Unappreciative classmates

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Today was our final day of classes for a summer course and my teacher decided to host a little review for the final. Some of my classmates complained the entire time ("I don't like the way we're reviewing" or "I'd rather her just go over whats going to be on the test")

AH~ I just wanted to shake them. Really our teacher didn't have to give any review. Our teacher doesn't have to give topic outlines for the tests. How are you going to complain when our instructor is TRYING to help. Oh lord, its like the world owes them something.

:banghead: Just a little rant!

Anyone else have this problem? I try to smile and say that its helpful, and at least we get this much. Some instructors just say "study the chapters". :) Gotta love your peers

I used to teach review sessions, optional, not during class time. Sometimes people came, sometimes they didn't. But there was major whining about throwing out questions and so forth afterwards. I once lost a little cool and said that if these people put half the effort into studying that they put into calculating their GPA to the fourth decimal place to figure out how many questions they needed thrown out to pass with a 74 (!) we wouldn't be listening to this.

Most faculty will be happy to help you. But this is college. You have to come to the table.

My daughter the professor (not of nursing) had this haiku up on her office door:

Office hours.

Once again, no one comes in.

Perhaps they'll all fail.

Do not be that student.

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I agree with your classmate. Why are we required to learn all the crap about obscure or pretty rare diseases in nursing school? What are the odds the Dr is going to be totally stumped and the nurse jumps up and screams "I HAVE IT!!!" She has XXXXX. It only affects 6 people a year that visit a remote area of Brazil. Nursing school could be streamlined and either have better prepared nurses or get through the program quicker.

Because every nurse can tell you about cases that a nurse recognized and saved lives, that's why. If it were your kid or your mother and the nurse recognized something first and saved time, would you say her better education was a waste of time?

Nurses are far more important than students know, and this comment is a perfect illustration.

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Specializes in Trauma.

There is a difference in a nurse recognizing when a pt is going south and a Dr. scratching his head because he has no idea what is wrong with Mr. Jones. Nurse Williams may diagnose a pt that the Dr cannot, what? Once in a 30 yr career?

You wanna make a nurse's education worth the time? Make them proficient in skills, reading ECG strips, time management, charting, etc. upon graduation. Focus heavily on the everyday things and back off of the obscure things that are rarely seen.

Because every nurse can tell you about cases that a nurse recognized and saved lives, that's why. If it were your kid or your mother and the nurse recognized something first and saved time, would you say her better education was a waste of time?

Nurses are far more important than students know, and this comment is a perfect illustration.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Ortho, Subacute, Homecare, LTC.

Well, it was bladder exstrophy, it's not *that* rare. The professor said I've never seen it working in the hospitals.. and because she said that the student automatically assumed it was some asinine thing to learn. It wasn't so much learning rare things, but being disrespectful.

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Specializes in Trauma.

I imagine the tone of the student would play a part in how the question was asked. I had a former Peds nurse for an instructor that loved to take up about 1/4-1/3 of the lecture time talking and crying about her family and some of her past patients. At times it took everything in me not to tell her to shut the hell up with the personal crap and just teach the class. I'm not trying to be hard hearted but I'm not paying tuition to be her therapist and her problems will not be on my NCLEX exam.

I feel nursing school is all about me! Call me selfish.

Well, it was bladder exstrophy, it's not *that* rare. The professor said I've never seen it working in the hospitals.. and because she said that the student automatically assumed it was some asinine thing to learn. It wasn't so much learning rare things, but being disrespectful.
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There is a difference in a nurse recognizing when a pt is going south and a Dr. scratching his head because he has no idea what is wrong with Mr. Jones. Nurse Williams may diagnose a pt that the Dr cannot, what? Once in a 30 yr career?

The assumption that only physicians know signs and symptoms for medical diagnosis and nurses can only be relied upon to recognize when a patient is "going south" is demeaning and, frankly, ignorant. As I said, there are a lot of smart docs who recognize that knowledge has no artificial limits on where it resides. Would that there were more nurses who recognize this too.

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Specializes in ED; Med Surg.

Sounds like my tutoring sessions...when I would hear that students (who came once...maybe twice) would say "I went to tutoring but it didn't help".

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I think nursing school, unfortunately, attracts a certain "type." These types are control freaks who literally are not happy unless they're complaining about something. Unfortunately, these types leave nursing school and become nurses who, guess what? They're control freaks and they complain about everything. That other hospital is SOOOOOOOO much better than this hospital, and they should be lucky I work here? If it's so much greater there, go work there. I hate nights soooo much, I'm tired of it, I should quit. Then do it.

We had an info session for the next semester and you wanna know what happened? Someone "complained" about the info session to someone other than the professor giving the info session, going over her head, when she EXPRESSLY ASKED that if students have a problem with her teaching style, information given, ect, they come to her. Add to the top of that students who are barely passing and it's everyone else's fault, and you've got some serious whiney pants people.

I avoid these people like the plague.

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I agree with your classmate. Why are we required to learn all the crap about obscure or pretty rare diseases in nursing school? What are the odds the Dr is going to be totally stumped and the nurse jumps up and screams "I HAVE IT!!!" She has XXXXX. It only affects 6 people a year that visit a remote area of Brazil. Nursing school could be streamlined and either have better prepared nurses or get through the program quicker.

Imagine how thrilled your patient would be if you DID have the answer. This is precisely what saved my father's life as a child; someone who'd heard about an obscure illness one time in school. He proposed the possibility, they tested and they saved his life. 5 minutes of my time is worth the miniscule chance. I'm not for celebrating mediocrity.

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