You know you are a Nursing student when...

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Specializes in Mental Health.

Some of you probably have seen a thread like this already.

I put this one up to "freshen-up" the forum.

I am pretty sure everyone has at least something they can throw up onto here.

So, I ask you fellow nursing student (or nursing student alumni)....what makes a Nursing student....erm...a Nursing student?

:yeah:

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Specializes in PICU, Sedation/Radiology, PACU.

You know you are a nursing student when:

You work a 12 hour shift for free.

You stay home on a Friday night, and a Saturday night, and a Sunday night... because you have to memorize the action and side effects of 100 medications by Monday.

You believe that the way you learned to do things in school is actually the way they are done in the hospitals.

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When you wish you could just buy highlighters and flashcards by the case.

When getting up at 7 am is considered sleeping in.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Postpartum.

...when home, I seem to scrub my hands longer than usual, making sure I get between my fingers, under my nails, and not let my hands fall below my waist.

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When you spend more time browing through allnurses.com than you do on youtube. ;)

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Specializes in Oncology/hematology.

When your day is divided into units of time- kina like that book "about a boy" (or the hugh grant movie if you'd like...)---- sleep-food-bus-class-food-class-food-class-food-class-food-class-bus-food-study-shower-sleep.... rinse and repeat :)

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When you stop painting your fingernails.

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When you study for 2 weeks straight for a test .. hoping to make at least a 78 .. :confused:

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When you use the left over supplies from your nursing lab kit when dyeing your hair. Incontinence pad on the shoulders, blue gloves on your hands and you're ready to roll!

When you can't watch medical shows without pointing out all the glaring mistakes they make (come on, people, is it really that hard to wear the stethoscope properly?)

When your siblings start telling you to shut it during dinner table conversations because you're talking about blood and poop again.

When the night before your bio final you have nightmares where you mix up the material and then you wake up to recite the said material to yourself in order to make sure that you actually know the right stuff.

When you tell your friends to stop complaining about having to write a 5-page paper because you just wrote a 20-page one.

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It's 11:00 in the morning (5 hours into your shift); your watching the wound-care nurse change out a wound vac dressing on a very messy wound and you mind is drifting to "Man, I'm starving" : )

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You reposition yourself in bed q2h to prevent a decubitus ulcer from forming.

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.
It's 11:00 in the morning (5 hours into your shift); your watching the wound-care nurse change out a wound vac dressing on a very messy wound and you mind is drifting to "Man, I'm starving" : )

When you lavage an OD's stomach and you think you cant wait to get home to eat some soup.

When you go to the bar....for lunch....and talk about BMs....

When the ladies at the bookstore see your schedule and go "oh boy ill just get a shopping cart"

When you examine every known persons veins betting the gauge you can get in and in the amount of time

Then going to lab and practicing on yourself/others for fastest time just for fun.

When you are in bed with a manakin more than your bf/gf

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