The story is really long but I will shorten it, so if it seems like gaps are missing it's because there are.
My clinical instructor kicked us out of the simulation lab because we were rude to her by quoting an inside joke the other professors often repeated to us. "Sorry to bother you at work". She must have not gotten the memo that 1/ it was our second time in the sim lab, so we weren't still sure how protocol worked and 2/ must not hang out with the other professors.
Anyway, she kicked us out, chewed us out for being unprofessional and then made us sit in time out while the other group of students got to finish working and practicing with the sim person. One of the girls started crying and I just thought that the professor could have handled it differently. Now, I don't give a horse's tail about being yelled at, but I feel like my time was wasted just because one professor doesn't know how to handle nervous and giggly block 1 students. Personally, I know jack shizz about working in a hospital so, instead of being yelled at, and put in time out, she could have run in there told us we were being uprofessional and made us start over. That would have been a useful pain in the butt, and less traumatizing for the others.
Phew. Anyway, I'm not really looking for advice or anything, but just wanted to share this funny/ridic story to get it off my chest. thanks for listening!! :)))
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I guess no harm, no foul then for you. Right? It's just sim lab and you've started hanging with one of the other nursing faculty that has a sense of humor. After all some of you are so cool you are in on "inside jokes". Such a waste of time. You and you're squad are too hip for being made to "sit in the corner". Are you kidding? A troll? Grow the heck up.
Caution — I hope like heck the other faculty isn't reinforcing this "you guys are having to sit in the corner" cause the other faculty has no humor and it was a nothing infraction. Cause damn. Boundaries are important. If there is ragging and busting by a group of students on one faculty to another and they even listen, without simply referring you folks to the dean of students or wherever it will get traction. This will end badly. Tenure and complaint due process is a big deal.
Thanks for sharing. Tales from how to succeed in nursing school always get my attention. I never attended nursing classes/school —truthfully, I knew my tolerance for certain "peers" wasting my time would be low so I just skipped the traditional route — I appreciate you reminding me that some things will never change.
You might not care to be respectful, but there is likely someone in your class/co-hort/section that is working not only have fun and to "get by", but to actually gain mastery of the material being presented. If you don't want to be present, stay home. Find something that allows you more freedom to be funny and avoid time "in the corner". There are lots of other things to study besides nursing. Having to be so serious? Ain't nobody got time for that. You don't and I'll bet the non-cool, non-funny faculty don't either.
Plus, if you don't want to focus and try to meet the faculty expectations (not suggestions) go ahead save yourself the irritation of so many like you that have to come back here and complain about how "jealous" the instructors really were of you — or — how they "failed to recognize or understand how smart or special/brilliant you are" — or — how "you are young and they are washed up/bitter/miserable/fat/slow/can't cut it" or whatever. We've heard it all before and it's everyone's fault but yours why you are not graduating/proceeding or have failed out through the program. Gee. Hint: we've heard it and while tragic it's usually a sign that nursing is not a good fit for you for whatever reason and that's totes okay.
Also, by my above point, the ones that make it out of school may actually be responsible for someone's else's life. It's important to get all the base knowledge one can in a low consequence setting. Once new clinicians enter clinical practice the next tuition is paid with patient suffering and possibly their lives. Funny stuff to you? It isn't really. That's why those 100K+ patient simulators were developed and are being refined — to mitigate those high "patient" tuition costs.
Life is simple. However, I can send you a tuition bill for this valuable info/advice if you'd like. It's okay if you don't pay till 2026. It'll take you that long to figure out what you don't know and why this was important.
I'm not even a nursing student yet and I find the behavior that you guys displayed to be intolorable, in any situation really. If I was an instructor I would have done the same thing.
The story is really long but I will shorten it, so if it seems like gaps are missing it's because there are.
My clinical instructor kicked us out of the simulation lab because we were rude to her by quoting an inside joke the other professors often repeated to us. "Sorry to bother you at work". She must have not gotten the memo that 1/ it was our second time in the sim lab, so we weren't still sure how protocol worked and 2/ must not hang out with the other professors.
Anyway, she kicked us out, chewed us out for being unprofessional and then made us sit in time out while the other group of students got to finish working and practicing with the sim person. One of the girls started crying and I just thought that the professor could have handled it differently. Now, I don't give a horse's tail about being yelled at, but I feel like my time was wasted just because one professor doesn't know how to handle nervous and giggly block 1 students. Personally, I know jack shizz about working in a hospital so, instead of being yelled at, and put in time out, she could have run in there told us we were being uprofessional and made us start over. That would have been a useful pain in the butt, and less traumatizing for the others.
