Getting Motivated...

A group of us from school went out drinking last week. It was a much needed break!

It has been awhile since I have done a post about nursing school. So I was sitting here procrastinating doing homework (the norm now days) and filling my time with mindless, pointless things to do and figured it was time for a new blog post.

So a little update on the semester, I am still recovering from last semester and am finding it difficult to motivate myself with school right now. I know this seems to be the general feeling with everyone in my cohort... we keep thinking the get busy studying mindset will kick in, but we are a month into the semester with two test down, and have yet to get the right mindset. What gets me is if the last semester kicked our asses so bad what the hell will last semester be like? Oh holy hell... lets not even think about it, it exhaust me to even think about it!

Time to continue on our fun list. I don't know what my deal is with the list on this blog... but it works. Let's continue:

You know you're a nursing student when your nursing school friends know more about what's going on in your life than your own family because they see you more than anyone else in your life.

You know you're a nursing student when you look at Maslow's Hierarchy of life and try to see where you fit on it and realize that you are missing many aspects of the hierarchy because nursing school is sucking your will to live.

You know you're a nursing student when non nursing people won't watch tv with you anymore because you correct all of the medical mistakes made throughout the whole show. Don't even get me going on the show House!!!!!

You know you're a nursing student when someone you know is sick and you spend a half hour asking them about symptoms and the illness to try to diagnosis them and come up with a NANDA approved nursing diagnosis.

You know you're a nursing student when you are looking at everyone's coloring and if you see someone dusky colored you want to run up and check their O2 saturations to make sure that they are perfusing efficiently.

You know you're a nursing student when you find yourself trying to "actively listen" because it is a healing connection (oh lord...)

You know you're a nursing student when you are in line at the pharmacy and you eavesdrop on what prescriptions the people in front of you are getting so you can figure out what's wrong with them and think about the side effects they will suffer from taking those meds.

You know you're a nursing student when you let your friends practice IV's on you just because.

You know you're a nursing student when you can spot a heart murmur or lung crackles!

You know you're a nursing student when you are just excited to not be doing free slave labor anymore and look forward to the day you get paid to be in the hospital!

Well I think 10 will do it for me today. Though I am dragging ass on getting motivated for this semester it has gone really well. I am done with my pediatrics clinical and have two more psych clinicals left... gag. That one has been really trying and difficult for me. We are working with young kids who are sex offenders. Not exactly what I would want to be doing with my time, but I have honestly learned a lot (nursing school and non nursing school information). I will be THRILLED though when these clinical days are over! Soon!!! WAHOOOOOOOO! 10 months left of school and counting! Love you guys.

Nursing students gone wild!