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I wish my instructors would do that, especially with one girl in class. She's a nice girl, and I like some questions that she asks. Other questions, however, tend to go off track from lecture.

rita21

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You are so lucky!!! I was so TIRED of those people when I was in school. and i swear many of them just made up stories because they were desperate to relate. I swear there was one girl who thorugh out the entire program probably metioned every friend, family member and individual she ever knew.

I always wanted to tell her to shut up!....then I remembered my therapeutic communication techniques and used silence hahaha

Specializes in Pediatrics.
I'm an instructor and I tell stories about patients that are intended to illustrate topics. When these things get out of hand with the whole gang adding things...is this what bugs you?
I think the problem is, that some students believe their stories are just as relevant. Usually they are not.
Specializes in Pediatrics.
I had a person in my class argue with an instructor about a test question last semester. The question read, "you hang a 1000 ml bag of IV fluid at 0800, and it is supposed to run in at 75 ml/hr. Upon checking vitals at 1200, you notice that only 350 ml of fluid remains in the IV bag. What is the first action you should take?" Of course, the answer was stop the IV fluid immediately. This person argued with my instructor for a good 20 minutes, and insisted that stopping the IV fluid without an MD's order was practicing medicine without a license. Fed up, and not sure of what else to say, my instructor threw her hands up in the air and said this: "let me make this as clear as I possibly can for you, since you obviously think that my 30 plus years of experience and doctorate degree in nursing aren't enough. Let's say you had a patient who couldn't swim and they fell into a pool. After they fall in, you see that the patient is drowning, and you know that saving them is as easy as pulling them out of the water. Are you going to call the physician to see if you can get an order to pull your drowning patient out of the water? No, I didn't think so, because that is absolutely ridiculous. Now, I am done discussing this; you chose the wrong answer, move on." Needless to say, this student didn't ask any more stupid questions for the rest of the semester.
This is a great story! Unfortunately, I'd be unemployed if I tried that type of response.
Specializes in Neuroscience.

That's really great of your instructor and I am jealous, lol.

One of my biggest pet peeves in class/clinical post conference, is being held up by others with their inane stories. I don't give a you-know-what! It's wasting my time and if it's not on the test, I don't want to hear about it. Talk to the teacher on your own time.

I don't mind examples from the instructor (unless they start waxing lyrical about their own family members, UGH!), but when students start responding to, and then veer off topic in response to the instructor's story, and the instructor keeps up the dialogue, I get frustrated.

I cannot stand off-topic conversation.

grownuprosie

377 Posts

I think the difference for me is that if the instructor is talking about HF, her stories will be concise and relevent stories about HF. When you see a hand shoot up in my class, it is 50/50 whether the question will actually relate to the disease process. We would loose up to 30 min per lecture on these tangents.

Also, I pay alot of money to listen to the instructor. So, if she wants to talk about pickling her garden vegetables I am going to listen without complaint because I trust that she would not say it if it did not relate to my nursing carreer. :)

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