**RING** Cellphones in class...

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UHHHHHH! I have to vent! My ONE pet peeve during class is not the student who asks a zillion questions, the student who always knows someone with the condition that is being discussed, or the student that works somewhere that always performs interventions differently :rolleyes: ....it is the student who REPEATEDLY forgets to shut of their #### cell phone! And during a test is the worst!

Our policy is that cell phones must be shut OFF and if yours rings you must immediately leave the classroom, and receive an absence for the day. However, I have never once seen them implement this action. It just irks me! And now they have started a new policy that NO phones can be used in the building, even on breaks because of the excessive ringing in class...but still they do nothing when it happens.:madface:

Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.
You obviously don't have kids.

umm....let me guess, you DON'T have kids?

Man, i get tired of people (arrogantly) throwing that in my face (not saying that anyone actually did it here i'm just quoting what sparked my oncoming rant), that because i think a certain way about this subject, or other topics, that's it's because i don't have children. Not to mention the implication that if i HAD children, well whopeedee, i'd think completely different, right??

Wroooooong. Cellphone ringing during class is flat out rude and disrespectful other other people. And there are plenty of parents (since, because i'm childless, that makes me unqualified to answer anything about cellphone contact or anything else having to do with kids, accoding to some) who seem to do just fine in some of my classes with their phone ringer off or the phone in the car.

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Specializes in ICU, ER, HH, NICU, now FNP.

I have 5 kids - my cell phone is still set to silent - and that means even the vibe mode is turned off - during classes, lectures, conferences or meetings. I can check it every so often if I want.

Sorry but there just is *NO* excuse for the phone ringing or making any kind of disturbing noise. It's just bad manners. The rules really do apply to everyone, and having a child does not make anyone the exception. What a person is really saying to everyone else when they allow their phone to ring, or worse - answer it - in that situation is "I am more important than anyone else in the room, only my things matter, and to prove it, now they have to matter to you too - whether you like it or not"

Nope - no excuses.

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well i have one. People all over the world managed to raise their kids and keep tract of them before cellphones or pagers were in use. Cellphones have their place...and that place is not in your pocket turned on during any of the following: movies, in the middle of a doctors appointment, school, work (unless on break) or museums and theaters. What would you do if you were too poor to afford a cell phone? More than likely you would be just fine, and so would the kids.

I happen to be one of the forunate ones that can afford a phone. As far as the comment of "More than likely you would be just fine, and so would the kids." it is NOT about me....it's about my kids. I will not put anything before them and the odds of "more than likely...." isn't good enough. I'm sorry we don't agree. Your opinions are not my own, so I will end my part of the agrument here with, I will agree to disagree with you, respectfully. Good luck in your studies as well as your career.

Dawn

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I happen to be one of the forunate ones that can afford a phone. As far as the comment of "More than likely you would be just fine, and so would the kids." it is NOT about me....it's about my kids. I will not put anything before them and the odds of "more than likely...." isn't good enough. I'm sorry we don't agree. Your opinions are not my own, so I will end my part of the agrument here with, I will agree to disagree with you, respectfully. Good luck in your studies as well as your career.

Dawn

Having a cell phone doesn't ensure anything, you still we be stuck if your battery dies, you have no service in the area etc... that being said, the majority of the rings that we have to sit through in places where cellphones should not be are not emergency calls. We obviously think very differently on the subject of what is necessary and what is not. You opinions are not my own so I willl end my part of the argument here, with, I will agree to disagree with you respectfully. Good luck in your studies as well as your career.

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Specializes in ICU, ER, HH, NICU, now FNP.

I love professors who deduct big points for cell phones ringing or buzzing in class :)

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if i HAD children, well whopeedee, i'd think completely different, right??

Right. You would. Saying you KNOW what you would think if you were a parent when you are not is like saying you KNOW what you would think if you're an African-American and you're not, or a man and you're not, or an unemployed homeless drug addict, if you're not.

I think we are running two different threads here. I agree cell phones should not ring in the classroom. I also note that the instructor who posted here spelled it out as "your child needing medical attention" constituted an emergency. If the only time the cell phones rang in the classroom were when children needed medical attention, do you think we would have a post on it?