Phew. Anyway, I'm not really looking for advice or anything, but just wanted to share this funny/ridic story to get it off my chest. thanks for listening!! :)))
To me, it sounds like some students were acting in an unprofessional manner and got a pretty swift kick in their rear as a correction. Please do not get me wrong about this, I most certainly want students to learn. Sim Lab is very much a part of the clinical experience. It's also where you start learning to use your "Nurse Face" when dealing with patients. There really is a time, place, and situation for working with patients and what attitude you bring to the the situation. Most of the time I tend to be a bit light-hearted, possibly congenial/jovial but I'm also always 100% serious when doing any procedure with a patient. Sometimes I'll talk with a patient while I'm doing a procedure just as a distraction technique, but the point is that the patients quickly understand that while I'm a professional, I'm also approachable and concerned about their well-being. I also tend to be much more silly when dealing with certain kids because that's also sometimes a good distraction technique while it also buys me some time to gauge how they're responding.
As a student, you don't quite have the luxury of doing this so you pretty much have to be generally serious all the time. As a patient, I want a student that's dedicated to learning. As a patient, I also want a nurse that appears to care "about" me not just "for" me. There really does come a little bit of freedom to express oneself after you have graduated and started working that you don't have when you are a student.
I agree that you should have been reprimanded for your actions, but reducing someone to tears is a bit much. It is important be practice professional behavior in all clinical settings. As I am not a nurse and have yet to reach my clinical I can't say I've had the same experience yet. I am a nervous laugher as well, so I can sympathize. Apparently, some people haven't been nervous or unprofessional at any point in their life so they can't have much compassion.
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I agree that you should have been reprimanded for your actions, but reducing someone to tears is a bit much. It is important be practice professional behavior in all clinical settings. As I am not a nurse and have yet to reach my clinical I can't say I've had the same experience yet. I am a nervous laugher as well, so I can sympathize. Apparently, some people haven't been nervous or unprofessional at any point in their life so they can't have much compassion.
I'm going to offer a different perspective on this "reducing someone to tears is a bit much" comment. Some people are easily reduced to tears at the drop of a hat or the hint of a frown. Some people cry without even that much stimulation. And the onus is always on "the bad person who made Susie cry." Perhaps instead we should think about "Susie needs to learn how to accept criticism without crying" or "Susie needs to learn that it's unprofessional to cry at work."
"Making someone cry" does not mean that the reprimand was inappropriate or inappropriately delivered. Sometimes it just means that someone ought to learn not to cry at every negative interaction. It will benefit them in the long run.
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I guess no harm, no foul then for you. Right? It's just sim lab and you've started hanging with one of the other nursing faculty that has a sense of humor. After all some of you are so cool you are in on "inside jokes". Such a waste of time. You and you're squad are too hip for being made to "sit in the corner". Are you kidding? A troll? Grow the heck up.
Caution — I hope like heck the other faculty isn't reinforcing this "you guys are having to sit in the corner" cause the other faculty has no humor and it was a nothing infraction. Cause damn. Boundaries are important. If there is ragging and busting by a group of students on one faculty to another and they even listen, without simply referring you folks to the dean of students or wherever it will get traction. This will end badly. Tenure and complaint due process is a big deal.
Thanks for sharing. Tales from how to succeed in nursing school always get my attention. I never attended nursing classes/school —truthfully, I knew my tolerance for certain "peers" wasting my time would be low so I just skipped the traditional route — I appreciate you reminding me that some things will never change.
You might not care to be respectful, but there is likely someone in your class/co-hort/section that is working not only have fun and to "get by", but to actually gain mastery of the material being presented. If you don't want to be present, stay home. Find something that allows you more freedom to be funny and avoid time "in the corner". There are lots of other things to study besides nursing. Having to be so serious? Ain't nobody got time for that. You don't and I'll bet the non-cool, non-funny faculty don't either.
Plus, if you don't want to focus and try to meet the faculty expectations (not suggestions) go ahead save yourself the irritation of so many like you that have to come back here and complain about how "jealous" the instructors really were of you — or — how they "failed to recognize or understand how smart or special/brilliant you are" — or — how "you are young and they are washed up/bitter/miserable/fat/slow/can't cut it" or whatever. We've heard it all before and it's everyone's fault but yours why you are not graduating/proceeding or have failed out through the program. Gee. Hint: we've heard it and while tragic it's usually a sign that nursing is not a good fit for you for whatever reason and that's totes okay.
Also, by my above point, the ones that make it out of school may actually be responsible for someone's else's life. It's important to get all the base knowledge one can in a low consequence setting. Once new clinicians enter clinical practice the next tuition is paid with patient suffering and possibly their lives. Funny stuff to you? It isn't really. That's why those 100K+ patient simulators were developed and are being refined — to mitigate those high "patient" tuition costs.
Life is simple. However, I can send you a tuition bill for this valuable info/advice if you'd like. It's okay if you don't pay till 2026. It'll take you that long to figure out what you don't know and why this was important.
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