i'm in my 4th yr of bs nursing & i will be graduating this may 2006 (woohoo!) now my thread is: i have this classmate who has been passing our nursing subjects not with high grades but not so low grades either. and several instances during our clinicals, she would be asking me or some other groupmate some questions such as: (remember she is a graduating nursing student)
a. what is a diuretic?
b. what does dyspneic/tachypneic mean?
and many instances, she has been really incompetent and uncomprehensible when giving rationales or explanations on different diseases/cases. she doesn't even know what the normal range for fasting blood sugar is!:uhoh21:
i know she shouldn't be allowed to graduate and i, for a fact, would not want to be hospitalized and be under her care (i think i will die!)...
should she be allowed to graduate? should we (me and my other groupmates) bring this up with our level head or dean or someone concerned? i mean, poor girl she's worked so hard. but goodness, poor patients if she will pass the boards eventually (she loves memorizing, w/o understanding anything!). :uhoh21:
I am an ADN student who will finish school next may. Where are the clinical instructors? If one of my class mates or myself did not know the answers to some of the simple questions she can not answer we would get a "not met" for that clinical. after about 3 or four of these we would be unsatisfactory, which means you don't pass that clinical, thus you don't pass that class. And yes I had a question similar to those in clinical, except mine was about a bata-blocker, and yes I got a not met. That was the last time I went to clinical unprepared.
I agree! our clincial instructors or any clincial instructor should pick up on that right away!
I don't see where another student can be "qualified" to judge another student's performance with such scrutiny. I try to look at things from other's perspectives, I wouldn't want to be the student that you are referring to. Would you want to be in her place? What if your classmates thought that way about you? Give her time, that's what school is for, is to learn and prepare. The ones that scare me are the ones that think they know everything. Usually they don't. I can understand your frustration, but lately I find myself living by that old motto, "if you can't find something nice to say about someone, then don't say anything at all." Good luck to you! :)
Also, if you decide to approach one of your instructors regarding her performance, you run the risk alienating your instructor. Your instructor may wonder if you have some underlying agenda. Usually, when somebody approaches me in order to relay unflattering or hurtful information about another person, the first thought that crosses my mind is, "what is this person's agenda?"
Perhaps she isn't quite as bad as you think. And maybe she is...let someone else more qualified decide.
dave :)
just agreeing with dave - let someone more qualified decide.
(I initially graduated 30 years ago and I'm still looking things up - isn't it good that she is asking questions and identifies the very things that she does not know?)
Specializes in ER, ICU, Nursing Education, LTC, and HHC.
yeah, i should... but i have a feeling she's gonna pass the local boards...maybe not the other licensure exams though...
I am wondering what are local boards? I have never heard of such a thing... we had to pass our college exams and then it was off to State boards NCLEX.
Please clarify if anyone knows of local boards?
This girl may be barely passing, but the real indicator of competency will be in NCLEX. You should not worry about her. If she is that much of a distraction or consern to you, try to avoid her.
Ok...I find this blog so interesting...why is girl so worried about another fellow student. I am in Nursing school now and there is a very annoying woman in my class who is constantly worried about what everyone is doing and what everyone's grades are..For Gods sake..MYOB:mad:
I also agree that the OP should have let the nursing instructors worry about student evaluation and retention. Now that a few years have passed, I wonder what the "problem" student as well as the OP are doing?
Wouldn't you also love to know where all the players in this mini-drama ended up? Did the OP pass her boards? Did the idiot student pass? Did they get jobs and kill anyone.....dun dun duuuuunnnnn.....
I know this is an older post and my reply is really geared towards people in general. Lets stop worrying about what everyone else is doing and worry about ourselves..so much healthier to do that...the girl would have needed to pass the nclex and if she did then God Bless her and if she didn't then only she knows that maybe Nursing is really not for her...lets worry about what is important and not about what isn't.
thats cause its a BSN and not ASN lolol just kidding!
I work in a hospital, and theres a student nurse in a BSN program that didnt know what a UA was...and she WORKED AT THE HOSPITAL having to enter it in the computer.
thats cause its a BSN and not ASN lolol just kidding!
I work in a hospital, and theres a student nurse in a BSN program that didnt know what a UA was...and she WORKED AT THE HOSPITAL having to enter it in the computer.
Cant make it up :)
I don't think that not knowing an abbreviation means that someone is lacking general knowledge or is not competent to be a nurse. Different facilities use different abbreviations, and they may not have come across that particular one during their schooling. However, if TOLD what UA stands for and they still don't know what that means, then you have a problem.
I know this is an older post and my reply is really geared towards people in general. Lets stop worrying about what everyone else is doing and worry about ourselves..so much healthier to do that...the girl would have needed to pass the nclex and if she did then God Bless her and if she didn't then only she knows that maybe Nursing is really not for her...lets worry about what is important and not about what isn't.
GrnHonu99, RN
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I agree! our clincial instructors or any clincial instructor should pick up on that right away!