Horrible Professor!

Nursing Students Pre-Nursing

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I was curious if anyone else has dealt with this and what you did about it?

I just finished my Chem pre-req with the worst and hardest teacher. He never actually "taught" anything. Just threw a bunch of notes on the board. Things we did not learn and that were not part of our lectures, labs etc consistently showed up on our exams.

More than half of my class actually signed a petition to the Dean of Sciences at my school (and it would have been more of the class had I had enough time to talk to more people). And the only response we got was that she would discuss it with him.

It is incredibly frustrating that I studied my butt off and I had an A- the whole semester until the last two tests where more questions showed up that were not part of our curriculum, equalling an entire grade difference. I'm pretty sure I will end with a B or B+ average for the class. Which I would happily accept if it was my fault for not knowing the material.

But given that my entire class of 30 students all got the same 3 questions wrong on the last test, and we all met after our final and agreed on several questions on that test that we never saw before... that has to say more about the teacher, not us, I would think.

We've all gone to tutoring, and honestly that is the only way I have the grades I do. But there really is no way to prepare for a test that consistently has trick and new questions that were not part of the curriculum on it.

My program does accept a B, but it's the principle. Anyone ever have something like this happen to them?

Specializes in LTC.
Also note integral calculs is a pre req to bio chem...I assume you all took calc I and calc II as well?[/quote']

Please be nice, just as interpersonal skills do not seem to come easily to you, perhaps college level science did not come easily to the OP. Just as you seem to need an instructor to teach you to behave in a tactful manner, perhaps the OP deserved a professor who clearly instructed OChem. End of story really.

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Also note integral calculs is a pre req to bio chem...I assume you all took calc I and calc II as well?[/quote']

Some of us took upto calc 3. Anything else?

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Some of us took upto calc 3. Anything else?

That's just fine and dandy, point being it isn't a nursing school pre req. So it would be pointless to do so if ones intention is nursing school. Unless one plainly enjoyed the intellectual challenge, but if that's the case, get a STEM degree.

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That's just fine and dandy, point being it isn't a nursing school pre req. So it would be pointless to do so if ones intention is nursing school. Unless one plainly enjoyed the intellectual challenge, but if that's the case, get a STEM degree.

Obviously, I have Bachelors degree in Biology hence why I have the additional courses. If someone was actually interested in math or enjoyed calculus maybe that's why they took the additional course.

Not all of us strictly adhere to just taking prerequisites.

Actually if you look around this forum a lot of people have their degrees in a different field than nursing. Some have psychology, English, business, even engineering degrees.

Be nice.

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FYI: The class was Chemistry of Life, which consisted of three portions, Gen Chem, O-Chem, & Bio-Chem. This is listed as a pre-req for the nursing program I am working to get into. I only needed Algebra prior to taking this class.

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Specializes in Pediatric Critical Care.
I understand this frustration and that education is not free but technically, you are being taught. You may not like the way you are being taught or that your instructor doesn't cover everything in the book but that's part of. It wasn't like that in high school, it sure isn't going to be like that in college.

Most of my undergrad seemed to be power points filled with text verbatim from the textbook, and the teacher reading the slides to us for the length of class. I could do that on my own. I honestly don't feel like I paid for an education. I paid for a degree.

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Specializes in Pediatric Critical Care.
Also note, integral calculs is a pre req to bio chem...I assume you all took calc I and calc II as well?

Yes...yes I did take calc 1&2....and no they weren't required for my program. But not all programs are the same....so why would anyone assume that everyone's prerequisites were the same as theirs?

Are you a nurse, by the way?

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Most of my undergrad seemed to be power points filled with text verbatim from the textbook, and the teacher reading the slides to us for the length of class. I could do that on my own. I honestly don't feel like I paid for an education. I paid for a degree.

Same here....I don't remember much from my undergrad courses.

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Specializes in LTC.

Yes...yes I did take calc 1&2....and no they weren't required for my program. But not all programs are the same....so why would anyone assume that everyone's prerequisites were the same as theirs?

Are you a nurse, by the way?

I read some of this posters other posters, and no they are not. They also seem to have a serious beef with nursing as a profession. A lot of blah blah blah it's a vocational degree not a real science ect.

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I read some of this posters other posters, and no they are not. They also seem to have a serious beef with nursing as a profession. A lot of blah blah blah it's a vocational degree not a real science ect.

I don't think it's a beef, it's more of a superiority complex from what I've seen.

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Yes...yes I did take calc 1&2....and no they weren't required for my program. But not all programs are the same....so why would anyone assume that everyone's prerequisites were the same as theirs?

Are you a nurse, by the way?

So what is your point? And no I'm not a nurse.

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I don't think it's a beef, it's more of a superiority complex from what I've seen.

It is what it is. I don't have anything against nursing. I've stated on other threads and ill state it again; my mother is a nurse, my sister is a nurse, and her husband is a nurse. My ex was a nurse, my gf's aunt is a nurse and I have many friends who are nurses. Point being, if you think I am on her to troll or flame about nursing you are wrong, but if I find something that is incorrect I will correct it just like anyone else would. The difference is that I don't have a nursing background, so my responses seem bias (and sometimes they are, but I do my best to remain objective).

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