The different kind of nursing students

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This might be fun. You all know the different types of nursing students you go to school with. For instance:

The guy student who has the palm pilot with all the latest programs, which he plays with for hours on end, fanny pack, scissors of varying sizes, hemostats, and all kinds of gizmos attached to his pack. Always this type wants to work in the ICU's or ER upon graduation, wants to be where the ACTION is!

There's the beauty queen, full face make up, eyes made up like a cats, always dressed to the 9's even in scrubs or that awful school smock you may have to wear, every curl neatly in place, perfect lips. Looking for that MD to replace her RN upon graduation.

The studious student. In her/his back pack are not one, not two, but at least 4 - 1500 page nursing testbooks, at least 2 tape recorders and multiple notebooks. Sits in the front row but no one really knows her/him, disappears after classes.

Who else do you know? :chuckle

Specializes in Telemetry/Med Surg.

I've got a real gem in my class. She sits several seats behind me and constantly whispers to her co-horts so I hear the instructor in front of me and this hiss hiss hiss whispering behind me. Then she has the nerve to ask the instructor about something that the instructor just covered in depth but the talkative one missed because she was so busy with her personal business.

Then we have a Mr. "I know it all'....problem is he doesn't. He just think he does. Often times he will explain something in class; mind you, interrupting the instructor to explain something and his info is wrong! Sorry, I'd much rather have my instructor explain it to me correctly. Then if someone asks the instructor a question or to clarify something his reaction is usually a deep sigh, a tsk, rolling of the eyes, or turns around to glare at the person...who could be soooo stupid???

This same person needs to blow his nose-- a lot. Especially annoying during exams where he will inhale deeply snort and swallow.

Same know-it-all was paired with me in nursing arts lab. I was doing a sterile procedure setting up my sterile field and he thought I desperately needed help and contaminated my sterile field. Yeah right...thanks for your help.

Yes, and of course I have the ones who know a disease process, knows the 2nd cousin of a friend of her husband's 3rd cousin twice removed who had this. grrrrrrr....aggravates me.

wow this has gotten long. I could go on and on!!! lol :rotfl:

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Oh gosh, I forgot about the nose blower in my class, geeezzzz, this thread is bringing back such memories. Fond memories, well, maybe not, but it sure is fun. :rotfl:

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Specializes in LTC.

We have a beauty queen (no flames please :)) who consistently strolls into lecture and exams 15-30 minutes late. She enters the front door, walking in front of the instructor, before being seated. Then she proceeds to cause so much noise getting books and notes out that no one around her can focus on the ongoing lecture. It is so amazingly frustrating when this happens consistently and the instructor never says a word about it.

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

I always love watching the instructor correct the class know-it-all. Ironically the class know-it-all knows the least.

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The new-mom student nurse-you watched in amazement as she kept plugging away through her pregnancy, feet swollen, gag reflexes intact during clinicals, she delievered the baby on Sunday and was back to lecture on Thursday, never misses a beat even though she sometimes has to prop her eyes open during class, no one minds the sour milk and baby powder smell that floats around her because she's always got a smile - she's a new mom and almost a new nurse! Lots to smile about.

That was me! I actually took a test during labor...went to the doc afterwards and was 4cm dilated. Had my baby. Back at school the next week.

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Specializes in Telemetry/Med Surg.

Forgot to mention our consistently chipper student, wanting to be everyone's friend, flips her ponytail around -- all so very very fake, believe me. Just today as we were leaving clinical after going over a pharm exam we just got our grades back on, she exclaims quite loudly, "well, i don't see what all the stress was on that test..what was everyone talking about...after all I did get an 82 and got 100 on the quiz'. :uhoh3: Since she was saying it for my and my friend's benefit who were walking in front of her, I didn't have the heart to say, geez...only an 82? I got a 92. She always wants to broadcast her grades...I never bring myself to that level. Some are really struggling and don't want to or need to hear her constantly babbling. She's not so great on clinical either. :)

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How about the person who sits behind you and crinkles wrappers because they are always eating something. I also have a girl who cracks her gum constantly. I'd just love to stick it all through her waste length hair.

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How about the person who sits behind you and crinkles wrappers because they are always eating something. I also have a girl who cracks her gum constantly. I'd just love to stick it all through her waste length hair.

I'm so sorry Jen2 that must be me sitting behind you. :imbar

I have a bad habit of popping my gum. I promise I will try to keep it down from now on. :)

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:rotfl: :rotfl: You know I am laughing because I know this situation ALL TOO

Originally Posted by studentnurse74

How about the guy who WON'T SHUT UP, every time the teacher is lecturing, he has to to make comments/ask questions, needs more detail, etc., asking about things that are irrelevant to testing material, so everyone has 10 minutes wasted from class?! :angryfire

WELL. I swear this guy was in my A&P!!

heheh well i guess this is me :) i just like to learn as much as i can and get as much out of my 1200 bucks / class as i can....

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OK I'm The Class Mom. First week of school I gathered names & contact info, typed up, & handed out an "address book" for the class... complete with thumbnail photos so we'd remember who we all were by our faces before we knew names! I also typed up & distributed the class schedule in a more user-friendly format than the faculty gave us, created a group website just for the students in our class, and uploaded about 100 bookmarks on various websites (mostly gleaned from AllNurses threads) helpful to nursing students. :chuckle

I admit to being an organized freak (to a fault, sometimes). I do this stuff for myself, so I figure I might as well share. Hey if it benefits someone else, and I'm already doing it anyway, why not! I haven't seemed to irritate anyone yet (except one gal who refuses to join the group website's email list because she "doesn't have time" for the occasional e-discussion that the rest of us share). Whenever anyone needs something, who do they come to? That's right, the Class Mom, lol. Greater than 90% chance I've got it handy, too! :rolleyes: :p

Wow, you are totally my hero! I would love to get that stuff, and would totally be willing to help the "mom", but dang, my brain just does not work that way!

the only student i just cannot stand is the 'know-it-all'! or folks who pull the teacher off subject, just to diagnose someone they know with something bizarre that they 'might' have! urgggggggghhhhhh :angryfire

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

Yeah i finally told off the class know-it-all on wednesday. I got tired of the disrespect she was showing to everyone by her rude attitude towards peopel that didn't agree with her. What a form of stress relief!

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Just b/c a girl looks good and dresses nicely, doesn't mean she's in it to marry a doctor. I think ugly girls need to get over themselves.

And so do vain ones, bootylicious.

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