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Because it seems that we mainly get stories from complaining students here, I thought it might be interesting to call on some of the teachers.
So professors, why don't you share some of YOUR horror stories or any other student experiences.
How are today's students? Whiners? Hard working? Overly sensitive? Just fine? Have you noticed a difference in behaviors over the past 10 years?
Please share!
Maybe necessary would have been a better word. I never said every post had to be helpful to me. I'm sorry but thinking that someone should go back to "the hair salon" the "beautiful redhead" a poor girl with a low ACT score.... let's just say if that is "how it really is" then I'm glad "Zenman" is not my instructor and leave it at that.
Maybe necessary would have been a better word. I never said every post had to be helpful to me. I'm sorry but thinking that someone should go back to "the hair salon" the "beautiful redhead" a poor girl with a low ACT score.... let's just say if that is "how it really is" then I'm glad "Zenman" is not my instructor and leave it at that.
I think that Zenman was making a point that some prospective students really have no idea what nursing is all about. Maybe they are just picking the idea of "nurse" out of thin air. And that it's bothersome to a professor to have to weed that out?
That's what I got out of it, some of it anyhow. I did get the point.
Professor's should get their vent time here too.
I'm not a prof, but a 45 year old person going into nursing as a second career. It's been "interesting", to say the least, to see how my fellow students behave in class.I had an A&P prof who announced at the start of the quarter that he would give some pop quizzes throughout the quarter for extra credit. These quizzes would be given in the first few minutes of class. It wasn't for a huge amount of points - maybe enough for 3-5% of the course total. But it would be enough to help a student on the borderline. It AMAZED me to see these "space cadets" wandering into class 10-15 minutes late, missing out on these "free" points.
Then there's the apparent need to be texting your friends while walking down the hall, eating your lunch, attending lectures,...
Then again, I look back on how I was in my first undergrad period at college (1979-1983). I'd regularly skip classes, and was only looking to pass, not excel. After a couple decades of life/work experience, that attitude has changed more than a wee bit.
My situation and experience in nursing school very much mirrors yours, CrufflerJJ. It's interesting to note that by the end of the nursing program, the slackers are gone and the former slackers who still are with us have gotten "religion" and are now as dedicated as the rest of us to the idea of studying, going the extra mile, and not missing out on those little extras (ala free points).
i love all my students. i love to see them grow academically and professionally. sure, it's challenging, and "different" being on this side of the desk.students really want to be good nurses, they work hard, sure, they grumble.....we all do!
i tell my students.....hey, i passed my boards....you have to do that now. i can give you the information, but it is up to you to learn it.
hi rj,
can i be your student?!! lol! for a lot of new ns students, the big fear is not the amount of learning or work required, but it is the fear of the instructors!! reading so many posts on here about the "instructor/professor from h**l" tends to make us a little leery of them. it is refreshing and encouraging to see posts like yours that show that you really like what you do and want to see your students succeed.
My situation and experience in nursing school very much mirrors yours, CrufflerJJ. It's interesting to note that by the end of the nursing program, the slackers are gone and the former slackers who still are with us have gotten "religion" and are now as dedicated as the rest of us to the idea of studying, going the extra mile, and not missing out on those little extras (ala free points).
My observations were actually about pre-nursing students doing their prerequisites. I'm not sure how students from traditional nursing programs would be. In my Accelerated BSN program, there are NO slackers. Yes, some of us are more driven than others, but everybody is trying to do well. What's also great is that the majority of students are very supportive of each other, with no back-stabbing.
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All great examples of how there are always two sides to every story. Now I certainly know that a few professors have issues but I think the majority are wonderful and caring.
I think that your post show that there are plenty of students who could take things out of context and twist things around to make you look like the bad guy.
I had great professors in both my ADN and BSN programs. I never saw them treat anyone poorly and never heard any student complain about them either.