The Most Wonderful Part of My Day,,,

Here it is 11:30 at night and I have class at 8 am and I am working on an assignment due tomorrow at 8. I was thinking that this could be added to my "you know you're a nursing student when..." list. So let's add more, cuz it sounded like some fun (and in all honesty I am still procrastinating finishing that homework).

• You know you're a nursing student when you're up at 11:30 at night to finish up an assessment that is due in less than eight hours...
  
• You know you're a nursing student when you're excited about working with the most disgusting, sad, rare disease/patient
• You know you're a nursing student when you are on the trax train going to clinical with your nursing group and you have to point out cool things to your group that you noticed while assessing the guy sitting across from you
• You know you're a nursing student when you are hoping that your patient has a high blood sugar so that you can give a insulin shot
• You know you're a nursing student when you count how long the person next to you washes their hands and have to fight everything inside of you not to scream about germs when they don't even wash their hands
• You know you're a nursing student when you carry hand sanitizer everywhere with you and you give yourself a bath in it after clinical
• You know you're a nursing student when you are jealous that your classmates got to work with a more critical patient than you did
• You know you're a nursing student when you find out what's going on with your friends outside of school via facebook...
  
• You know you're a nursing student when your classmates know you better than your own family does
• You know you're a nursing student when you can fart in front of your classmates and they are not bothered by it and are happy that your bowels are moving
• You know you're a nursing student when all you dream about is med conversions and showing up late for a test
• You know you're a nursing student when your friends are practicing their IV start skills and you allow them to poke you and leave "track" marks down your arms because you know you'll get even with them when it's your turn to practice
  
• You know you're a nursing student when you do your laundry and find pens, alcohol swabs, and multiple papers in your pockets (and they were left there because honestly you were too tired to remember that you didn't check the pockets)
• You know you're a nursing student when you are excited to hear a heart murmur or lung crackles!
  
• You know you're a nursing student when every situation you're in you can relate it to school and what you just finished studying
• You know you're a nursing student when you carry around a backpack full of all of your books EVERYWHERE you go just in case you have five minutes to read and study...
• You know you're a nursing student when you are downtown with your clinical group wearing your bright blue scrubs and some drunk guy across the street starts singing the Smurfs tune to you
  

Ok, we'll call it good for now. I sat down today and tried to study for peds. Let me tell you what not to do so my fellow classmates can learn from me. Do not spend 2 hours doing online lectures that get you no where with and typing up notes to follow the pointless yacking only to find out that you already have notes that correlate with the crap you are seeing slides of, and then move to reading the book (and falling asleep a half hour into it for 2 wonderful hours) and read 2 chapters (which equals about 80 some odd pages) only to find out that all of it was pointless and the teacher gives you a study guide that gives you all of the info you need. So yes, pretty much it was a wasted day... except for that nap. It was wonderful!