How to not be "that guy"

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I have a bit of previous medical experience and I'm halfway through my BSN program. It helps me to relate the concepts that we're leaning to stuff I already know but I feel like people think I'm just trying to show off and I don't think they realise that I don't know this stuff any better than I do. I feel like I can't talk about cool stuff I saw at work or share awesome clinical stories like the other students because it'll be taken the wrong way. I really don't want to be that guy, any advice?

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Specializes in Emergency.

We had a student in our cohort who had been a CNA for many, many years and so had plenty of medical experience. Lets just say he kept rehashing the fact that he was a CNA. I think as long as you word your phrases carefully that it does not come across arrogant is fine. But, who cares, really? You're there to learn and if a teacher wants to know what you did in clinical, express it. :)

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

Sorry, but I am a dyed-in-the-wool logophile.... I'm aware that is is frequently annoying but I'm compelled to respond. Medicine is not an industry, it is a professional discipline as defined by specific scopes of practice. The only people who practice "medicine" are physicians. The rest of us work in the healthcare industry. Nurses = nursing. Physicians = medicine. Therapists = therapy, etc.

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My previous experience was not with nursing

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