Disturbing to anyone else???? NEED HELP.

allnurses Guide · Sep 9, 2006

(OH, yeah, and the reference about profanity being audible ignorance, well i guess i'm just as stupid as they get then :stone )

Marie - grandma also told me "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?". :mad:

I take the reference to "ignorance made audible" to mean what I think when I hear teens using profanity like "F" in a sentence about 5 times. It does actually seem like they cannot pull together one sentence without cussing and that does actually sound ignorant.

I doubt it is meant for those of us who occasionally slip and use profanity. Heck, grandma used to slip up too. One of the ways she tried not to cuss was to change the word . . . like the "S" word changed to "sugarfoot".

My grandma was from a different generation that considered profanity rude. And she definitely wouldn't put up with her teenage granddaughter swearing. I'd have gotten my mouth washed out with soap.

Remember, I'm an old lady myself - 49. :rolleyes: When I grew up, it was a big "no no" to swear. And I don't tolerate it in my own kids.

I realize times have changed - I'm just not convinced it is a good change.

Just call me an old fogey.

steph

kileen · Sep 9, 2006

I'd advise take what you can use from the lectures . Don't concentrate so much on the presenter. If you do this you will have problems getting along with people in your entire life. All people have their ideosyncracies. Accept them for who they are (and what they have to offer).

A saying I like to remind myself of is 'examine your life for the traits you find most irriatating in others.' In other words, concentrate on improving yourself because there is where you will notice the change and this is where you can truly make a difference.

All the best.

teeituptom, BSN, RN · Sep 9, 2006

Last week in our first 4 hour lecture with our Psych instructor (2nd yr NS) she apologized up front if she offends anyone because she is used to letting the "F" word fly and hopes it won't be a problem.
She also told us a simple way to remember the SE for cholinergic drugs:
Can't See
Can't Pee
Can't Spit
Can't Sh*t.
Am I being too touchy or is this extremely unprofessional coming from an instructor???
In addition to that (if that isn't enough), we were told it was against the rules to eat or drink in this classroom that is being loaned to us (by DON). If any of us are caught violating the rules, we can lose the classroom. The first night of instruction, this same instructor was 1/2 hr into her lecture and made the announcement that she cannot teach for 4 hours without water and proceeded to get her drink and brought it to the podium. Now many students are bringing in coffee, pepsi and food. Do I rat??? I am so uncomfortable. Please help.

Now what disturbs you in here, or are you just maybe a little to sensitive

pagandeva2000, LPN · Sep 9, 2006

I don't see the F word as being a big deal, but that's just me, and i rarely use it myself.
The food thing, we have a rule at our school about no food and drink, but hey, if i'm coming straight from working 10-12 hours, i AM going to eat (quietly of course) and drink something during class, and if they want to kick me out for that, go right ahead. I'm not going to dehydrate over some stupid rule.
(OH, yeah, and the reference about profanity being audible ignorance, well i guess i'm just as stupid as they get then :stone )

I had a rough schedule in school, where we had a lecture from 9 to 1 and then lab from 5-9. Then, the instructor told us that she had to change the schedule to where we had an hour break, then come back at 2-6:30. If she told the class that they could not have water, they would have rightfully mobbed her. We would have an evening class that ended at 10:00 pm that following semester and yet have to return to class the following morning at 9:00am, then at 1:00 pm, we had to travel to our evening clinical rotation site (that was NOT close) by 3:00 on the DOT. Shucks, we ate in that class, too. And, I was one that was cussing (under my breath) out of fatigue, and who knows who actually heard me, or who else was cursing, even out loud!?

pagandeva2000, LPN · Sep 9, 2006

...You will be called so many kind of XXX by your patients you will lose count. And some will need to be asked whether or XXX because they don't know any other word for it.

Yes, yes, yes.... eventually, you become numb to the names that the patients, families and even other staff members may call you.

P_RN, ADN, RN · Sep 10, 2006

Please keep in mind that the TOS is specific about thinly veiled profanity.

allnurses Guide · Sep 10, 2006

Now what disturbs you in here, or are you just maybe a little to sensitive

Tom - I love the threads you choose to post on. How the heck are you?

steph

jov · Sep 10, 2006

"I love the mneumonic (probably spelled that wrong)."

medical folks always go for the neu- in mnemonic. It cracks me up! (with a long stint as a medical transcriptionist, typos really jump out at me)... and this is one word that is just too close to pneumonia...

wellnessNP · Sep 11, 2006

You will see and hear a lot of things in medicine and nursing that may bother you. Get over it. You will probably not make it if you rat your professor. Please refrain from watching television because the F*****s are flying . Your teacher it sounds is trying to be creative and find ways to teach information that most students never think is important. Try to pay attention to what she or he is trying to get across and not the manner in which they are doing it and you will be much better off.

JaxiaKiley · Sep 11, 2006

Personally, it wouldn't bother me. Whatever helps me learn, even if it is a bit crude. And, I'd be glad about the drink rule change. I'd be leaving class every few minutes to get a drink if I had to deal with that rule. Just buck up and learn to go with the flow. Different strokes, ya know?

llgRN · Sep 12, 2006

Thank you, Timothy for the anti cholinergic comment....thought no one else was seeing that.

I am a Psych nurse, and that is one neumonic that one should learn about psych meds.....very big side effects in many of the psych meds. Also the extra pyramidal signs and symptoms are VERY important to know.

But, anyway, we should not "eat the young". I think newbies are so in tuned with doing the right thing, the right way, etc. etc etc. that they have difficulty seeing the "big picture". And know, I do not think it is OK for an instructor to swear during the lectures, BUT come on...she's drinking WATER and you are having a moral dilemma?

twotrees2 · Sep 12, 2006

What is it with psych instructors?
My instructor was lecturing in front of the class, placed her little finger in her ear and twisted it around as if she had an itch, pulled it out, looked at whatever she had pulled out of there and then placed her finger in her mouth and sucked whatever it was off. :uhoh21: All the while talking.
It was sort of an unconscious thing, like eating boogers . . . but it grossed us out.
steph

one of mine took us on a field trip to a prison and on the way home we all stopped to gamble!! seemed fitting to me NOT lol. another used to go "out" drinking with a lot of the younger gals who drank a lot - i thought it was kinda sad actually but to each his own i guess lol.