 Hey guys, I'm back with another video and I want to talk about how nursing has jacked me up and I Want this to be kind of a lighthearted fun video that helps us get away from all of this COVID stuff That's been going on and hopefully it makes you laugh and also helps you like kind of evaluate yourself on how nursing has jacked you up because I Was thinking about all the ways nursing has changed me and by jacking up. I don't mean like I Don't know like I don't mean it necessarily in a negative sense more in like a Like a funny sense. So hopefully you guys can like relate to some of these things and maybe you're like Yeah, that's definitely me. So I want to share some of the funny ways nursing has messed me up because when I was thinking about it There's a lot of different things and I'm like, wow, that's weird Ashley. So Let's get started. Okay This I know it's gonna be very weird for you guys But I cannot sleep with my heels on the bed Like if I'm laying my back, I cannot have my heels on the bed because I feel like I'm gonna get pressure ulcers And I know that sounds like so silly But like the feeling of it my heels on the bed I can like feel that pressure and so I have to like either sleep on my side or Like put a pillow underneath my like lower legs and calves to kind of float my heels And it's totally an ICU thing because I was not like that before being in the ICU But now that I am I'm like dang That is really weird the next way nursing has jacked me up is Sometimes especially after I've worked quite a bit When I get home and I like go to the bathroom I will like be like go into the bathroom and think oh I should chart my urine output or like Did I really just void more than like point five mils per keg per hour? And it's not like intentional that I think like this it's like I almost just in my head I'm like I got a chart this void and I'm like wait. Wait. This is stupid. This is myself and not a patient. Okay, I Hope you guys can relate to this one But the other weird thing that nursing's made me do is be very concerned about all of my body hair because I am like Worried that I'm gonna be you know driving and getting an accident And I'm gonna get brought into the hospital where I work and like what if I haven't shaved my armpits? Or what if I haven't shaved downstairs and everyone's gonna be like whoa We did not expect this about you actually So I feel like I always have to have like good hygiene good body hair because I God forbid I get admitted to the hospital that I Work out and then like I'm out of it and everyone's gonna be like whoa I know guys it probably doesn't happen But we're nurses like we know what happens to a certain extent another way the nursing's jacked me up is When I look at people in the eyes I look at their pupils and I notice like if one is slightly bigger than the other or like how they're reacting to light if They're constricting if they're not and I'm like really honed in on people's pupils when I'm talking to them And it's funny because actually my husband has one pupil that's slightly bigger than the other and my daughter does too And I didn't even notice this till I started working the ICU when I got like a lot more Skilled at my neuro assessments and stuff But like I feel like I always hone in on people's eyes And then the other thing that I do is when I'm out in public and I see people I feel like I just can totally tell what their medical diagnosis is without them even telling me Because you can look at people and be like oh, they've got like bigger belly Looks like they probably have liver disease or you like look at their lower extremities and you're like yep Probably a renal patient. They've got fluid overload The skin is different color or yeah, they definitely have diabetes And I feel like I can just see someone and be like yep They're probably on a beta blocker. They're probably going to dialysis They're probably taking their lactulose because their ammonia is too high another way the nursing's jack me up is Sense I feel like I am so in tune with different sense that Like I can tell when I smell something like it brings me back to an experience I had like if it smells like a GI bleed or Fowl urine or like the smell of when you cauterize skin or like a stinky wound All those smells if I get a whiff of any of that out in public somewhere I'm like whoa Something's going on that shouldn't be okay guys. Those are just a few ways that nursing has jacked me up There are probably so many more ways But I want to hear how nursing has messed you up in a funny sense to kind of like Get away from COVID. Let's lighten things up and just let me know in the comments below Make sure you're following me on my instagram ashleyatkinsrn If you like these types of videos, give it a thumbs up subscribe to my channel and I'll see you next time. Bye