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Category Archives: School Days
The Student Nurse, The Experienced Nurse
A Student Nurse will spend an entire shift trying to re-orient the patient. An Experienced Nurse will chart that the patient is disoriented and restrain them. A Student Nurse spends 2 hours giving a patient a bath. An Experienced Nurse … Continue reading
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Slight Miscalculation
As a nursing student who had barely passed bedbaths, I was on my second clinical rotation and had not yet mastered the concept that a unit was different from a cc. In the frenzied state that only a nursing student … Continue reading
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I Personally Prefer Pringles…
I was training a new nurses aide once and one of our patients had had surgery earlier in the day. Their diet had just been changed from NPO to “sips and chips” (small sips of water and ice chips only) … Continue reading
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A Stitch in Time
After many weeks of being hospitalized, one gentleman was fairly tired of the numerous residents coming in every morning to see his incision. One morning on rounds, the chief resident asked if she could see his incision. The patient complied … Continue reading
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Tagged candy, gummy worms, Jokes, journal of nursing jocularity, nurse humor, nurse jokes, residents, student nurses
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Spell Checker Is NOT Your Friend
I was teaching a communications course about ten years ago. One of my students missed class and a test and had not notified me prior to the test. Prior notification was required in order not to receive a zero on … Continue reading
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The Fragrant Gourmet
My sister Barbara, a student nurse, was walking down the hall when she smelled a fould odor coming from the surgical unit’s kitchenette. Upon investigation, she found a classmate heating a bowel movement in a pan upon the stove. When … Continue reading
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Waiting for the Other To Drop
As a student, I was assigned to a patient: after a bed bath, it was time to get her out of bed. Try as I might, I could only find her right shoe. A fellow student who walked into the … Continue reading
You Know You’ve Been A Nursing Student Too Long When…
You identify the library as your primary place of residence on financial aid forms. You study for your annual physical exam. Your only exercise consists of running between classes. You can appreciate the literary vividness of “The gross appearance of … Continue reading