You Know You're a Nursing Student When...

• You find joy in the little things like eating and lying on a grassy knoll
• You can find anti-bac, gloves, medical tape, clamps, scissors, and a penlight in your backpack faster than you can find a pencil
• You cry in your car/shower, because it would be a waste of time to cry anywhere else ;-)
• You can point out every Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, Chick-fil-a, and everywhere else that sells coffee within a 20 mi radius of your school/hospital/clinical site
• You understand what’s going on in House/Grey’s/ER
• Your Christmas list includes things like drug cards, tide stick pens, books, stethoscopes, and new white scrubs
• You diagnose people as they walk by
• You percuss your abdomen in your living room/in class/on the grassy knoll
• You only get to pick out your outfit about 40% of the week, and 30% of the time you just don’t care…
• You slowly make an alternate language known only to the few… the proud... the nursing students...
• You live for call lights and medication passes b/c it makes the day go by faster
• You wash your hands before you go to the bathroom, after, and about 60 other times a day
• You've signed "K. F. SN" (student nurse) on a credit card receipt
• you gauge how busy your day was by how many times you were able to use the bathroom.
• You have to "pack" the night before for all the roles you need to play, outfits you need to wear, tools you need to have, and meals you need to eat the next day.
• You wake up every morning and ask that He would guide you to be comforting when you're exhausted, funny when you're disgusted, understanding when a member of your carpool oversleeps, awake when you need to be, and, of course, not to kill anyone ;-)