Infuriating Responses To Questions

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Are any of you frustrated when your instructor answers your question with a question?

Specializes in oncology, telemetry, urology.

As students, you have a lot of information given to you to memorize. I have often found that when I give the answer, the student does not remember the information one week later. By asking questions, I am trying to help you figure it out yourself, understand what is going on, and truly understand the answer. You will remember it better. Nursing is not easy. The patients will not provide you with answers. They will give you clues and you need to figure out what is going on, as with the example given by the previous poster.

All of your accusations that the instructors don't know anything makes you sound like whining children, not the critical thinking professionals you are going to school to become.

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had a prof try this one ONCE....in lab... my lab partner walked away, and i rather forcefully dropped a disecting instrument on the table.....prof got the message and NEVER pulled that crap with us again.......when I ask a question....i HAVE thought it thru.....

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As students, you have a lot of information given to you to memorize. I have often found that when I give the answer, the student does not remember the information one week later. By asking questions, I am trying to help you figure it out yourself, understand what is going on, and truly understand the answer. You will remember it better. Nursing is not easy. The patients will not provide you with answers. They will give you clues and you need to figure out what is going on, as with the example given by the previous poster.

All of your accusations that the instructors don't know anything makes you sound like whining children, not the critical thinking professionals you are going to school to become.

Seriously. This is not elementary school, you're supposed to be learning how to THINK not be spoon fed information.

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I think it would be great if the NCLEX exam was a series of questions that we could answer with questions. I think that it would be a great way of allowing the test administrators to guess what we might know. :banghead:

I'll be sure to include this method of teaching in the implementation portion of the nursing process. When a patient asks what they should avoid eating prior to taking their medication, I will simply say "what do you think you should avoid eating?" When they reply with "I don't know because you haven't told me!" I will ask if they ever read Plato's Republic.

Just kidding :chuckle:saint:

Sorry but that is just stupid. :rolleyes: YOU are supposed to be learning how think, not the NCLEX test administrators and not the patients. Heaven forbid anyone would have to use their craniums. :eek:

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Sorry but that is just stupid. :rolleyes: YOU are supposed to be learning how think, not the NCLEX test administrators and not the patients. Heaven forbid anyone would have to use their craniums. :eek:

i hope you meant using the contents of the cranium,,,,the cranium isnt going to help you much

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i hope you meant using the contents of the cranium,,,,the cranium isnt going to help you much

Cheeky much? :chuckle

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Cheeky much? :chuckle

nah....just my critical thinking skills.....:D

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I think it's great. It's called Socratic method and it's a very effective way of teaching. How any of you read Plato's "Republic"? The entire book is a conversation of this type.

Im assuming more than anything else you just wanted to mention that you read The Republic since what we are discussing is NOT the Socratic method, not even close.

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lol. socrates, being a philospher, would certainly be interested in "what do you think" but i think that is the realm of education that that method is most appropriate

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Are any of you frustrated when your instructor answers your question with a question?

Are you frustrated when your question is answered with a question?

Do you think your instructor is frustrated with the question?

Do you answer questions with a question? Why or why not?

:devil:

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Are you frustrated when your question is answered with a question?

Do you think your instructor is frustrated with the question?

Do you answer questions with a question? Why or why not?

:devil:

Answering questions with questions can be a method of soliciting information for which the person asking the question has no way of knowing. In the case of this thread, I was simply asking a question of forum participants to share their frustrations with similar scenarios.

YOU have successfully answered my question with a question. In this case, I don't find the question infuriating as much as funny. :p

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As students, you have a lot of information given to you to memorize. I have often found that when I give the answer, the student does not remember the information one week later. By asking questions, I am trying to help you figure it out yourself, understand what is going on, and truly understand the answer. You will remember it better. Nursing is not easy. The patients will not provide you with answers. They will give you clues and you need to figure out what is going on, as with the example given by the previous poster.

All of your accusations that the instructors don't know anything makes you sound like whining children, not the critical thinking professionals you are going to school to become.

Wow, projecting much? The requirement of critical thinking is not solely owned by the profession of nursing.

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