do you ever just wanna yell..."Would you SHUT UP already???"

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I guess there's always gotta be one in every class, you know they type that can't resist saying..."well I work at such-n-such place and we do it this way...." ON EVERY TOPIC!!! or ask 20 questions where all the answers from the teacher are "yes" because it's some elementary ? that they are just asking to let everyone know they already know something. Im gonna start bringing water balloons to class and throwing 'em at people who can't SHUT UP!!! :chuckle

oh and btw....can y'all quit tappin and clickin your pens!!!!! :angthts:

feel free to add your frustrations, and what should be done with these people!

I have also had this experience and felt the same way. It would be different if they actually had something to contribute but most of the time it seems they are just trying to show off....but in my experience these "know it alls" usually aren't there in the end because of their inability to zip it and listen to the instructor.:twocents:

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I recently started working in a hospital (first time) as an NA, I have never experienced such rude behavior as some of these nurses and NA's dish out. It has made me rethink wanting to become a nurse, but then again nurses can do more than work in a hospital, so I'm going on. But some of these folks are brutal, I don't understand why?

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I recently started working in a hospital (first time) as an NA, I have never experienced such rude behavior as some of these nurses and NA's dish out. It has made me rethink wanting to become a nurse, but then again nurses can do more than work in a hospital, so I'm going on. But some of these folks are brutal, I don't understand why?

Unfortunately, some people just have very self-serving attitudes. They think they are just the end-all, be-all to every subject. Smile and nod! Not everyone is like this, so when you find people that have similar personalities as you, surround yourself with them and it will take a huge amount of stress off your shoulders.

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Specializes in Extended Care, Med/Surg , Palliative,.
as an ex PARAMEDIC(Associate degree with OVER 200 hours more than an ADN RN..)and as a nursing student(returning after 20 yrs) I feel I am able to reply......most Nursing homes I have been to regard us (EMT'Ps) as below CRNA's even thouth I have had MORE TRAINING THAN THEY HAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!........I am DISGUSTED with the treatmement that ENT/EMTP rcv from maily LVN/LPN(whom are REALLY INFERIOR to us training wise)........this is coming from a LPN STUDENT/ASD(assocaite in Paramedicine)

Whoa! We are just venting about classroom issues really. And the LTC facility I work at treats our paramedics like Gods. I am an LPN, and I have never seen a paramedic treated poorly, we are usually so happy to see them. Why would you go into nursing if you are so filled with hatred towards the profession?

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Thanks so much for you encouragement, I'm getting ready to go in to work and have "dreaded it all morning". I love love love the patients, but some (not all) of my coworkers are just difficult and seem to love to make you feel like you are nothing.

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We have people in class that constantly talk while the lecture is going on. They don't even notice when the instructor stops talking until one of the people in the front row scream behind them to be quiet! People also like to talk to me and still don't get the hint that I won't even turn my head to listen to them or talk back! It drives me crazy! I've even changed seats and they follow me. :nono:. Helloooooo, get the hint???

I have tried to reward myself for not blowing up on these people (something that is just my personality to do) by renting a movie every Friday night. When someone starts this rude behavior and I want to vent on them, I just think about my movie that is sitting at home waiting for me and start to relax. I also count the number of weeks I have left in that particular class and can check off every Friday as well. It helps me to stay motivated and not get distracted by certain people. I am there to get myself ahead after all!!!

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I've kind of skimmed this thread, so excuse me if I have missed something, repeated something, etc. Also, please excuse the fact that this is going to be a long post. I need to get this out.

I'm in my last semester of an ADN program. For the three previous semesters, I have listened to one student talk several times each class period about her personal life, as if every detail relates to the lecture. I have listened to another act as a know it all. I have listened to the girls in the back talk incessantly.

Now, I have had my differences with these kids. Last year, I was accused of stepping on someone's toes during a clinical (I didn't) and of turning in a group of girls for a HIPAA violation (I didn't). These girls publicly yelled at me and spread the rumors that I had gotten them in trouble. I took it all in stride and just ignored it. But it left me with no friends - or associates even - in the program.

Yesterday, for the first time in this program, I raised my hand and asked a question. The responces I received WHILE the professor was answering my question included "SHUT UP," "Was that really a question," "Eccchah," and "You really don't get this?"

