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 the botryoides subclass of rhabdomyosarcoma is often a bizarre polypoid, glistening, edematous ‘cluster of grapes’ that is a mass of stroma and dilated blood vessels.”
• You pay $70 for a textbook without complaining.
• You suspect your instructors attended the Marquis de Sade School of Nursing Care Plan Writing.
• At dinnertime, you inform your family they’re NPO until morning.
• You have sacral decubiti from sitting in lectures.
• Your fingerprints are fading from handwashing.
• When your clinical begins at 7 am, you look forward to ‘sleeping in’.
• You believe your uniform is flattering to your figure.
• Your best mouth-to-mouth contact in months involves Rescue Annie.
• You get the feeling you should be doing something, anything, other than what you are doing the first few days of summer vacation.
• You inadvertently write “SN” after your check signature.
• You wish Florence Nightengale had just stayed in the Crimea!
• You look forward to taking the NCLEX.

By Meleen R Michalek, RN, BSN: if you are Meleen, drop us a line at <a href=”mailto:Cindy@journalofnursingjocularity.com”>