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!

Specializes in Peds.
locolorenzo22 said:
When everyone calls you for medication and symptom questions....even before you have your license.

Man yessss! And now that I have my license and am starting as a new grad nurse on Monday, the amount of questions have increased!! UGHHHHH!! LOL I feel so stupid because I can't answer every question on my own. They taught us alot in school LOL

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Specializes in Peds.

....when you bring your books or notes to your Valentine's Day date because of your big med-surg test the next day. Luckily, my boyfriend at the time was very understanding LMAO

....when ppl ask you want you want for christmas, and your list ONLY consists of texts, NCLEX books, or maybe a Littman so you won't have to wait til your first check (like me) to get one when u graduate and get ur first job lmao

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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!

Michael

Even on television programs!!LOL!

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When you watch TV shows and you say, "no way! they wouldn't do that!"

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OK, I have to revive this thread. sorry. LOL

When a commercial comes on TV for whatever drug du jour, and you automatically start reeling off classification, method of action, drug interactions, side/adverse effects, and nursing implications. I don't understand why, but the family gets royally ticked at this. :D

I totally do a mental assessment on everybody I see, and I create mental care plans on day to day life situations. When you ask your family to let you practice assessments on them - and jokingly ask your family and close circle of friends to let you practice injections on them. One actually agreed - shocked me! LOL! (No, I didn't take him up on the offer lol)

When you realize that the majority of the friends programmed into your cell phone are professors and classmates.

Last but definitely not least - when you abandon your favorite websites and computer games for allnurses.com. Then realize you've been on the message board too long and have to tear yourself away to finish your care plan.

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Specializes in NICU.

When you threaten to practice catheterization on your misbehaving boyfriend.

When your friends ask you to go with them to doctors appointments.

When your friends stop complaining about how busy they are (art or english majors, primarily)

~To be fair, I would NOT want to be an art or english major. The pressure of constant

projects and essays while still being a creative genius would probably kill me

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Specializes in neuro ICU, ICU stepdown.

When you ask your boyfriend "What should the blood pressure be in my car's tires?" The sad thing is that he casually answered and didn't even notice!

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When you pay your kid to "play patient." If this bribe doesn't work, you use pillows as your pretend patient (and you talk to them).

When you look like you have inguinal/abdominal hernias because you have so much junk in your scrub pockets.

When you say, "I'm hungry" while you are looking at a disgusting wound or bag of poo.

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Specializes in Critical Care.
shrimpchips said:
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

Uh oh I already fit the bill with alot of these LOL, looks like I'm in for it with nursing school! ?

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...when you start observing everyone's gait, then start using the word 'gait':lol2:

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Specializes in Geriatrics/Retirement Residence.

-When you don't read books that don't have nursing written on them, or something to do with the human body or medicine.

-When you have books everywhere, and no more space on your book shelf. I need another bookshelf!

-When all you want to get for presents form your family is that book, or the other one, or just a gift card to the book store so they don't have to search for the book themselves...

-When you have a pair of earplugs in every room, as well as your school bag.

-When you don't care what you look like as long as you've got the homework done, and you're ready for the test.

-When you have a pen on you at all times.

-When you know the schedule of the thee nearest public libraries as well as the one at your school by heart.

-When you use eye drops often... because you never get enough sleep, and your eyes are dry and red. :yawn:

-When you totally don't care about anything that's going abound in the world (news, celeb, politics)

-When you dream of A&P :)

-When you you have to look in your planner every time someone asks you if you're available... and most of the time the answer in no. :uhoh3:

-When you don't really care what you wear as long as you're on time for class and drink coffee before.

-When you always have several snacks in your bag, because you don't know when you'll make it home from the library...

-when you have highlighter everywhere, and there's never enough because you keep running out of them, and paper, and pens,ugh...

I could go on for a while. And I'm a pre-nursing student this year. I'm starting NS in Sept.:D

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mia13 said:

-When all you want to get for presents form your family is that book, or the other one, or just a gift card to the book store so they don't have to search for the book themselves...

-When you have a pair of earplugs in every room, as well as your school bag.

-When you totally don't care about anything that's going abound in the world (news, celeb, politics)

Were you watching in my window this weekend? LOL

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