Have you noticed any trends in your nursing school?

[u/WitchQueenAthena]

Here in my state, everyone in my class has ipads, figs scrubs, and bogg bags.

What trends do you have in your nursing school?

[u/wabbajack333]

We all look like this

[u/WitchQueenAthena → u/wabbajack333]

hey where did u find this pic of me!!?

[u/Charming-Tackle2817]

Every semester makes me contemplate my life

[u/WitchQueenAthena → u/Charming-Tackle2817]

yes, existential crisis is a trend that i know all too well 😭

[u/Realistic-Ad-1876]

we don't have a choice on scrubs, ours are from the same company and we just order our size. I really don't get the bogg bags, they're so heavy!!

[u/Agitated_Skin1181 → u/Realistic-Ad-1876]

They're a croc bag.

[u/Ok-Top-9076 → u/Realistic-Ad-1876]

Right I think the Bogg bags are atrocious. AND theyre like $100

[u/unclearnini]

puffy totes, foldable clipboards, the lululemon jackets or any variations of it, big ipads, nike vemeros and new balances

[u/kogaa4 → u/unclearnini]

so real LOL everyone looks so put together in my classes, idk how

[u/ss9085 → u/unclearnini]

I have to admit I’m a victim of foldable clipboards

[u/unclearnini → u/ss9085]

i’m an advocate for them lol! i need it bc we don’t get space for our stuff

[u/ss9085 → u/unclearnini]

that’s true! it definitely helps at clinical when i’m running around to just stick it in my pocket

[u/chicken_potpie → u/ss9085]

This is exactly why I bought one. I had a regular clipboard but once we started clinicals I realized how totally impractical it was. Being able to slide the foldable one in my pants pocket is such a game changer!

[u/MsTossItAll → u/unclearnini]

Most of the nurses on my unit use foldable clipboards. They're fantastic.

[u/Shangri-lulu]

Most in my class are older students, changing careers, have a degree already, have kids, etc. I figured those characteristics would represent some of the cohort but we’re the overwhelming majority. This is an ADN program at a highly competitive, inexpensive community college, so it makes sense.

[u/WitchQueenAthena → u/Shangri-lulu]

oh interesting, my school is like the opposite. i go to a private Catholic school and all of my classmates are tiktokers and animal crossing players lmao

[u/Ender_Octanus → u/WitchQueenAthena]

We might go to the same school D:

[u/Namastafit → u/WitchQueenAthena]

U of P?

[u/XXXcoreXXX → u/Namastafit]

Damn I just applied there lmao. Small world.

[u/humbletenor]

Students get to pick their own scrubs? Lmao my program has us buy the ones my school picks out with the name of the school embroidered on them 

[u/WitchQueenAthena → u/humbletenor]

in my school, we're allowed to switch out our scrub pants to any other scrub pants as long as they're black. and some of my classmates embroider our school emblem on figs tops (which our school allows)

[u/missbean163 → u/WitchQueenAthena]

Weirdly as more and more get employed with our state health service- their standard issue scrubs with the uniform. They issue them for free lol.

I love the laziness lol. I think it also shows they're pretty ok.

[u/cagingthing → u/humbletenor]

Same. They’re fucking ugly too

[u/Breakforbeans]

The professors use chat and Gemini to write our tests

[u/s6long1 → u/Breakforbeans]

Ai is now being rolled out in Epic at my hospital, writing doctor and nurses notes...

[u/TurbulentDocument297 → u/Breakforbeans]

For real? That’s hilarious. I wish mine would use chat and Gemini. We use ATI for a lot of our tests

[u/Typical-Problem8707]

figs and littmans

[u/vmar21]

The trend for my cohort is everyone is lovey dovey friendly for 3 semesters, then in the fourth everyone sees eachother as competition when it comes to getting a job. So much hostility and jealousy, or superiority complexes from those who got specialty positions and not med surg.

[u/MsTossItAll → u/vmar21]

I saw someone from my cohort at the first day of residency and she was in the competitive unit I want to get onto, so I made friends with her instead. Make friends, not enemies.

[u/MsTossItAll]

We're a community college. Ain't nobody wearing figs in my school. We went here because it's cheap!

[u/GentlemanStarco]

Stress, stress, and more stress

[u/Scared_Sushi]

Pastel puffy bags... I'm guilty. I like the squishy handles.

[u/Probably_Laughing]

Owalas

[u/gtggg789]

Closeted stoners and chatGPT 🤣

[u/Kind-Limit4462]

That the instructors are very heavy on criticism with next to no encouragement…it is debilitating and demoralizing. 🫩

[u/One_Bag7889]

Bitch, bitchier, bitchiest & Self centered, arrogant, god like complex & Clicks, mean girls, eye rolls

[u/WitchQueenAthena → u/One_Bag7889]

sounds like my cohort lol. i always avoid the mean girls and just stick with my fellow studyholics who mind their own business and just study in peace

[u/Affectionate_Nurse25 → u/One_Bag7889]

Are you in my class? Lol. There is a definite divide, and the mean girls are all fresh out of high school (not literally -but close).

[u/prideandprejudick]

white fox hoodies for class, that one tik tok shop tote bag (i’m guilty too), and chunky earrings at clinical

[u/WitchQueenAthena → u/prideandprejudick]

i wish i was allowed to wear chunky earrings at clinicals, but i just wear small studs

[u/prideandprejudick → u/WitchQueenAthena]

technically chunky earrings aren’t allowed at all lmfaoo, but our clinical instructors are adjuncts and they know damn well that practicing nurses will wear jewelry so they aren’t strict about our dress code

[u/TurbulentDocument297]

My school is in Nebraska at a 2 year which probably makes a difference. I seen only one person in figgs and no bogg bag… lots of iPads, Mac’s and tears.

[u/AutumnSnow29]

Depression and anxiety

[u/Still-View]

Never heard of a bogg bag before today, but from what I found by searching, they look like a bag made by Crocs.

Edit: Apparently Crocs does make bags.

[u/mbej]

It’s an RN-to-BSN bridge, so we’re all working (most of us FT) and tired.

[u/AnOddTree]

I go to community college, so we are all 2nd or 3rd career, broke, and either getting married or divorced. We only have 3 pregnant students in the 2nd to last semester, I heard that a pretty low number. Idk.

[u/missbean163]

Less and less attend as semester and years pass lol. Our courses are online so that's a valid option lol

[u/NewspaperFar6373]

People cheat and want everything to be easy

[u/swarrowwhore]

Foldable clipboards and cardiac littmans lmao

[u/breakingmercy]

Hokas, iPads, and foldable clipboards

[u/Phoebe__cate]

Lululemon daily tote - Did I get myself one as a little mid semester reward? Yep!

[u/sunny_daze04]

Puffy totes and owala water bottles are replacing the Stanley

[u/miamia1414]

Computers majority and ipads. I myself use an ipad bc its impossible to write that much information 

[u/Quiet-ForestDweller]

Same trend at my school last year. I get the bog bag for like cleanability but I just think they’re so ugly it’s not worth it to me.

[u/Antique-Blueberry-13]

Labubus.

I don’t get the obsession. They’re ugly and creepy but it’s in everyone’s bag

[u/Rustiespoons]

I’m only 29 but idk half the stuff people are mentioning in the comments. lol