So What Am I Paying You For??

smurfy · Mar 13, 2007

that is something that happens alot. I am in my next to last semester and the previous ones we were read to. this semester, the teacher just babbeled on about her issues and thoughts and then told us that all chapters in the syllabus would be on the test. So at test time it was a pure gamble about what would be covered.

hang in there

amybethf · Mar 13, 2007

Are u referring to the ERI tests?

EmerNurse, BSN, RN · Mar 13, 2007

That's why I didn't show up to half my lectures. I can read to myself thankyouverymuch. Drove them nuts but thank God attendance wasn't part of the grade (I checked before I skipped) and they didn't give me grief since I did very well on my tests. Used to think I needed a refund for all the stuff we had to teach ourselves. They gave us copies of all the power points at the beginning of the semester and THEN read them to us in class. Give me a break.

Just get through it. It'll be a good training in frustration for all the BS you'll see as a working nurse.

allnurses Guide · Mar 13, 2007

That's why I didn't show up to half my lectures. I can read to myself thankyouverymuch. Drove them nuts but thank God attendance wasn't part of the grade (I checked before I skipped) and they didn't give me grief since I did very well on my tests. Used to think I needed a refund for all the stuff we had to teach ourselves. They gave us copies of all the power points at the beginning of the semester and THEN read them to us in class. Give me a break.
Just get through it. It'll be a good training in frustration for all the BS you'll see as a working nurse.

Oh, that drives me crazy as well . .. . there are teachers everywhere who do that . . . read from a power point or a book.

Had an EMT class once where we had assigned reading. Show up for class and the teacher stood up front reading it again. Monotone voice. So boring.

What do we pay those kinds of teachers for? :nono:

steph

doubleplay · Mar 17, 2007

I can't remember the last time a class was fun. I'm tired of them reading to us all class also. Teachers are supposed to guide you through the material, but I feel like sometimes they steer you in the wrong direction. The last exam we took they directed us to 7 pages of stuff that we had to know right before the final, and low and behold there were maybe three questions out of eighty on those 7 pages. You would of been better off to spend your time on other stuff and guess on those questions. I think there has to be a better way to learn all of this. We all have an interest in the subject, and the subject is interesting. They just need to come up with some new approaches. :monkeydance:

RNDave · Mar 17, 2007

snip....how about they just get teachers that actually teach and do not just read straight from their power points, that came with the teachers edition of the textbooks...snip

You've hit it on the head. It suggests to me that the instructor doesn't actually know his/her subject matter. A mortal sin for college level instruction.

Dave

justme1972 · Mar 17, 2007

Oh, that drives me crazy as well . .. . there are teachers everywhere who do that . . . read from a power point or a book.
Had an EMT class once where we had assigned reading. Show up for class and the teacher stood up front reading it again. Monotone voice. So boring.
What do we pay those kinds of teachers for?
steph

A better question is....why do schools keep ANY of them?

I had a history professor once that had a huge binder...of the lecture itself.

He just stood up and read from it, every single day, for the full hour. He must have broken it down into sections because he said, "Oh, 4.6, that looks like a good stopping place."

We were not permitted to ask questions in his class...we had to put the question in writing, and he would give us an answer for the NEXT class..and I suspect it's because he had to look the answer up because he didn't know himself.

I swear, teaching has got to be the only profession on the planet, where once you get a job, you can literally stop doing you job, and you never have to worry about losing it.

RN BSN 2009 · Mar 17, 2007

A better question is....why do schools keep ANY of them?
I had a history professor once that had a huge binder...of the lecture itself.
He just stood up and read from it, every single day, for the full hour. He must have broken it down into sections because he said, "Oh, 4.6, that looks like a good stopping place."
We were not permitted to ask questions in his class...we had to put the question in writing, and he would give us an answer for the NEXT class..and I suspect it's because he had to look the answer up because he didn't know himself.
I swear, teaching has got to be the only profession on the planet, where once you get a job, you can literally stop doing you job, and you never have to worry about losing it.

That's awful! :madface:

I_am_Julia · Mar 18, 2007

it's very hard to recruit nurse educators because of the pay. often times (not all) the nurses who are teachers are the ones who were burnt out or mediocre nurses.

we have these exams through out our program that we have to pass, we can get 100% in the class but if we fail one of the exms we are out of the program...it is all so they can get their nclex scores up....how about they just get teachers that actually teach and do not just read straight from their power points, that came with the teachers edition of the textbooks, and even say that "this is a self taugh course" i feel like saying, "oh really, thats funny, i though i wrote a check to the college that goes towords your salary.":trout: any one else feel this way?

jnj818 · Mar 18, 2007

I have the same problem with several (actually most) of the instructors in my program. What really gets me is that we are required to be in class unless we have some sort of documented excuse. We spend so much time in class that I could be home studying. I've started to just use the time in class to try to read, but I find it really hard to concentrate. I really wish that my nursing program offered these classes online. I would probably get A's instead of B's and C's because I would actually have time to study. I learn nothing in class. Isn't there something terribly wrong with this picture? That's nursing school, I guess.

BonnieSc · Mar 18, 2007

I guess I've been lucky--haven't had this experience with any of my teachers in the nursing program. We have to take the ATIs, and the NCLEX pass rate HAS improved since we started taking them, but I think in my school's case it isn't because the quality of the teaching isn't good--it's that our instructors are teaching us to be nurses, not to pass the NCLEX. The ATI, I think, sort of fills in the cracks (and gets us used to computer testing, and not necessarily knowing all the answers).