Do you guys see a lot of people saying they are nursing students....

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or go to nursing school and than find out they are still in the Pre Req phase? I swear I have seen a good number of people do this, and than when I say, "Oh what semester are you in, I am in this semester" they are like, Oh well I am not actually in yet but I start pre reqs soon, or I just started pre reqs. I wonder why that is. Before I started the actual program I would say if asked that I was doing Pre Reqs to get into the nursing program. Or I am on the waitlist for the nursing program.

Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
I understand discussions, it's where folks chime in and give their opinion. I gave mine: I can't understand why anyone would care about this.

And wow! LOL You flatter yourself, trust me....you don't hit my radar (other than noticing your name after I roll my eyes at a post....I've noticed quite a pattern on that actually).

I just noticed that you actually started this thread, I often notice your posts after I've posted somewhere....but truly, it would be hard to find threads that you haven't posted in.

Okie Dokie, If you say so!

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Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.

I personally don't really care that much. I do see how others might though, simply because being able to claim it only after having earned it gives a sense of a validated achievement.

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I personally don't really care that much. I do see how others might though, simply because being able to claim it only after having earned it gives a sense of a validated achievement.

I really feel that after someone works hard to get into a program (primarily ASN/ADN which I feel are much more competitive than BSN) and can call themselves a nursing student it makes their accomplishment seem like less when so many non-nursing students claim to be nursing simply because that is their goal.

My goal is to be a CRNA..should I call myself a nurse anesthesia student? No, absolutely not.

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I really feel that after someone works hard to get into a program (primarily ASN/ADN which I feel are much more competitive than BSN) and can call themselves a nursing student it makes their accomplishment seem like less when so many non-nursing students claim to be nursing simply because that is their goal.

My goal is to be a CRNA..should I call myself a nurse anesthesia student? No, absolutely not.

I'm not saying that folks should call themselves something they aren't....I just don't think it's important if they do. Again, they're not claiming to be licensed, they can't hurt anyone. Their claims do nothing to diminish me or anyone else.

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... I don't want to hear you (you being general) lecturing me about nursing school, what I should be doing, how it should be, and so on. Until you are actually doing the nursing courses and stuff you have no idea what it's like and it's not the same as the pre req classes.

I don't think anyone is arguing that pre-req nursing students (by whatever definition) should be able to 'lecture' more experienced nurses. Using one description over a more complicated one, for the average conversation, is a completely different matter.

Chill out!

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I don't think anyone is arguing that pre-req nursing students (by whatever definition) should be able to 'lecture' more experienced nurses. Using one description over a more complicated one, for the average conversation, is a completely different matter.

Chill out!

Both of these things were addressed in this thread. I addressed the "calling yourself a nursing student" in my first post. Another poster brought up the other issue. Someone asked for clarification on something and I gave it. I don't need to chill out, I am not worked up. I was clarifying the question that was asked of me.

FYI~the part of my post you quoted has nothing to do with Pre Nursing student and experienced nurses. The point I was making, was about Pre-Nursing students "lecturing" Nursing Students, which happens on this board all the time. If you aren't in nursing school and taking nursing classes, you don't know what it's like.

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

If you aren't in nursing school and taking nursing classes, you don't know what it's like.

This is a great point.

Everyone hears about how they cannot possibly prepare for what NS is like and if they are like me they think that this does not really apply to them.

Then, if and when they get there, they realize that they were utterly unprepared for it and that there really isn't much one can do to get completely prepared for it.

The truth is that NS really is a different world.

  • You will see people crying and freaking out, you may even cry and freak out a little yourself.
  • You will take your first exam and wonder what just hit you even though you studied as much and as profitably as you could have.
  • After this first exam, you will realize that you have no idea how to study for this.
  • You will read hundreds of pages of information that makes about as much immediate impact on your brain as binary data would on that of an ape.
  • You will write ten papers in one semester and participate in two or three group assignments which will each amount to only ten per cent of your over all grade but you know you better do them because you may need that ten per cent even though they are time consuming and mind-numbing.
  • You will deal with students who think they know everything and don't.
  • You will have instructors who expect you to perform at a level higher than any you have ever performed at before and you will get very few if any cues as to how to meet their expectations.
  • You will spend most of your time worrying and you will be justified in your worry because everything is, ultimately, within your control.

So, yes, we are protective of our prerogatives and titles and if you think it's not a big deal, you are either a better person than I am, a fool, lying, or aren't in a program yet.

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This is a great point.

Everyone hears about how they cannot possibly prepare for what NS is like and if they are like me they think that this does not really apply to them.

Then, if and when they get there, they realize that they were utterly unprepared for it and that there really isn't much one can do to get completely prepared for it.

The truth is that NS really is a different world.

  • You will see people crying and freaking out.
  • You will take your first exam and wonder what just hit you.
  • You will read pages and pages of information that makes about as much immediate impact on your brain as binary data would on that of an ape.
  • You will write ten papers in one semester and participate in two or three group assignments which will each amount to only ten per cent of your over all grade but you know you better do them because you may need that ten per cent even though they are time consuming and mind-numbing.
  • You will deal with students who think they know everything and don't.
  • You will have instructors who expect you to perform at a level higher than any you have ever performed at before and you will get very little if any cues as to how to meet their expectations.
  • You will spend most of your time worrying and you will be justified in your worry because everything is, ultimately, within your control.

So, yes, we are protective of our prerogatives and titles and if you think it's not a big deal, you are either a better person than I am, a fool, lying, or aren't in a program yet.

I assure you, I've been called many things....but never a fool. I'll graduate from my program this year, am telling the truth and have no illusion that I'm better than anyone else.

I just don't see how what someone calls themselves, diminishes my accomplishments in the least. Either they will get in to a program and graduate or they won't and folks will wonder why they're a nursing student for a decade. Neither one impacts me in the least.

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I really feel that after someone works hard to get into a program (primarily ASN/ADN which I feel are much more competitive than BSN)

Maybe where you live... :confused:

Why do you think that?

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

CuriousMe,

I think you missed all the options.

Anyway, you may very well be a better person than I and the majority of Student Nurses are. I hope you are.

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

And it's not a question of having ones accomplishments diminished.

It's a matter of telling the truth.

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Specializes in School Nursing.
Oh yes I love the posts about how nursing school is from non nursing students. I imagine it's much how the nurses feel when they are blasted by students, although at least in clinicals and stuff we get a glimpse on the other side. But still isn't the same.

I'm not sure if someone else has pointed this out yet but some people may not update their profiles and may in fact now be nursing students.

I don't tell people I'm a nursing student.. but I think your annoyance is kind of petty (and elitist) ... and to dog on a girl for buying a lab kit because you want two seems a bit ridiculous especially because you're saying there aren't enough to go around (and you want TWO of them??) She's obviously excited about the prospect of nursing school.. give her a break.

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