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your child's broken arm was not an emergency, and s/he could even have waited for a few hours in the school nurse's office until you could be reached.

The school would not allow your child to wait in the nurse's office for a few hours until you could be reached. They would call an ambulance if you couldn't be reached.

And if the school DID call you and you told them it's not an emergency and s/he can wait in the nurse's office for a few hours...

then they would call DCFS.:nono:

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I suppose I should preface this with the fact that I do not appreciate cell phone users who think they have a right to simply gab because they are "special" but....

All this talk about whether someones child having a medical emergency is truly a cell phone emergency has kinda got me in a tissy ( OMG I am honest!). Is a broken arm an emergency? Is an asthma attack an emergency? Is a HoHo an emergency? Is an MVA an emergency?

Ask this question..... If you were working in an ER and a broken arm of a child came in... would that be an emergency? How about an asthma attack? a Hoho? an MVA?

So as a mother that is studying to be a nurse which of these "emergencies" is she "Allowed" to be concerned about?...... As a nurse she should be concerned about and attend to certain emergencies but as a mother she should say " Oh who cares? My schooling is more important than "THAT" emergency in my own family." What precedent does that set? How can one care for the community if they do not first take care of their own family?

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Specializes in Corrections, neurology, dialysis.

I have kids and I still think people should keep their cell phones off during class.

For people who don't have kids, they should not be subjected to the inconvenience and disturbance of those who do. People make choices to have kids or not. People who choose not to have children should not have their learning experience disrupted by people who chose to have them. I get irritated when parents think their needs and choices are more important than the needs and choices of others. Who made up this rule?

When my kids were small and I needed alone time I had a rule. If I was in a room alone or with someone who wanted some quality time with me, the rule was do not knock on this door unless someone is bleeding or the house is on fire. It teaches kids early on to prioritize their needs and desires and figure out how to deal with situations on their own. It helped them to learn independence early on and not to rely on me for everything that happens in their lives.

The rule could be applied to phone calls too. A child with a fever, vomiting, fight with a sibling can wait until you are between classes or even until you get home. It is my opinion that kids need to learn early on that the world does not revolve around them, and they don't need someone running to their rescue for everything that happens in their lives. Kids who grow up with parents who jump every time they need something, grow up to be adults who expect people around them to jump whenever they want them to.

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Specializes in Oncology/Haemetology/HIV.
You obviously don't have kids.

That'a pretty a baseless assumption. Specially when many of us that have rebutted your argument have written into the post that we HAVE raised children.

What is the old phrase about assuming and what it makes out of you?

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Specializes in Infusion, Med/Surg/Tele, Outpatient.

Ok. I have a phone with an outside button that you hold down to set to 'ring' 'vibrate' or 'silent'. I personally feel that disrupting class for most any reason is rude and wastes time/money. I try to keep my phone to silent, so one day when it was in my pocket, and the button must have been pushed in the car or whatever, when it went off vibrating, I was so startled I jumped up like I had been bit by a snake or something. It was really funny. My prof even laughed. Now it stays in my purse on 'silent' but my downloaded ringer is the theme from braveheart, so most people don't even hear it when it is set to 'ring' and not on the loudest setting. And you can buy phones that have an outside display that show if the call is worth answering.

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Specializes in Looking for a career in NICU.
The school would not allow your child to wait in the nurse's office for a few hours until you could be reached. They would call an ambulance if you couldn't be reached.

And if the school DID call you and you told them it's not an emergency and s/he can wait in the nurse's office for a few hours...

then they would call DCFS.:nono:

So are you saying if a kid had a low-grade fever of 99 or so, they would call an ambulance and run up $250 in bills (that the insurance won't pay for) if you couldn't be reached and then call Social Services when you told them that little Susie or Johnny would be just fine?

If either one of those situations happened even once, little Susie or Johnny would be in a new school by Monday.

That gives an entire new meaning to over-reacting..the daycare where my child is didn't even have such a policy for newborns...and it is a TOP center.

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