You know you are a Nursing student when...

OB-nurse2013, BSN, RN · Apr 23, 2011

:hug: Don't give up.

Awww thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:heartbeat It's been a tough week and on top of everything I was studying for a cummulative final and had my binder with all my practice questions and pp's and all my class papers outside and I ran in the house to switch loads and my husbands 1 year old dog (his dog not mine :) detroyed and covered my backyard in chewed up notes and power-points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I salvaged a few but not much!!!!!!! :mad:

Jack245 · Apr 24, 2011

At a family function, the relative with a newborn baby gets squeamish when he has to change his baby's diaper and you think "Oh please, I could do that one handed, give me a real challenge."

Ftr_NurseJackie · Apr 24, 2011

When you pull up to church and see no cars.....oh yeah it's Saturday! *drives back home and finish studying*

MsPC · Apr 24, 2011

when you stand in line somewhere and start mentally making care plans for things i observe: impaired physical mobility related to unsteady gait.

when you notice at the beginning of a movie something as unimportant as someone giving themselves an insulin shot and no one else noticed then finding out its significance later in the movie...

digitiminimi · Apr 24, 2011

You only see your friends every 8 weeks

You don't know any new songs because you listen to class lectures in the car

You're snuggled next to your significant other arm-in-arm, then start taking their radial pulse, then brachial, maybe even carotid while you're at it

Your significant other has become a practice dummy for every skill you learn

You finally understand what House is talking about (really!)

Watching Mystery Diagnosis becomes guess-the-diagnosis hour

You look at very elderly people at the store and think how blessed and lucky they are to be in good health and out in the world instead of in a home

There's at least one room in your house filled with textbooks, stacked with an insane amount of papers, power points, floor covered with pens, highlighters etc.

You plan meals based on how much time they will take to prepare and if the recipe involves chopping anything - forget about it!

You've never had an energy drink in your life and now they are your after-clinicals ritual (Yay for 5-hour energy!)

You stop studying every couple hours to walk around b/c you are scared you're going to get DVT

You go to the mall and feel like you have stepped into another world

You regularly get text messages that say "Remember me?" "When are we going out???" and "Are you dead?"

There is a laundry mountain in your laundry room.

Certifiable, BSN, RN · Apr 24, 2011

You feel like throwing your 10 kg med-surg textbook at your sister, when she complains how hard it is to study Art History....

Kateoh82 · Apr 24, 2011

This is really silly, but i think you know you're a nursing student when random medical terms, anatomy, or anything I've learned that day just seem to pop in my head particularily when I'm in the shower...

fleur-di-lis-RN2b · Apr 24, 2011

You only see your friends every 8 weeks
You don't know any new songs because you listen to class lectures in the car
You're snuggled next to your significant other arm-in-arm, then start taking their radial pulse, then brachial, maybe even carotid while you're at it
Your significant other has become a practice dummy for every skill you learn
You finally understand what House is talking about (really!)
Watching Mystery Diagnosis becomes guess-the-diagnosis hour
You look at very elderly people at the store and think how blessed and lucky they are to be in good health and out in the world instead of in a home
There's at least one room in your house filled with textbooks, stacked with an insane amount of papers, power points, floor covered with pens, highlighters etc.
You plan meals based on how much time they will take to prepare and if the recipe involves chopping anything - forget about it!
You've never had an energy drink in your life and now they are your after-clinicals ritual (Yay for 5-hour energy!)
You stop studying every couple hours to walk around b/c you are scared you're going to get DVT
You go to the mall and feel like you have stepped into another world
You regularly get text messages that say "Remember me?" "When are we going out???" and "Are you dead?"
There is a laundry mountain in your laundry room.

Your answers are priceless and so dead on! (loved the House and DVT remarks, hahaha!)

The only thing I can add is...

You now value pockets like never before and have learned how much you can shove in them.. :lol2:

Ftr_NurseJackie · Apr 24, 2011

Your boyfriend breaks up with you! *starts singing, "so what, I'm still a rock star and got my rock moves and I don't need you!" (Pink)*

Your kid only says to you, "Mom are you about to study? Mom are you studying? Mom why aren't you studying?"

You pots and pans gather rust on them

No one even expects to see you during holidays

Eating out is a luxury

When you have notecards ready at any given moment to begin a session (store, bball game, date, etc.)

SurroDoula · Apr 24, 2011

When, for a few days after finals, you feel as though you should be studying something, and feel guilty for not studying anything.

Aly529 · Apr 25, 2011

Awww thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:heartbeat It's been a tough week and on top of everything I was studying for a cummulative final and had my binder with all my practice questions and pp's and all my class papers outside and I ran in the house to switch loads and my husbands 1 year old dog (his dog not mine :) detroyed and covered my backyard in chewed up notes and power-points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I salvaged a few but not much!!!!!!!

Oh wow. Extra stress not needed. Understood. I can only imagine how mad I'd be... :rolleyes: You'll get through it. You'll laugh about it one day.

Brekka, ADN, RN · Apr 25, 2011

When, for a few days after finals, you feel as though you should be studying something, and feel guilty for not studying anything.

I spent half of my Christmas break doing that. And after I relaxed, I was stressing over not stressing. Nursing students are hard workers and feel naked when not working.

You know you're a nursing student when...

...you have a binder for everything, including your children.

...your dinner conversations usually revolve around the interesting wound or drainage your patient had.

...you start scheduling breakdowns.

...you have to purchase a new bookshelf just for your first semester books.

...you start naming your pets after drugs.

...you become aware that a rolling suitcase is not just for travel.

...you have family and friends visit you instead of their primary physician.

...you are proud of the fact that you can spell diarrhea.