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

[Valasca]

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!

[LA_StudentNurse]

You know when you friends have given up calling and have moved on

and/or when your friends now consist of other nursing students

[Nepenthe Sea]

...when you set THREE alarm clocks for the morning that you have to get up at 4:00 A.M. for clinicals.

....you put yourself to sleep at night by going over the steps for I.V. insertion, physical assessment, or whatever skill you are learning and need to check off soon.

...many of your conversations start off with, "I was reading on this nursing forum the other day..."

[SNtil11]

when your room looks like a war zone because you can only clean when you're on break, and once you're on break, cleaning is the last think you want to do. and you wait to do laundry until you run out of clean underwear! (please say i am not the only one.... come on.... admit it!)

[seasoned hopeful]

when you are taking notes in class, writing down all these long and technical terms. and forget how to write simple words, like should, would or simple words you learned in first grade.:yeah::nurse:

[Coriander, BSN, RN]

When your emotions range from excited to exhausted to exhilarated to proud to scared to peaceful in the space of a 6 hour class.

[whichone'spink, BSN, RN]

You know you are in nursing school when...

You have considered installing an autoclave system in your house to step into after coming back from the hospital.

You are sooo tempted to launch into COLDSPA every time you hear someone complain about pain.

Your cuticles are so chapped and bleeding from hand-washing. And it doesn't help that you live in an area of the country that does not get much moisture.

Your tolerance for yucky, gross things only increases as you go through clinicals.

[flygirl117]

...you come home from class and your significant other already has a shot of tequila poured for you.

...you have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA how you did on your first exam. Man, those questions are tricky.

...you recite the rules of patient safety while you're in the shower.

...you recite the 10 rights for meds while you're in the shower.

...you recite anything demo-related while you're in the shower.

[airforcebili]

i cant wait

[airforcebili]

You speak only in abbreviations

sounds like being in the military

[~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN]

You're at home and gathering your kids up to go out and tell them they need to run upstairs and void before you go, your kids give you that look again and try to figure out what you are wanting them to do.

You now have an endless supply of tape, alcohol wipes and sani wipes at home from emptying your pockets when you get home.

You tell your kids to rate their pain from a scale of 1-10 when they get hurt.

When your kids are being bad, you threaten to practice injections on them.

When your pt is down and out about getting a fistula for dialysis in, you let them know how cool the staff thinks they are and how they are more unique then the other pt and they feel better.

When you start clinicals and are told you are giving a suppository (your first one) and you are scared/excited and brag at post conference that you did one. (after that first one it's no longer exciting :stone )

[bambam1288]

when everyone keeps asking you "are you an RN yet so you can take care of me?" (Usually older family members.)

I know ... happens all the time:nurse:

[bambam1288]

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

when you have 3 days off in the middle of your qaurter and are wondering what the hell do I do now

when your friends ask to meet and chat and your first answer is the library cuz thats where you live now.

when you can relate to all 10 pages of this post and are lauphing your a$$ off.