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| No. 100 | 
Feb 19, 2009, 09:40 PM
 Re: Tell me your GPA. Just wanna compare Originally Posted by jaywolves  Somehow, I totally understand the lower grades. 
I'm just messing with you at this point. Don't take it seriously.
There is not much I do. lol.
I love the 4.0 students the ego is so huge when a lesser grade student confounds them they panic like a deer in headlights, it is so much fun, try it sometimes.
Just because you didn't get the A doesn't mean you tried to get it, Not trying and geting the A- or B+ is much more rewarding.
Intellect>Grades. Grades mean very little to nothing in the end. = watch for the egomanics 4.0 students reply to this saying. haha
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Feb 19, 2009, 11:26 PM
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Feb 19, 2009 at 11:39 PM by js408
Re: Tell me your GPA. Just wanna compare Originally Posted by nursinguy 145 IQ, I don't need a escuse.
It's spelled "excuse"
Sorry, couldn't resist!
| | No. 102 |
Feb 20, 2009, 09:32 AM
Re: Tell me your GPA. Just wanna compare
I know a lot of guys that have the same goals of getting into the nursing program who believe that the smallest amount of effort that will get them into the program is the best philosophy. In a major outside of healthcare and medicine, I might be tempted to agree. However, when the educational pursuit is focused towards providing care for a human being, I have a hard time accepting this philosophy.
Sure it's fine for business or marketing. It's simply not okay for someone who will literally hold someone else's life in their hands. If you can pull B+ and A- scores without putting forth an effort, you owe it to your future patients to pull the A. You owe it to your future career to give everything you've got, everyday. The exhaustion, the frustration of not seeing your friends and not having a social life are all parts of it. The sleepless nights, weekends spent immersed in a text, classroom presentations that captivate your peers because of your attention to detail. This is all part of the training experience. The ground work for a career where you may have to sacrifice dinner plans because a co-worker called in sick and you have to work a double. It is the foundation for a career where your compassion will mean MORE than your intellect. Where your ability to give 110% ALWAYS, isn't going to be asked of you, but expected.
I see your point and yes, some of us are gifted students. A lazy approach to school isn't going to benefit your patients, I don't care what kind of grades you pull. Your desire to be the best, to work with the best, and to provide the best possible care are the only things that will matter. I am a bit concerned for you when you make comments that "you still have to have a life" or that "Just because you didn't get the A doesn't mean you tried to get it, Not trying and geting the A- or B+ is much more rewarding."
It won't be rewarding to a patient's family when you "could have worked for it" and saved a life, but chose to "have a life instead."
Personally, nothing quite irritates me more than a student who could have been the top student but didn't want to apply themselves. If it works for you - terrific. Don't think for a second you'll coast through your career with that attitude.
| | No. 103 |
Feb 21, 2009, 03:58 PM
Re: Tell me your GPA. Just wanna compare Originally Posted by jaywolves I know a lot of guys that have the same goals of getting into the nursing program who believe that the smallest amount of effort that will get them into the program is the best philosophy. In a major outside of healthcare and medicine, I might be tempted to agree. However, when the educational pursuit is focused towards providing care for a human being, I have a hard time accepting this philosophy.
Sure it's fine for business or marketing. It's simply not okay for someone who will literally hold someone else's life in their hands. If you can pull B+ and A- scores without putting forth an effort, you owe it to your future patients to pull the A. You owe it to your future career to give everything you've got, everyday. The exhaustion, the frustration of not seeing your friends and not having a social life are all parts of it. The sleepless nights, weekends spent immersed in a text, classroom presentations that captivate your peers because of your attention to detail. This is all part of the training experience. The ground work for a career where you may have to sacrifice dinner plans because a co-worker called in sick and you have to work a double. It is the foundation for a career where your compassion will mean MORE than your intellect. Where your ability to give 110% ALWAYS, isn't going to be asked of you, but expected.
