-you have an alarm clock..your cell alarm and a wristwatch all set to go off in time for clinicals and you still wake up an hour early feeling like you overslept and can't finish that last hour of precious sleep
-your family makes you stop talking because you explain why fiber is good for their poo....hey they asked :)
-you call your best friend on her birthday and tell her you will have to get together as soon as finals are over.
-you can't leave allnurses.com because you feel like there are actually other people out there that understand what you are going through!
Specializes in SNU/SNF/MedSurg, SPCU Ortho/Neuro/Spine.
1- you have nightmares involving the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems
2- you walk around thinking of the names of muscles and things like that
3- you look at your co-workers and starting naming their bones
4- all of a sudden you start thinking of a&p stuff
5- when you are really tired and wanting to go to sleep your mind keep thinking of bones, muscles, tissues, and making the most weird connection among them that makes no sense other than keeping you awake
6- you touch your own bones just to make sure you remember their names
7- after taking micro you start getting grossed out about a whole bunch of things
8- you try to rhyme stuff and which sounds stupid but really helps you out!
9- you make the most uncommon associations and make your own words to remember things...
10- you cant wait until this is over so you can get to your real nursing classes
11- you cant wait to learn how to draw blood
12- get excited and cat wait to learn how to apply injections
13- you really love the idea and can't wait for your clinicals
14- but when the date gets closer you are actually really scared about it!!!
15- you think A&P is amazing!
16- but when you get to dissect stuff and when you smell it the fist time you feel like you just want to walk out!!!!
17- you start shaking really bad when you are going to dissect your first pig
18- you study so much that you confuse yourself
19- coffe is your best friend
20- mountain dew is the juice from heaven
21- red bull really gives you wings- after a few of them you just want to throw it all up!
22- you don't go to your friend's party because you have to learn the sperm flow!
23- you start getting upset how come a tyny little cell can have so many things inside of it!!
24- instead of going to the movies you make flash cards about the Na K pump
25- you can recite dna - rna - protein sinthesys process
26- you can actually do it bacwards!
27- you use your kids and nephews as "manequins" so you can study the bones
28- you will eat pasta and meatballs while watching trauma unit on the TV
29- you feel like you are becoming a member of starbucks!
~You don't sleep; and when you do, you have nightmares about exploding heads with brains leaking out onto your desk.
~You learn the time the landlord puts on the sprinklers (3:45 am) by experience because that's the only time you have to get to the supermarket.
~You call your father's MD about his broken ribs, and discuss pathological fractures in an otherwise healthy 86 year old.
~You break bones in your face, and have all your fellow student nurses feel the divots in your supraorbital cup (I fell off my horse onto my face. I was wearing a helmet, and yes, took two exams with post concussive syndrome. This is not advised.).
~You sustain a giant hematoma on your leg (from the same accident), and bug your MD about DVTs, positive Homan's signs, and compartment syndrome...'cause you got all three at once, and the MD just laughs.
~When you're sitting there, being evaluated for a subdural hematoma, and you're wearing your school t-shirt...and the MD starts quizzing you on why no pain meds will be RX'd...and you get all the answers right...and it doesn't help the pain at all, but you feel quite proud of yourself.
~You use the bruises you're sporting on your face and leg to develop rapport with your clinical patient.
So many other things...but those will do for this morning...
Wow, I just read all..lets see..354 of these. I can't wait until I can contribute, but until then, I'm making my friends nervous warning them that I want to practice on them :) :sofahider
You consider just going to buy new socks & underwear rather than search through the five baskets of piled up laundry that you have no time to sort through and put away.
It would be so much easier to just buy some new stuff! But, then again, I am in nursing school which also means.. I'm broke! LOL
Here's a great one that happened to me last night...
You know you're in NS when you are sitting at Zaxby's with your best friend (who is a history major)...waiting on your to-go order...you cough really hard and something flies out of your mouth...you hold it in your hand...squeeze it...assess it for color and odor and say, "I should probably get on some antibiotics before this gets too bad"...and your friend gags and wretches next to you...hahahahahahaha...
Here's a great one that happened to me last night...
You know you're in NS when you are sitting at Zaxby's with your best friend (who is a history major)...waiting on your to-go order...you cough really hard and something flies out of your mouth...you hold it in your hand...squeeze it...assess it for color and odor and say, "I should probably get on some antibiotics before this gets too bad"...and your friend gags and wretches next to you...hahahahahahaha...
:chuckle
Or that you're so excited when your clinical instructor accidently steps in your patient's bowel movement because you finally have your first nursing poo storey!!! (By the way, my instructor was very cool about it, until she left the room and started laughing her head off!)
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You know you're in nursing school when...
You reach over to hold your husbands wrist.... and he asks you: "Are you taking my pulse?"