnurse]

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.

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:

[teeniebert, LPN]

...you're emptying the bedside commode of a resident with C-diff, and, despite the foul smell/repugnance of the task at hand, you feel your stomach rumble and start thinking longingly of the ham and cheese sandwich waiting in the break room refrigerator.

[lvnhopeful]

Okay now, I've smelled C-diff, and though I don't have a queazy stomach, I don't think I could simultaneously empty that pot and think longingly of food of any kind!

[Surferschick329]

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

During your first semester of clinicals you go from cringing at the idea of giving someone a bed bath to begging your preceptor if she'll let you just so you can actually touch a patient!

[squeakykitty]

...you're emptying the bedside commode of a resident with C-diff, and, despite the foul smell/repugnance of the task at hand, you feel your stomach rumble and start thinking longingly of the ham and cheese sandwich waiting in the break room refrigerator.

Or you can watch a dressing change on a big bad bedsore with plenty of yellow exudate just before lunch, and order the stir-fried veggie dish when lunchtime comes. When you go to eat it you think to yourself that the squash is the same color as the exudate, and you still eat it anyway.

Okay now, I've smelled C-diff, and though I don't have a queazy stomach, I don't think I could simultaneously empty that pot and think longingly of food of any kind!

I must be twisted, because I can describe the stuff I've seen in anatomy class and on the floor in food terms.

[happilymarried]

You know you're in nursing school when:

you shake someone's hand and look at their hands and say to yourself,"Could I get an IV in that vein on the first stick?":uhoh21:

Terrific, you are cracking me up!!! :chuckle

[kakykeke]

Once a 4.0 student, your new motto is "C means Continue!"

----------> HAHAHAHA

[coltsgrl]

...you can't sleep the night before your "poke a peer" day in skills because of excitement, not fear.

WIRN2B

soooo many of these were REALLY funny, but something about the "poke-a-peer day" just got me laughin so hard I'm cryin!! THANKS!! :hpygrp:

[Hubby's girl]

You are running around answering lights and the regular floor nurses are standing around talking with each other!

[VICEDRN, BSN, RN]

You ask your ex-husband to watch the kids at...4:30 in the morning.

[motivated2nurse]

You know youre in nursing school when

everyone who calls you on the phone says, Hi whatcha doin' studyin'......... before every conversation.

[pharmgirl]

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.

LMAOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! :lghmky:

[86toronado, BSN, RN]

-You realize you've eaten nothing but graham crackers, peanut butter, and diet pepsi for 2 days

-You hear call bells in your sleep.

-You glance at the arms and hands of everyone you meet to see if they'd be an easy stick (and don't even know you're doing it).

And finally, this happened to me last night:

-The convenience store clerk where you stop almost every night for your midnight munchies asks you to feel his glands!