Differences between Comm. College and Private?

[Student InNJ]

At a more expensive and/or prestigious school do you:

(1) Have teachers who don't follow through on what they say?

(2) Have lab classes where chemicals are expired/outdated?

(3) Have Skill Labs where you only pretend you're doing the skill because your dummies or SimMans don't work as they should?

(4) Professors who are condescending? Whose final rebuttal to a discussion is "My Test...My answers" (not literally but it might as well be?

(5) Where Professors say "You're Nurses, be flexible", but their motto seems to be "We're teachers...we're not"?

I do like my classes and my program but somedays, with this being one, I get fed up with all the B.S.

Ah....I feel much better now.

Thanks all....good luck with your studies! Oh, and if anyone becomes a teacher, please

remember what it was lick to be a student.

[Pneumothorax, BSN, RN]

(1) have teachers who don't follow through on what they say? yes

(2) have lab classes where chemicals are expired/outdated? yes, its for safety, & so some scumbag doesnt run off w/ a fresh vial of zofran or ativan

(3) have skill labs where you only pretend you're doing the skill because your dummies or simmans don't work as they should? or because the teacher doesnt know how to use it..yes, or because its completely ridiculous to do simulation, yes.

(4) professors who are condescending? whose final rebuttal to a discussion is "my test...my answers" (not literally but it might as well be? oh yeah, youve never met the insufferable ***** i had for ob, she was terrible.

(5) where professors say "you're nurses, be flexible", but their motto seems to be "we're teachers...we're not"? ya they dont practice what they preach or dont even remembe what they told us...mmhmm

hope that helps. theres issues at every college. just keep ur nose in ur book, do well on ur exams and get the heck out :)

[JROregon, ASN, BSN, RN]

The difference is about $50,000. Just keep plugging away. Every term, I set my sights on the hour that begins after the final exam. Nursing instructors, especially at community colleges, have to put up with a lot of BS from their schools too. They don't have the best work schedules or lightest workload either. I've discovered that you can learn something valuable from both the good and the bad instructors.