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No. 50
from CityKat
Old Jul 16, 2009, 01:24 PM

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I remember very well this one guy who was in my nursing program, one semester behind me. He would talk in med surg class and walk around trying to get answers, as though it was "ok". I used to get so annoyed when he would try and say hello to me b/c I was such a hard worker in school and he was blatantly cheating. Ahhh..I can still remember him and at one point, pointed out to a professor that people in the back were cheating. Nothing was ever done and he graduated and is working in Brooklyn, NY at a hospital where the main population are the elderly

Grrr..it's just so wrong, on so many levels.
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No. 51
from VickyRN
Old Jul 16, 2009, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by CityKat View Post
I remember very well this one guy who was in my nursing program, one semester behind me. He would talk in med surg class and walk around trying to get answers, as though it was "ok". I used to get so annoyed when he would try and say hello to me b/c I was such a hard worker in school and he was blatantly cheating. Ahhh..I can still remember him and at one point, pointed out to a professor that people in the back were cheating. Nothing was ever done and he graduated and is working in Brooklyn, NY at a hospital where the main population are the elderly

Grrr..it's just so wrong, on so many levels.
That is indeed frightening.
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No. 52
from Okechi
Old Jul 19, 2009, 05:47 AM

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My "lovely" teacher has teacher's pets...3 to be exact. One of them (who is from her country of origin) had the nerve to say " she will not let me fail"
Ohhh goshhhh there's been soo many times i wanted to cry because this teacher would even give them THE TEST we were going to take that week. EVEN bring it to clinicals. Oh man oh man! It's sooo frustrating when she thinks none of us notice it, but during scoring she would say " EVERYONE" passed....and look at a certain someone in obvious signs that student fail but she was not gona let it happen. I thought to myself, this is not my problem....but it just affects the way your mind functions in such a bad way.
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No. 53
from Nurse-88
Old Jul 19, 2009, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Okechi View Post
My "lovely" teacher has teacher's pets...3 to be exact. One of them (who is from her country of origin) had the nerve to say " she will not let me fail"
Ohhh goshhhh there's been soo many times i wanted to cry because this teacher would even give them THE TEST we were going to take that week. EVEN bring it to clinicals. Oh man oh man! It's sooo frustrating when she thinks none of us notice it, but during scoring she would say " EVERYONE" passed....and look at a certain someone in obvious signs that student fail but she was not gona let it happen. I thought to myself, this is not my problem....but it just affects the way your mind functions in such a bad way.
I would report that to the Dean ASAP!
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No. 54
Old Jul 19, 2009, 02:17 PM

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There were a few suspected cheaters in my class, one of whom was the President of our class. He failed his first attempt at the Boards. A fellow student who I USED to hang out with e-mailed me with test questions. I don't know how she got them, but I told her I refused to open the attachment and to NEVER send anything like that again. That's the only test that quarter she did well on, and it took her SIX times to pass Boards. Some people!
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No. 55
from belgarion
Old Jul 20, 2009, 08:33 PM

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In my nursing classes if your cell phone goes off during a regular class you get a demerit. No excuses, no exceptions. If it goes off during a test it's even worse. I know. Mine went off one day. It was nurse at the ICU where my mother was a patient and under heavy sedation. I had her medical power of attorney and they needed my permission to do a couple of procedures. Even after explaining this, I still got the demerit.
I can't think of any one in my class with the guts to even look at a cell phone during class, much less a test.
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No. 56
from roses246
Old Jul 21, 2009, 12:45 PM

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Some time ago, I was taking some courses, I was seated at the very front row across from the instructor's desk so I was able to see most of what the other students did when they came to the front of the class. All of us were advised to wash our hands after each break. The sink was located directly behind the instructor's desk. Every once in a while, some of the students would walk up to the sink to wash their hands, at the same time they would take a glance over to her desk. The cheaters would copy the answers and share with others in the back of the class. One day they copied the answers for the wrong test.
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No. 57
from CityKat
Old Jul 21, 2009, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by ClinicalJunkie View Post
There were a few suspected cheaters in my class, one of whom was the President of our class. He failed his first attempt at the Boards. A fellow student who I USED to hang out with e-mailed me with test questions. I don't know how she got them, but I told her I refused to open the attachment and to NEVER send anything like that again. That's the only test that quarter she did well on, and it took her SIX times to pass Boards. Some people!
I would just like to point out that just b/c someone fails the boards, does not mean they were cheating in school. Sadly, I failed the boards a few times and I was a hardworking student who graduated with honors. I'm just a bad test taker when I am timed. I actually knew a lot of students who cheated, passed the boards the first time and they work in LTC and the ICU. So..
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No. 58
Old Jul 30, 2009, 08:14 AM

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Originally Posted by CityKat View Post
I would just like to point out that just b/c someone fails the boards, does not mean they were cheating in school. Sadly, I failed the boards a few times and I was a hardworking student who graduated with honors. I'm just a bad test taker when I am timed. I actually knew a lot of students who cheated, passed the boards the first time and they work in LTC and the ICU. So..
Oh! I certainly didn't mean it to sound like that! So sorry. I guess at the time the rest of our class just felt like it served them right. Sorry for any offense that may have been taken!
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No. 59
from Moogie
Old Aug 04, 2009, 01:37 AM

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I'm concerned about cheating in prerequisites as well as in nursing courses. Seems to me that the extreme competitiveness of many programs may tempt a lot of students to cheat. How can someone be a successful nursing student if he/she cheated on the prereqs?
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