Specializes in critical care; community health; psych.
When your family members call you with the report on that nasty crud they're coughing up and you ask them the standard questions about their mucus. Then you tell them to consume lots of chicken soup, gargle with warm salt water tid, get plenty of rest and call you in the am or prn.
When your ex-husband who used to call you stupid stands in awe and some fear of those new RN initials coming around the corner just down the road a piece. Success is the very best revenge. Deal with it darling!
When you find yourself in a social situation and you find you have absolutely nothing to talk about EXCEPT school. The conversation then reverts to that crud their coughing up, etc.
Your friends and family are talking about movies and tv shows that you have never heard of and the last movie you saw in the theater was... what was the last movie? Titanic???
When you envy Dora the explorer for her ability to speak many languages as you try to communicate with the non-english speaking patients in your clinical travels. There are really only two words you HAVE to know. Push and pain.
When you imagine yourself as Florence Nightingale flitting about with healing hands and pure heart as you tend to this soldier and that soldier. Imagining is still fun even if someone might think you might be just a bit delusional.
I live an hour away from school & clinical so the night before I always stay in town so I can get my patient assignment and do my care plan before getting up early to go in. Each week I check into the motel with my laptop bag stuffed full of computer and books, my rolling backpack stuffed with books from the day's classes, and a huge suitcase stuffed (you guess it) with more books. The only clothes in there are my pj's because my scrubs are brought in separate on a hanger... People must really wonder what all I'm bringing into their motel room for just ONE SHORT NIGHT!!!
You buy big, white, granny underwear in bulk for fear of not having a clean pair to wear under you attractive, thin, white scrub pants at clinical.
You carry a bleach pen to remove coffee stains (from the 4am drive to clinicals) on those beautiful pants
Your friends are planning a trip for spring break and you are planning on sleeping then getting a head start on next quarter's reading assignments.
You pack more than one book bag for one day of classes because you cannot possibly fit everything you need in one.
You own at least one backpack with wheels.
Once a 4.0 student, your new motto is "C means Continue!"
Beginning to talk to friends outside the nursing student circle and using slang like "...it prevents DNA replication of the virus", "the etiology is..", etc.
Oh MY Goodness!!!! hee hee sooo true! 2 bookbags, 1 on wheels.
4.0 and getting lower.... help!!! C means Continue to be Crazy
instructor told this one...When your doing a discharge to a pt -- and they ask you for the other script b/c u wrote "BID" on the discharge sheet...:rotfl:
IV therapy check-off -- When you get pulled over by the cops on ur way to school with a "tourniquet" wrapped around ur arm --- practice makes perfect is ur only defense. look one hand, i did it.
You hold your breath in the store to pass someone who has just sneezed within 3ft of you without covering their mouth!!! My relationship with germs/viruses/bacteria will never be the same!
Deal with it darling!
*PICURN*
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...when someone has a stomach ache and you ask them when their last BM was (as they stare at you thinking...what's a BM?!?!?!)