You know you're in nursing school when....

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I'm sure this has been done before but I figured I'd do it anyway!

You know you're in nursing school when......

Your mind is thinking about so many different things that you actually have to stop and make sure you have on all of your clothes before you leave the house!

Specializes in Ante-Intra-Postpartum, Post Gyne.

You know that you graduate in:

53 days

1291 hours

77502 minutes

4650151 seconds

:yeah:

Specializes in Cardiac Care.

You wait till springbreak to get the flu, because you can't miss even 1 minute of class or clinical.

Re: You know you're in nursing school when....

I didn't read all the posts but...

when the library is your new home.

Specializes in acute care.

You don't say "I got an 85 on the exam".

You say "I got an 85.67"

Well, every point counts in nursing school.

WOW 85? Man our passing was 87, and if your grade was an 86.8, its not an 87 its an 86.8 you just failed a test.

another one:

... you dont need an alarm clock to wake up, your body is already used to waking up at the same time M-F.

You study on the bottom floor of the library because your back hurts too badly from the weight of your books to make it up an extra flight of stairs.

you drive away from class with your favorite coffee mug on top of your jeep...

when your dear hubby doesn't bother to ask what is for dinner anymore...and just brings home take-out!

Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.

you start using the nursing process to figure out what to do about your 15 year old acting so moody

I thought I was the only one that did this.

Nope I do it too...LOL Thought it was just my age.

Specializes in Mostly geri :).

Me personally, I have:

Went in the order tought in lab to shower myself and, for a brief moment(I was sleep deprived)-panicked because I didn't knock on the door first. Also, woke up in the middle of the night to feed my cat and almost went to chart his intake and output.

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