My first day at my current job, a very sweet-looking 94 year-old lady was sitting in the hallway, and as I walked by she said that I reminded her of her daughter. I said, "Oh, really?" She said "Oh, yes dear. That b**** stole my money and sent me into this place to die. Then she ran off with some deadbeat who left her, and she expects ME to help her with money for those bratty little kids of hers... You do remind me of her, but that's okay dear. I'm sure you're a fine young lady." I was so shocked, I was speechless. I didn't know what to say, so I just walked away, the whole time wondering what I had gotten myself into...

This story is about my groups first day in the Med-Surg unit while in school. We were nervous and had no idea what to expect. Our clinical instructor came over and assigned all of us to patients. My friend received a patient that needed blood. Our instructor told the student that she was going to have to give it to her. All of a sudden my friend was pale and her eyes were watery. She looked at our instructor and said she didn't know that students had to do things like that. She thought she was going to have to give her own blood to the patient. It was a good lunch conversation piece later that day.

It was our first exposure in the OR and I was excited because I got the coolest case of the day - everyone is so nervous because finally from years of sitting in the classroom and learning all the body parts, we finally can see these organs live...the case was actually craniotomy and the operation starts...the doctor incise and I give the instruments and the drill sounded and then another big sound came, with instruments and basins falling on the floor and when everybody looked at where the sound came from - we found out that my classmate who is so macho and said to be the biggest in our class collapsed on the floor. When he finally woke up, we asked him and he said that he was so frightened when saw the blood and with the sound of the drill....poor him but he is now in texas working in ICU.