Having a little voice in your head remind you that asking "why" is a therapeutic communication block , as you go ahead and ask your friends/family 'Why"....
When you label everyones behavior or actions with a nursing diagnoses. Especially around final exam time when everyone is stressed and eating everything in site or drinking everything in site, we now say they have Ineffective Coping! Or Fluid Volume Excess if someone had a little too much to drink over the week end. :chuckle Or, since I have gained 20 lbs since starting the program........ Altered Nutrition: more than body requirements! :rotfl:
Specializes in critical care; community health; psych.
...you're laying in bed at night drifting off to sleepland (a rare treat) and out of nowhere a thought hits that the safe range of tylenol is 10-15mg/kg which leads to the next thought, and the next...
...you're on AllNurses at 0330 am because you had to get up early to finish those care plans that are due at 0730.
...you get really pissed off when your relatives talk about "the nurse" in the doctor's office and feel the need to set them straight and pronto.
...your mailbox has an invitation from every branch of the armed forces to be all that you can be as one of their nurses. Then you realize that you can't be all that you can be because you're too old.
...You miss the whole point of the story on ER but hang on every lab value, med order and intervention to test your knowledge and pick up any inaccuracies.
I totally agree with the post 2 ahead of me, the ER story. I did it just last night. Luckily for me (but to the groans of my family) we have TiVo so I could pause and rewind to double check the BUN and Creatine values!!!!!!
...when your skin is salty not from working out or sweating but from spilling saline all over yourself while trying to set up that piggyback.
...when holding your boyfriend's hand your thoughts are not about how sweet he is but on what gauge IV cath you could get in it.
...when you show off the Foley you got from school for practice just to gross out all your guy friends by showing them just how it stays in the bladder.
...when your instructor doesn't tell you to go to the bathroom before the test but instead writes to "Palpate you bladder" on the board.
...when you see someone at the grocery store/park/wherever and start diagnosing that funky rash on their legs.
...when you watch movies with friends and see medical inaccuracies you not only point them out but then continue in way too much detail what would really have happened even though everyone just wants you to shut up and watch the movie.
...When a friend is watching their infant cousin and you get excited not because you like babies but because you can practice your Denver assessment.
You know you're a nursing student. When you write notes to the husband or child teacher and include nursing abbreviations. I have actually done that. LOL
Specializes in Lactation Ed, Pp, MS, Hospice, Agency.
...when in clinicals u actually don't mind that horrid smell coming from the bedside toliet and r more worried about how much the pt voided and if u charted it correctly!
.....when your husband/partner asks "do u have to study EVERYDAY?" (YES!)
.....u r relieved that u threw that roast and vegies in the crockpot because it will mean that u will have MORE time to work on that research paper or care plan that is due tomorrow!
....everyone in the house is SICK of u doing assessments on them and the ONLY one that loves it is the dog!
....u see your classmates more then your family!
....u take your kid to the ER and when the triage nurse and/or doctor asks u questions about your child and u start rattling of med terms/levels and they ask u if u work in the med field (and your child uses these same terms to remind u that u forgot something!)
and finally (lol)...u have to go to the ER and actually am excited at the possibility of seeing a cathater inserted into u! :chuckle :chuckle :chuckle
You assess your baby's diaper for color, size and consistency
You have a "no blood, no foul" rule for every arguement between your two and four yr olds.
When said two and four yr olds are bored, you give them makeshift waterguns out of old practice syringes (without the needle of course)
When you know that a spiked temp can be brought down with alternating doses of tylenol and motrin and a cool bath, and you actually try this before calling the pediatrician at 3am
Of course by the time you do call the pediatrician, you are convinced that they have every incurable disease that you learned in lecture that week and you tell all of these concerns to the pediatrician at 3:30am
When you have to change from your really cool flared, low-waisted scrub pants and the adorable scrub top that you wore into work that day, into the dreaded see-thru white pants, and scrub shirt with the giant school emblam on it letting everyone know that you are still "just" a student. (And of course, you are doing this in your car while listening to lecture, going through your care plan in your head, stuffing something in your mouth that at least kinda looks like food, and praying that the guy in the car next to you is admiring your determination to succeed and not your Victoria's Secret miracle bra!!)
...When you bring your stethoscope to your OFFICE JOB so you can listen to the lung sounds of the pack-a-day smokers!
...When people around you complain of stomach pain, and you begin to ask when they had their last BM, or last flatulated. ...and you can't understand anymore why this would be embarrassing to them that you asked!!
...When nobody asks how school is going anymore because you actually TELL them what you've been doing on your clinicals!
and..
...When all you've eaten in the last 3 days is Power Bars, and junk from the vending machine!!
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Having a little voice in your head remind you that asking "why" is a therapeutic communication block , as you go ahead and ask your friends/family 'Why"....