Patient at risk for falls from wheelchair!!!

I can't even type the title of this post without laughing!
Some of you (other nurses) may find this funny, and others of you may never think this is funny--that's okay. On my worst nursing school days, I'll think back to today's lab class and laugh! Leslie, now that you're reading my blog--I'll look at you and say, "Patient at risk for falls from wheelchair!" and suddenly, everything will be better.

Today in lab we covered charting! Some members of the other lab group said that it was boring and they had trouble staying awake--but not our group! Oh my goodness, I've never laughed so hard! Our instructor seemed to be in a really good mood today too, so that helped encourage our good day. She gave us some charting practice exercises to do. We each got one sentence and had to chart it. (baby steps) My sentence was, "The patient's catheter is draining clear, yellow urine." Simple enough. I didn't chart it perfectly, but hey, this was really my first stab at this. I got the high points. In the end, we decided on "Catheter patent. Clear, yellow urine." No big deal.
We went around the room telling what we charted. Some people got their's dead on, others got tweaked a little. Then we got to one of our lab members whose sentence read, "You put a vest jacket and arm restraints on your patient." Her way of charting this sentence...wait for it..."Patient at risk for falls from wheelchair." It was all I could do not to laugh out loud. She totally missed the point of charting. I think she was trying to come up with a nursing diagnosis instead. Another lab member (you know who you are) says (outloud), "Where did the wheelchair come from?" I'm still laughing about it. I think because all of us were so shocked by her off the wall answer, our instructor didn't really say much. At least when my answers are wrong, they aren't THAT wrong (so far). I was proud of myself for not laughing directly at her. I was so shocked, I'm surprised I didn't say something.
**For all those doubters out there, I do know how to keep my mouth shut!**
I think we have the coolest lab group EVER! Work hard, play hard.

Tomorrow we have a math test. So I'm driving back up to school (on my day off) to take a test. I hate that I'll probably finish the test in less time than it took me to drive to school--one way. Oh well, no pain, no gain. I've learned my equivalents and how to write the problems their way. I'm sure I'll do pretty well on this one. They've been giving us math problems on each quiz and on the tests. Those are pretty good indicators of how we'll do, I think.

Still no test back, they way it'll come back Friday. I hate not knowing what I made.

Thanks for "listening" to my story that I thought was hilarious!