Life of a Nursing Student: Test, Test, Test...

I know, I know, it's been awhile since I have made a blog post. But I have been trying so hard to make time for a social life this semester that I've been too busy playing instead of homework and blogging.

Not a lot is different with school, except I finished my clinicals!!!! This seemed like a very big deal this semester because I really really really did not like my psych clinical. But they are over and I now have to concentrate on a lot of testing coming up. And not just testing, but a very important test, the HESI. It's a comprehensive test that makes sure that I have learned over the last year. So in a matter of 4 weeks I have a peds and psych test, the HESI, and then finals for peds and psych. Guess I better get my butt in gear and start studying instead of waiting until the day or two before the test to study. Oppsie.

I have been asked to keep adding to the "You Know You're a Nursing Student When..." list (thank you Cori) so I will continue on that list for now and see what we come up with.

You know you're a nursing student when you are at the psych clinical site and you get locked in the corridors and are unable to get out and they talk about calling the fire department to get you out of the corridor. (hahaha, Flint and Julia, I will forever and always laugh about this one!)
You know you're a nursing student when you are in lecture and your instructor tells you that you should take time ever morning to appreciate your morning bowel movement
You know you're a nursing student when you are studying for psych and you are relating every mental illness to someone that you know (or even worse, yourself)
You know you're a nursing student when you are so tired because you were up all night studying that when you are in a chart room, supposedly studying charts on the patients in the center, you take a nap instead.
You know you're a nursing student when your realize that you need an IV drip of coffee just to make it through lecture
You know you're a nursing student when you finish your most hated psych clinicals and you skip down the hall singing zip-a-dee-do-dah and all your classmates are laughing at you but feel the exact same way!
You know you're a nursing student when you are stuck watching boring ass videos about how to handle a violent situation and you draw a sign that says "SHOOT ME" and hold it up to your group members with your instructor sitting right next to you looking at you just shaking his head, and even worse, you mean it!
You know you're a nursing student when the night after a final is the best night in the world because it means you have at least 16 weeks before you have to stress about another final
You know you're a nursing student when you're washing your hands in the bathroom and you count to see if the person next to you washes for 15 seconds, and when they don't you get seriously grossed out and want to say something to them
You know you're a nursing student when you realize that IV starting is coming up and you are working up your friends, family, and boy/girlfriends trying to prepare them for you 'practicing' on them. (I have yet to find a friend or family member that will allow me to except for my wonderful friends at the hospital, because they remember what it was like)
You know you're a nursing student when you are asked by someone who picks up your book bag and ask you if you're carrying cement in there
You know you're a nursing student if you can talk about the anus and genitals and it's not sexual what-so-ever
You know you're a nursing student when you know all about your friends body systems, health problems, and have no shame grabbing their body in any way because you have already assessed them and seen them without their clothes on (ok, at least with the female students, I don't think I'm ready to grab Josh, Papa, Darren, or Jarred... sorry guys...)
You know you're a nursing student when you are not allowed to talk about your clinical day because your family and non-nursing school friends are in complete horror and grossed out (and secretly you find it hilarious!)
You know you're a nursing student when you have a beer ready and waiting for you for when you get off of your horribly long day at clinical, then you get home, drink that beer, and all you can think about is the meds that would interact with that beer and what it can potentially do to your liver, then the whole wonderfulness of the beer is diminished... well, almost
You know you're a nursing student when you have a medical bag full of supplies and medications "just in case", then someone ask for something and you don't have it you hold your head in shame that you are not prepared (or is this just me?)
You know you're a nursing student when you are sitting in lecture and other classmates keep asking the most out of this world questions and you have to seriously wonder to yourself if you have been in class with the same people for over a year now, because the questions they ask are way too silly for someone who has been in nursing school for that long! And you have no shame in laughing hysterically out loud at them... ya... um... not like I would do that or anything...

Well.... think that will be it for me for now. As far as the first reason on the list today that was by far my most favorite moment in psych clinical! I received a phone call from Papa Flizzle (aka Flint) and he's begging me to get over to the Girls A area so I could help him and Julia, because they were trapped. I laughed so hard when I got there, and couldn't get the door open! It was a priceless moment. I will upload the video if I am able to on here.

There are only 40 days left of the semester and maybe 270ish left for nursing school all together (thank you Jarred for the count down), and I am so happy because the end is getting closer and closer. I will miss some of my classmates so horribly though. I have gotten so used to seeing these people on almost a daily basis, it will be sad to lose that daily interaction.

Once again, as always, I am so thankful for the wonderful friends and family I have surrounding me and encouraging me at every step. Each of you help me in a different way, beyond what you would ever realize. I am forever indebted to you for keeping me going! I love you guys, and thanks for stopping by once again to read my blog. I am glad that so many of you enjoy it!