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

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You or your family member is sick and you bring out the stethoscope to see if you can hear abnormal lung or bowel sounds!

Wow, this is so true! Well, I was on the opposite side. My mom, a former nurse was having a extreme sugar spike at 3am at the very night I went to visit. After doing my best to calm her down, I called my ex, who at that time was a nursing student for advice on anything I needed to do before I took her to the hospital. I dunno, but she was the first person that came to mind to ask for advice, lol!

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2bLVNme said:
I know I was real happy with a 78. If by chance I did get 100% it was like an episode of Punked!

? HAHA for real me too LOL

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SamAcct said:
Wow, this is so true! Well, I was on the opposite side. My mom, a former nurse was having a extreme sugar spike at 3am at the very night I went to visit. After doing my best to calm her down, I called my ex, who at that time was a nursing student for advice on anything I needed to do before I took her to the hospital. I dunno, but she was the first person that came to mind to ask for advice, LOL!

I know this is yuck and probably not what you want to think about with your mother in the same paragraph BUT in class the other day, my instructor was talking about hypoglycemia and what to do if they are pass out already. I never knew the things you could do with a BabyRuth and I will probably NEVER eat one again ?

(again, sorry, but I had to share and give a laugh!)

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I love this thread! :yeah:

* When your car looks like you're living in it

* You're always broke but find the money to buy an NCLEX study guide

* When your idea of compromise between what you want to do (take a nice long bath) and what you should do (study for your test!) is to jump in the tub with your notecards!

* When a family says "I have a headache" and they look at you like you have some sort of magical cure

* You clean stuff with alcohol wipes that you stole from the hospital

* You have to stop yourself from using abbreviations (re, r/t, c, s, etc) when talking to your non-nursing friends.

* You dream about the material you have been studying

* You see your classmates more than your family

* You read one of your nursing texts to induce sleep

* The people at Starbucks [or insert other coffee shop name here] know you by name.

* Everytime you walk, you make a rattling noise with all of the scissors, pens and hemostats in your pockets.

* You need to buy notecards in bulk

* You read your flashcards or notes while walking in between classes or while you're driving :eek:

* Someone calls or IM's you and asks what you're doing, you say "studying"

* Someone asks what you're doing this weekend, you say "studying"

* You have no social life

* You feel that all of the other majors just "don't get it"

* You barely talk to anyone outside of nursing d/t lack of time

* You can get extra credit by wearing Depends to class

...:D

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shrimpchips said:

* When your car looks like you're living in it

* You're always broke but find the money to buy an NCLEX study guide

* When your idea of compromise between what you want to do (take a nice long bath) and what you should do (study for your test!) is to jump in the tub with your notecards!

* When a family says "I have a headache" and they look at you like you have some sort of magical cure

* You clean stuff with alcohol wipes that you stole from the hospital

* You have to stop yourself from using abbreviations (re, r/t, c, s, etc) when talking to your non-nursing friends.

* You dream about the material you have been studying

* You see your classmates more than your family

* You read one of your nursing texts to induce sleep

* The people at Starbucks [or insert other coffee shop name here] know you by name.

* Everytime you walk, you make a rattling noise with all of the scissors, pens and hemostats in your pockets.

* You need to buy notecards in bulk

* You read your flashcards or notes while walking in between classes or while you're driving 

* Someone calls or IM's you and asks what you're doing, you say "studying"

* Someone asks what you're doing this weekend, you say "studying"

* You have no social life

* You feel that all of the other majors just "don't get it"

* You barely talk to anyone outside of nursing d/t lack of time

* You can get extra credit by wearing Depends to class

There are so many I agree with, but this one was fun!

And I won't let anyone tell me this is a cake walk. I have a few words for that which would get me kicked off here.... I have a 5 year old, 21 month old twins, I work, and I have a house to maintain. add on full time school and nothing is a cake walk

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My 9 yr old was sick and before I took her to after hours, I got mine out, started listening for anything, counting her respiration rate, asked her to rate her pain with numbers (she is very aware of the number scale thanks to mommy) and taking her temperature so I could have all the info for the nurses in the triage. Her favorite question is when was your last BM and what did it look like

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lol wearing the Depends was for my older adult rotation...if we wore them for a whole class period we got 5 points extra credit...anything for that, I guess! :lol2:

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jennifer7010 said:
  • When you become a regular at the library
  • When you finish a pot of coffee (at night) while studying for a test
  • When you no longer care about how you look, just as long as you have all your books, supplies, name tag, ect...
  • When you have a complete season of your favorite shows recorded on your tv that you have not gotten to watch yet
  • When your family and friends call to ask if a certain med is OK or what a certain symptom could be
  • When you start to assess people in the wal-mart check out line (in your head of course)
  • When you laugh at people who call studying for 2 hours "intense and long"
  • When you have to add your study group into your "circle of friends" on your phone plan because of the numerous text and phone calls

:specs:

I couldn't agree more...

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When you have that moment where you realize what your least favorite bodily fluid is ....

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...when your children tells you that you love your friends more than them because you are always studying with them...

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mbarcher said:
LOL! I think you can add one...

You know you're a student nurse when the first thing you notice on someone is how good their veins are!

That is so true!...we were playing cards with a couple of friends and told

This guy," man you would an easy stick"....LOL

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ha ha only one person did it in our class, and it wasn't the depends, it was the absorbent brief that resembles the same thing you use for an infant but are not allowed to call it that... yet every professor I have had in 4 semesters has called it

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