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 Dialysis.
pfefferminze said:
Your room is so filled with rolls of tape, left-over alcohol swabs, piles of scrubs and books, etc. that it could easily be featured on an episode of Hoarders (A&E)...

Or when you find said supplies strewn about your car!

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Specializes in Dialysis.

...when you're at the hospital for your husband's procedure, and during the admission paperwork when the RN asks him about his ambulation- and he says "what?" you and the nurse say "walking" at the same time. Keep in mind, I had my last clinical in ambulatory surgery... :D

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...when you wake yourself up from sleeping talking about meds. I woke myself talking about Vistaril and how it was an anti-histamine lol

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Specializes in Critical Care.
mia13 said:
- 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! I ran out of room on my tiny bookshelf and I haven't even gotten my ns textbooks yet LOL

- 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. I always wonder how some girls look so nice and pretty on test day - you can always tell its test day for me with my lack of makeup and boring outfit LOL.

- 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... for me its half sized index cards - seriously before I could find them near my new college, my mom would send them in care packages LOL. sometimes I think I eat the things for dinner, the way I use up the packs

I could go on for a while. and I'm a pre-nursing student this year. I'm starting ns in sept.:D

you and me both LOL. I'm just like you - a pre-nursing student starting ns in sept, and I already feel like a seasoned vet in a way.

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Maria L, SN said:
You and me both LOL. I'm just like you - a pre-nursing student starting NS in Sept, and I already feel like a seasoned vet in a way.

I know, it's weird isn't it? I know I'm not a nurse, but I get so offended when I hear "just a nurse", "nursing school can't be that hard, you're not gonna study to be a MD" etc, etc... Even though I'm not in NS yet, the pre-reqs are not easy, I can just imagine what NS is going to be like...

And my mom already started calling me nurse ? LOL, I'm not, yet, but it's flattering ? :p

Are in Canada by the way?

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Specializes in Geriatrics/Retirement Residence.
StudentNurse2011 said:
Were you watching in my window this weekend? LOL

:lol2: no, that's my life. :lol2:

my B-day is coming in a month and my family is asking what I want, and it's it's not what they wanna give me... I'm turning 25 ? they wanna give me jewlery or something fancy, I quatred century old after all, they wanna give me stuff I'll have forever, and I'm like I need there books, and these, and a new bookshelf, and a gift card the the office supply store, and a scrubs store, and... ugh, they dodn't get it. :lol2:

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- You have a never ending supply of black pens.

- You are always broke. Always.

- When your idea of fun is going to Wal-Mart and buying flash cards in every color.

- When you first meet someone and tell them you're in nursing school, they tell you their entire medical history and what medications they are taking, and if I believe the medications are effective. (True story! haha.)

-You travel with a BP cuff and stethoscope in your car because people are always asking you to take their blood pressure.

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Specializes in Geriatrics/Retirement Residence.
everlasting said:
- you have a never ending supply of black pens.

- you are always broke. always.

- when your idea of fun is going to wal-mart and buying flash cards in every color.

- when you first meet someone and tell them you're in nursing school, they tell you their entire medical history and what medications they are taking, and if I believe the medications are effective. (true story! haha.)

-you travel with a bp cuff and stethoscope in your car because people are always asking you to take their blood pressure.

:lol2::yeah::lol2::yeah::lol2::yeah:

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mia13 said:
my B-day is coming in a month and my family is asking what I want, and it's it's not what they wanna give me... I'm turning 25 ? they wanna give me jewlery or something fancy, I quatred century old after all, they wanna give me stuff I'll have forever, and I'm like I need there books, and these, and a new bookshelf, and a gift card the the office supply store, and a scrubs store, and... ugh, they dodn't get it. :lol2:

Happy early Birthday! I get a lot of my books from half.com Ask them for a gift certificate from there and their gift will go a lot farther! LOL! Seriously, I do get most of my books there - a lot cheaper than at the bookstore. Yes, they're used, but I haven't had any problems yet. I buy the best condition that I can afford, and I try to make sure all the CDs come with it that are supposed to be there. I found a pathophys book at B&N over the weekend that I wanted so bad I almost drooled- so that's my next purchase. :D For my birthday, I want a rolling bookbag so I can carry those monstrous books to class.

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Specializes in Geriatrics/Retirement Residence.
StudentNurse2011 said:
Happy early Birthday! I get a lot of my books from half.com Ask them for a gift certificate from there and their gift will go a lot farther! LOL! Seriously, I do get most of my books there - a lot cheaper than at the bookstore. Yes, they're used, but I haven't had any problems yet. I buy the best condition that I can afford, and I try to make sure all the CDs come with it that are supposed to be there. I found a pathophys book at B&N over the weekend that I wanted so bad I almost drooled- so that's my next purchase. :D For my birthday, I want a rolling bookbag so I can carry those monstrous books to class.

Thanks :D

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Specializes in Critical Care.
mia13 said:
I know, it's weird isn't it? I know I'm not a nurse, but I get so offended when I hear "just a nurse", "nursing school can't be that hard, you're not gonna study to be a MD" etc, etc... Even though I'm not in NS yet, the pre-reqs are not easy, I can just imagine what NS is going to be like...

And my mom already started calling me nurse ? LOL, I'm not, yet, but it's flattering ? :p

Are in Canada by the way?

My Mom talks about my "great new career" and I'm like, "I'm not there yet dear LOL"

I'm in the U.S. - originally from Washington state, but I'm going to school in Michigan. Good luck to us both in NS! ?

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Specializes in NICU.

Might as well be in Canada, where we are, Maria L. :p

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