A&P 1 - central nervous system

not a very inspiring person, are they? the professor's opinion may be based on past experience and their knowledge and ability to have looked into the academic records of c students who have gone on into the nursing program. or, it could be a scare tactic to try to get students to study harder. i can tell you that in nursing school as you are introduced to each medical disease a short review of the pertinent anatomy and physiology is done. nothing ever prevents anyone from opening an a&p textbook and refreshing themselves about a subject in the future.

Oh god, please let us not have the "A" student versus "C" student argument again........

There are instructors who have a negative bend and those who have a positive bend. I've had both. I think that the ones with a positive bend, by far, get a better response from students. As I said above, they will inspire--in those who want to be inspired. I had a chemistry professor--a full professor--who looked at us in the lecture hall our first day of class, pointed his finger at us and swept it across the hall and said in a booming voice, "Half of you will drop out or fail this course because you won't do the studying required. And it is doubtful that anyone will get an A." What was worse was that he went on about how he was one of the authors of the textbook we were going to be using. Talk about someone who was very vane! People were shaking in their shoes as they came out of that class. MJany of us had him for lab as well and he was just as mean. It was always his way or the highway. And, half the class, maybe more, did end up dropping. Test scores were low. He didn't even lecture from his book although he tested heavily from it we found out on the first test.

My nursing instructors were different. Open. Encouraged us to ask any questions. Patient. Never chided us if we strayed in a point of view, but found a way to get us back on the right path. Everyone was tolerated and felt protected and nurtured. We thrived. No one dropped out. We all passed our state board exam.

I came from a household where my mother was a strict authoritarian very much like Judge Judy or a Doctor Laura--all the time. I owe my nursing instructors a great deal because they showed me a better way I had never known before. It is not easy to change the behavior we are taught from childhood and I grew up around negativity. Fear as a motivator is not an environment that promotes healthy success.