What I remember from nursing school:

 1.How much I hated looking like a walking Q-tip (students wore all white uniforms)

 2.My very first stethoscope – boy it was horribly heavy

 3.The concept of the stethoscope being put in your ears properly – I didn’t get that at first. LOL

 4.Learning to give my first bed bath (people get baths in bed? Really?)

 5.Learning to give my first subcutaneous injection to an orange (that poor orange)

 6.Starting my very first IV on a patient as she sat up at the bedside and cried in horror (true story)

 7.Learning that the arm above the toilets only worked when you lowered them down (yes – I ducked the first time I used it)

 8.Lowering the patient’s bed is a good thing (I left it sky high once – and forgot)

 9.Hanging my first IV fluids and IV antibiotic (I thought it was the coolest thing in the world)

 10.EKG’s scared the bejesus outta me at first (PQRST? What the heck does the alphabet have to do with those lines?)

 11.Taking a blood pressure in front of my instructors ( I dropped the cuff twice – my palms were sweaty)

 12.My first subcutaneous injection given to a ‘real’ patient (I was shaking)

 13.My obnoxiously large clipboard that carried everything to clinicals (it had pockets, a calculator, ruler, calculations, etc)

 14.Looking up all those darn drugs for clinicals each day (I lost a lot of sleep)

 15.Care plans became the devil (I lost even more sleep)

 16.Time management took on a whole new meaning (I really wanted someone to invent the 30 + hour day – 24 just wasn’t enough)

 

  What do you remember from nursing school?