Don't nursing school rumors drive you crazy...

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I have to vent about this. It's a big pet peeve of mine. When other student start gossiping about how an instructor tests or how many failed the rotation before?

Personally, when they start to this, I want to cover my ears and scream because all my confidence I built up during my studying does out the window and the test anxiety comes on strong. :angryfire

I can only think of two ways to resolve this a) Stay AWAY from the other students closer to test time or b) bring headphones or earplugs with me until the teacher walks in.

Any insight? Suggestions? Words of experience?

I would be thankful, I think I get more anxious about the gossip and trying to guessimate how I will do by how the previous group did than about the test material itself!

Thanks

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There is a girl in my ANP lab who is a lulu!!:rolleyes: I just try to ignore as much as possible and not let the rumors about this class or that teacher bother me, (as hard as that is). I just keep trying to remember that the first day of ANP 101, the prof, who is the dept. head and who wrote the study guide for lecture, said that out of about 300 people who actually finished the previous class, (about half), only 21 A's were made. That comment scared me to death!! In my ANP 101 class, about 300 finished, (that seems to be the average number :) ), there were about 20 A's and guess who had one of them?! I decided that I was NOT going to let that stuff get to me, I just work hard and spend as much study time as possible.

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Rumors of this kind can only help you, if you make it that way. . .If someone says, "I heard this instructor hates everyone", make it your goal to be the only person the instructor likes. . .If someone says, "Half of the class failed this test last semester", make it your goal to be one of the ones that will pass it this semester. . .Turn negatives into positives for you. :) Good luck.

I like you're thinking!

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Specializes in Operating Room.
I like you're thinking!

:yeahthat:

Thanks! :) Rumors are just that, everyone has to make their own opinions....you can go with what you have heard, which can bring you down from the beginning, or you can rise above it.

Good luck to you all.

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Specializes in Dialysis (All Modalities) , Ex-CVICU RN.
I have to vent about this. It's a big pet peeve of mine. When other student start gossiping about how an instructor tests or how many failed the rotation before?

I can only think of two ways to resolve this a) Stay AWAY from the other students closer to test time or b) bring headphones or earplugs with me until the teacher walks in.

Any insight? Suggestions? Words of experience?

Hehehe I can only imagine but i feel you. It got very annoying before the first exams were handed. I study solo and stay away from my fellow classmates before test time, they are little stressballs releasing their stress on you. IPODs or something similar is your best friend.

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Remember the big exam I mentioned way back when?

I PASSED!!!

:balloons:

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Specializes in Operating Room.
Remember the big exam I mentioned way back when?

I PASSED!!!

:balloons:

Congrats!!! :)

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Specializes in ICU.

My advice would be to go into the classroom as late as possible. People in my school spread rumors at an outrageous rate! It makes me so angry:angryfire . And what makes me really mad is the fact that they try to sound SOOO convincing about what they say, but the truth is they HEARD it from someone else who don't know diddly. I don't listen to anything anyone says at school. The semester I am in is supposed to be so hard. A lot of people ahead of me were giving me all these warnings about the instructors and the course work. I was so nervous about getting through the semester:uhoh3: . Now that I have 3 weeks left it's not that bad. I put in the work and I am getting good results. People have their own perceptions about how things are, so I would say to overlook it. Always check with the original source. :)

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Ketcia, Excellent Post. When you said "Always check with the original source" - you said a mouthful. That's it in a nutshell... I'm an older student -I still remember all too well the gossip that went on during jr. high and high school, but, I just couldn't imagine the same kind of childish stuff going on in Nursing School, but boy was I surprised.

Nursing Programs are so incredibly difficult to get through, I just couldn't believe people could find the time to gossip about their fellow classmates, Instructors, Nurses they work with during clinicals and even patients - but they do - it's unbelievable. We have a certain group of "gossip mongers" in my class that can manage to find flaws in even the nicest of people. I've come to the conclusion that these are the type of people that will act this way no matter what situation they are in, so I try to stay as far away from them as possible. Unfortunately - if you try to "keep to yourself" to avoid being sucked into one of their conversations where they are bashing a classmate or Instructor - this also upsets them and you will be their next target!!!

Last year in our first semester - a classmate told me to beware of a certain Instructor who had given her an unsatisfactory in clinicals and was "out to get us all" - she had me scared to death. This Instructor turned out to be fantastic to work with and I later learned that my "former" classmate really was given an unsatisfactory by this Instructor - but it wasn't because she was out to get her, the Instructor found her sitting on a bed in an empty room, watching TV - instead of caring for her patient - so she should have been given a "U"... As "Ketcia" said - consider the source!!! Sue

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