I see your point and yes, some of us are gifted students. A lazy approach to school isn't going to benefit your patients, I don't care what kind of grades you pull. Your desire to be the best, to work with the best, and to provide the best possible care are the only things that will matter. I am a bit concerned for you when you make comments that "you still have to have a life" or that "Just because you didn't get the A doesn't mean you tried to get it, Not trying and geting the A- or B+ is much more rewarding."
It won't be rewarding to a patient's family when you "could have worked for it" and saved a life, but chose to "have a life instead."
Personally, nothing quite irritates me more than a student who could have been the top student but didn't want to apply themselves. If it works for you - terrific. Don't think for a second you'll coast through your career with that attitude.
What you are failing to realize is the a A in Theory, does not always translate to a A in real life nursing pratice. Iv'e seen it time and time again, especially from the straight A students.
| | No. 104 |
Feb 21, 2009, 04:19 PM
Re: Tell me your GPA. Just wanna compare
The chances of an A in school translating to an A in real life nursing are a whole lot higher than a B or C in school translating into an A in real life nursing. You're still trying to rationalize your low GPA as somehow making you smarter or meaning nothing. Neither is true.
No one is saying that B students aren't smart. Not everyone can get A's, it's really hard to get an A and most students SHOULD NOT be able to, or else everyone would get an A and it would be meaningless. If a professor is grading on a bell curve, then 68.2% of students will have a C (average store), 13.6% will get a B, and 2.1% will get an A. Originally Posted by nursinguy What you are failing to realize is the a A in Theory, does not always translate to a A in real life nursing pratice. Iv'e seen it time and time again, especially from the straight A students. | | No. 105 |
Feb 21, 2009, 08:05 PM
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Feb 21, 2009 at 08:22 PM by nursinguy
Re: Tell me your GPA. Just wanna compare Originally Posted by js408 The chances of an A in school translating to an A in real life nursing are a whole lot higher than a B or C in school translating into an A in real life nursing. You're still trying to rationalize your low GPA as somehow making you smarter or meaning nothing. Neither is true.
No one is saying that B students aren't smart. Not everyone can get A's, it's really hard to get an A and most students SHOULD NOT be able to, or else everyone would get an A and it would be meaningless. If a professor is grading on a bell curve, then 68.2% of students will have a C (average store), 13.6% will get a B, and 2.1% will get an A.
there is No bell curse in my Nursing school.
You have bought into the assumtion that gpa translates in clinical.
GPA is not intellengence, it is a peice of paper you are putting your trust in, it is meaningless. If it where so important as you claime, then nure manager would pull out your GPA when hiring you, guess what chum? They don't. The sooner you realize that the better.
Experience and intelligence trump paper grades! If you don't believe this just brag that grades matter to you new co-workers and you might see a unpleasant reaction to you on the unit you are hired. I can garantee it.
| | No. 107 |
Feb 26, 2009, 09:39 PM
Re: Tell me your GPA. Just wanna compare Originally Posted by PatMicNic Does anyone ask about grades after nursing school?????? Doubt it
Exactly!
But this bothers someone with a nasistic personality trait or disorder. Ego maniacs just go nuts when you say that.
hahaha  | | No. 109 |
Mar 19, 2009, 09:06 PM
Re: Tell me your GPA. Just wanna compare
Well said and well played.
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I also hope it helps me get into a GN program at my hospital of choice. 
I expect that will be the last time (until grad school) anyone looks at or cares about my GPA. I have to agree with both sides of this thread, hard work and perseverence mean something especially in the challenge of a nursing program, but I know many of my fellow students have a better knowledge base for patient care, more experience and at least as much brains (gotta be a little nassistic rite?). :chuckle Grades definitely don't make the nurse from my experiences in clinical and as a CNA but intelligent and well educated nurses can save lives. I can only hope that "us guys with our measuring" can get over it when we have life experience as nurses that outweighs the meaning of measure. 
Lives and love matter more than all of the rest put together! 
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