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!

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jennifer7010 said:
  • When you become a regular at the library we have our own table which no one will sit at on our day
  • When  you finish a pot of coffee (at night) while studying for a test only one?
  • When you no longer care about how you look, just as long as you have all your books, supplies, name tag, ect... except when you do the panty check because your instructor sent out an email regarding thongs and clinical practice
  • When  you have a complete season of your favorite shows recorded on your tv that you have not gotten to watch yet I had to give up on having favorite shows, nursing school = limited hours of work = no cable
  • When  your family and friends call to ask if a certain med is OK or what a certain symptom could bethey call??? mine just show up with the scripts and ask me what it says
  • 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" these would be business majors
  • 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 and they have their own ring tone so you can choose to answer it or not

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love all these lists! so glad the semester will be over in 3 exams

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You know you’re a nursing student when you go to the bookstore to purchase your books for the upcoming semester for a total cost of $48 and you get excited because of the low price.

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You know you've been a student nurse when;

-you can discuss anything while eating

-you're only friends are fellow students

-you've gone through a few Christmas' without sending out cards to relatives, but still receive them from everyone

-you send instructors funny e-mails

-you listen to recordings of lectures and conferences on your MP3 player to and from nursing school

-you have absolutely no clue what's going on in the real world

-you divide your days into school days and study days; there are no other days

-the only things you're counting down are; days to the next exam, and the minimum number of points you need to pass the final

-the only thing you care about is building up a cushion for the final

-you think your family's sole purpose is to keep you from studying

-you spend 1 hr a day driving so you can study away from home (remember you too can listen to taped lectures on MP3 player)

-you fall asleep listening to recorded lectures/conferences on said MP3 player

-you've decided to take stock in AAA batteries (for MP3 player)

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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!

I got a 100% on my pharm final. The 3 previous tests I got 2 C's and a D. I started off well 1 A and 2 nursing B's (like how I have to add in NURSING B LOL). Anyway, I let stuff at home get the best of me and grades drop. I go in for the final and stressing because I can only miss so many. The instructor tells me after the exam I got 100%. I seriously did think I was on punked LOL I was so flipped excited.

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- When your friends and family say they respect you being in school but have no idea how hard it really is for you

- You lay in bed the night before clinical, determined to fall asleep this time, and then toss and turn for three hours thinking about the Care Plan thats due next week, the exam coming up, the paper you have to start working on and the points you need on the next test to get your grade back on track again

- You now watch medical shows on TV and constantly say "hey I know what that means" when they start talking about edema, tachycardia and pulmonary embolisums

- When you are having dinner with your family and they ask you how your day at clinical was followed promptly by "please don't talk about that at the dinner table"

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When you are so stressed out from classes that you forget your own birthday!

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Specializes in DD, PD/Agency Peds, School Sites.

...you regularly find those unused exam gloves from your scrubs in the washer or dryer. I'm sure I'll miss that.;)

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Always_Learning said:
- When you find alcohol prep pads laying around in the most unusual places.

- When you are oblivious to all major world events/entertainment news (at least during the semester).

- When you look back at A&P fondly as "not so bad after all."

- When you're scared of everything. And I do mean everything.

- When you've never worked so hard and still feel so dumb. :lol2:

This one is so true!

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nico35 said:
when you have that moment where you realize what your least favorite bodily fluid is ....

sputum

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how about this, when your kids school nurse calls and of course you are studying and ask you to pick up your child because they dont "feel well". and you start drilling the nurse. Is she throwing up? Does she have diareah? Does she have a temp? Are there visible bumps? NO, then let her goback to class!!!!!:smokin:

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lol lol

when your watch your co-worker like a hawk b/c they have kidney dysfucntion AND has not taken her high blood pressure pills in over a month!

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When you wake up and you are being stuck in the back with pencils and have flash cards stuck to your face.

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