I want to tell them all to shut up, but at the same time, I was the girl that was told to shut up.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, ICU.

I think what annoys me most are nurses who treat nursing students like garbage. Yesterday, one of my patients had a rapid response that I called when he past out while ambulating with physical therapy and myself. I told PT that he had been reporting dizziness all day, I made the right call to put in a rapid response, but while I'm in there, the charge nurse is standing there doing absolutely nothing. I'm all the way at the back of the room listening in and trying to get a good learning experience. And she turns to me and says, "Can you go to the clean utility and get...OH NEVERMIND, I'LL DO IT MYSELF!!" I felt like saying, "Well, it would HELP if you had told me what you wanted, instead of yelling at me!" Turns out, she wanted oxygen tubing with a nasal cannula which someone else had already brought and was in the process of hooking up. She comes back with it and says "You could have told me someone else already had it!" Duh, woman! I didn't even know what you wanted!!! I just smile and say "I'm sorry." all the time like a jack*ss.

I think people like that make it easier for me to overlook my fellow students' little foibles.

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Well, the thread is wandering a little out of the classroom and into the clinic, but I want to say thank you to many of the responders who told of their classroom experiences, especially those who mentioned useful responses from the instructor.

I am an instructor of A&P at the pre-nursing level. Most of my students plan to apply to nursing schools. If you look at my average anatomy class, probably half of them have no business going into nursing, but they haven't discovered that yet. It's a very inexperienced and occasionally immature group. And believe me, student questions are welcome, but the student who never stops asking questions is a real pain.

I had one student (I'll call her CC for Chatty Cathy) a few semesters ago who started asking questions as soon as I walked in the room, before I was even to the front, and at breaks would follow me to the rest room and try to ask questions while I was using the facilities. I had another student in that class, a wonderful woman (WW) who is now well on her way to being a respiratory therapist, who finally had it out with the first student. WW intercepted CC as the latter tried to follow me to the bathroom and told her in no uncertain terms that she was being too demanding of my time, and that everyone was fed up with her. WW said things that I would lose my job for saying to a student, and ya just gotta love her for it!

I've seen them all. The students who already know everything because they're a registered massage therapist or a personal trainer or they had a sister who knew a guy whose mother had leukemia. The students who skip all the laboratory write ups because they plan to "make it up" on extra credit points (it doesn't work that way!). The students who talk incessantly during lecture. The students who "lawyer" every missed point or complain that I'm giving no credit for a late assignment, even though I drop almost 1/3 of the lowest grades on homework!

It's the gems that make teaching worthwhile. If you're a good student who respects the instructor, works to master the material, worries about your patients (but not too much), and finds the little bits of joy that exist in learning and being a health professional, please know that the instructors respect you in return, and we wish the best for you in your career.

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Anatomatrix - Because I am a student who is TERRIFIED (and after Tuesday, even more so) of speaking in class, I talk to the professors after class when the lecture is done. How do instructors feel about students like me?

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Usually, that's the best time, apart from any published office hours. But it's a good idea to gauge your instructor's mood. Do they seem distracted? Are their eyes flicking to the door leading outside? Are they walking quickly away, forcing you to run and ask your question at the same time? Sometimes after class (especially a long one) the instructor just needs to sit down and have a drink of water or coffee for a moment. Sometimes they have another class scheduled in 15 minutes.

One way to approach this is to ask after class, "When can we meet to discuss this?" If it's something small, I usually say, "Well, now's okay." If it's more involved, I might say, "How about meeting me in my office in 15 minutes, does that work?" Or I might ask if they can make my next office hour session. Some students came up to me 5 minutes before the end of open lab last weekend and asked if I would "introduce" the prosected cadaver to them (they won't start dissecting their assigned cadavers for another week or so). I asked them to wait until the next open lab, or to ask their instructor during regular lab. It was just too late to get started on cadavers.

Anyway, ask, and be flexible, and remember that instructors are humans and get tired and busy too! :sleep:

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There was a girl in my class last year that asked the most ridiculous questions ever. We were talking about calculating I&O and she spits out,

"Well, what if a person eats like a whole case of clementines, would you count that?" Teacher: that's not very likely. student: yeah, but, what if?

She was always asking what if questions like that...all year long.

Sorry if you read this forum, but that was a really dumb question:rolleyes:

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