Nurses Humor
Published Jul 25, 2015
Purple_roses
1,763 Posts
WellThatsOod
897 Posts
That's why when I meet my nursing buddy we grabbed on to each other and are still taking our classes together.
meanmaryjean, DNP, RN
7,899 Posts
I hate them. I've always hated them and REFUSE to assign them to my students.
Well I hope you're one of my instructors this semester! Any chance you're in Michigan?
Or Nevada LOL
adventure_rn, MSN, NP
1,593 Posts
Exactly.
The start of every group project I did in nursing school:
The end of every group project I did in nursing school:
I'm this one in the group
Yes!!! I secretly research what the rest of my group was supposed to be researching, just to make sure they did a thorough job.
This is precisely what makes nursing school group projects such a disaster.
With the typical group project (one perfectionist, a couple of slackers, one docile lacky who does what they're told) everything is in equilibrium.
With OCD Type-A nursing students, everybody thinks their work is the best and everybody is trying to rewrite everyone else's work, which drives everybody crazy. It becomes a war zone of which student's loudest, craziest crazy will win out.
At least that was my nursing school experience.
This is precisely what makes nursing school group projects such a disaster. With the typical group project (one perfectionist, a couple of slackers, one docile lacky who does what they're told) everything is in equilibrium. With OCD Type-A nursing students, everybody thinks their work is the best and everybody is trying to rewrite everyone else's work, which drives everybody crazy. It becomes a war zone of which student's loudest, craziest crazy will win out. At least that was my nursing school experience.
Actually when my group mates have a brain I work well with them and we have always done well together. Maybe it's because I become the docile lackey and didn't know it...
This is so accurate. Everyone is used to competing to be the best to even make the program--I don't think that competitive/perfectionist spirit always subsides.
As for me, I really like being in control of my school work. I love school, partly because I feel very in control: my success=the work I put in. Easy peasy. So when you throw in a group project, my grade rests in other peoples' hands, and that throws my brain a curve ball.
canigraduate
2,107 Posts
That's me, too. I've never really done a group project the right way. I take over, assign the parts, redo them all, and put the presentation together myself. Then I do the presentation, unless we're supposed to split it up. In that case, I give each person their bullet points and make them practice it in front of me until I can't make them do it any better.
I may be a control freak. Just a little.