Teacher's Pet

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Every nursing class has one....the much hated and ever present teacher's pet! There is a girl in my classes who is head of the Student Nursing Association that is absolutely cooed upon by my

nursing instructors. She kisses up to the instructors by adding an extra 10 pages to her careplans and requests extra homework for the entire class. Yesterday she gave an oral presentation that was supposed to go for 10 minutes. She went on and on for almost 45 minutes, keeping the rest of us in class 30 minutes late!

You'd think the professor would cut her short and remind her of the 10 minute time limit. No, instead she is given a standing ovation by the professor. Plus, the presentation was supposed to be about an intrapartum subject; she chooses post-partum depression. Hello!!!! Not even a viable INTRApartum topic. Anyone else have any teacher's pet gripes?

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Specializes in Adult Med-Surg, Rehab, and Ambulatory Care.
Originally posted by LPN2Be2004

However we do have our own "Band Camp". If anyone remembers that thread where someone described that student in class who had a story for everything, then ya know what i mean.

This girl, i swear, every ailment, disease or disorder we talk about she's either had it, her kids had/have it, or she knows someone that had/has it. Drives us nuts.

Yup...she's in my class too.:rolleyes:

Specializes in Adult Med-Surg, Rehab, and Ambulatory Care.
Originally posted by TeresaRN2b

You know the ones that ask questions they already know the answers to just to show off their knowledge.

Hey, I know her too! :stone

Specializes in critical care; community health; psych.

I don't try to be teacher's pet. It just happens. Because I'm usually the oldest and sit up front, they generally just gravitate to me. Someone they can relate to? It's a bit embarrassing, I must admit, to be singled out on the first day of class as THE target student. It's not that I'm actually the pet, it's more like they guage their instruction effectiveness by how well I seem to be catching on. Sort of a barometer. But like someone said before, as long as they slap a degree in my hand, they can stroke me all they want.

RN KittyCat, guess what, that is called NURSING LEADERSHIP, guess what you are one of the good guys and that is why your instructor and the students gravitate to you. See the nursing process still lives. I still have my faith and since no one reinforces Nursing Students properly anymore,

TADAH You are the correct example.......and I bet you don't polish your white shoes with high gloss Lemon pledge, so no one can see anywhere you go !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Specializes in critical care; community health; psych.

Well so that's what is its. And all the while I thought it was those shiny apples I sit on their desks.:rolleyes:

Oh heck I was always a follower when I was just a young thing so now it's time to go a different road. Life is good.

I'd've loved it if the instructors liked me at least a little bit--I was the one with the laptop, taking down every note, posting them in our own website.... sometimes classmates treated me like s**t--now I know why! (Funny, they never minded using the stuff I produced on the web....)

HA!

Our pet was actually several students, none of them especially bright, but all of them very savvy to the paranoia of the instructors, and especially the director. (Man, I wish she was reading this!)

You could tell who they were because they 1) hung out around her office, especially just before you got called in for some niggling little thing that usually wasn't even true, 2) stayed in the class even if they failed the semester (adjustments were invariably made) and 3) were described by some of our baser members as the RD's, related to the anatomical part of the director in which they must have lived, since they were so close to her they were practically in her chair when she sat down.

We finally figured it out and got rid of the worse one--I got terrible spam (from her?) for weeks afer she was booted out of class.

It's one of the reasons I'm glad I'm an Excelsior student--I can pick and choose who to study with, work with, prepare with. Do I miss the companionship of real, face to face fellow students? Sure. Do I miss getting fertilized on? No way.

Thanks for starting this thread. It felt good to vent!

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