Infuriating Responses To Questions

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

Specializes in Burn, Ortho, Trauma.
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.

I just wanted to share that during my previous degree program, never was my question answered with a question as it is done now in Nursing. Nor was I told 'use my critical thinking skills." I was shown how to work it out or we looked up the answer together. The professor and student were a learning team. Not like it is in nursing where it is us vs them. And yes, I graduated. I have a BA.

I can understand and maybe even applaud the question/question behavior when it is something dumb, especially if the professor gave the information 3 seconds earlier and the person clearly wasn't paying attention.

However, I am 30-x yrs old. I have my own lifetime of experience I am bringing to the table. If I am asking you a question, I have looked it up in more than 1 place and also discussed it with my peers. There is no need to show me your superior intellect or whatever it is you are doing by answering with a question. I ask you to respect my time and effort AND GIVE ME A STRAIGHT ANSWER so that I may move on.

and "Me,SN"- I wish I was only paying $300/credit.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, ICU.
And the ignorant post of the day goes to you!

It would be impossible for you to be more wrong and misinformed on how teachers are paid.

Wow. I'm glad YOU are not an instructor...especially MY instructor, because it's just SOOOO professional to talk that way to anyone. I think you take my award the same moment you proclaim to give it to me.

Let me rephrase: AT MY SCHOOL professors seem to forget that we pay them. NOW, am I generalizing? I don't know all professors, I only know the ones at my school and they are recycled. There are 4 of them and I have them in class in 2 different quarters (not consecutively)...so I know them WELL.

If you ARE an instructor, and you are not guilty of lazy responses to legitimate questions, you are not the type of instructor anyone is talking about. If you are an instructor guilty of dishing out such responses, take this as a chance to improve your teaching techniques to further populate the field with new recruits who understand how to function in the nursing role. :wink2:

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Specializes in Med/Surg, ICU.

One other thing! I have a particular instructor who never fails to remind the whole class what he earns. I assure you all, it's more than 50K. He teaches in more than 2 quarters (4 quarters to be exact). Who can put up with a whole year of reading directly from powerpoints, being directed back to a textbook (still not finding the answers), and being told that you're paying him only to have him do things to torture the class (including telling everyone he's going to have a pop quiz, following it through all the way to getting us to the computer lab and logging us all in, everyone SWEATING because they hadn't studied because the test wasn't until such and such date--only to say "Haha! I didn't have a real quiz, I just wanted to scare y'all.") WHO COULD PUT UP WITH ALL OF THAT AND NOT COME AWAY WITH EVEN A LITTLE CYNICISM?!

If you only think you can, I say "I doubt it". If you have done it and know you can, what can I say? You're a saint.

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Education.

I think you may have me confused with bicster. I am an instructor and did not make the comment about your post winning and award. I was the one who posted hoping people would stop making comments such as that to others and attempting to explain an average instructor salary.

As far as I know, bicster has never mentioned being an instructor.

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I think you may have me confused with bicster. I am an instructor and did not make the comment about your post winning and award. I was the one who posted hoping people would stop making comments such as that to others and attempting to explain an average instructor salary.

As far as I know, bicster has never mentioned being an instructor.

I apologize if you were caught in the crossfire.

No I am not an instructor. I just had to comment (or quip) on how she believes teachers are paid.

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Education.

No problem, just wanted to clarify.

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No, actually it's not. You're reading too much into the question. Maybe in the instances that YOU have experienced, this may be the case. But isn't it possible that in my question, it wasn't clinical, and simply administrative stuff?

Couldn't you give some of us the benefit of the doubt that we know the difference between inquiry and obfuscation?

Its funny that everybody who disagrees with you seems to be "reading to much into the question"... it could just be that they disagree with you.

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I find that whne a student blames a teacher for anything, whether it's a poor grade or they didn't learn, that it is usually an excuse.

There is only one person in there responsible for your education and it's you. There are other teachers you can ask, there are nurses everywhere in this country. There is even allnurses. :)

No matter if you have a good or bad teacher, the responsibility is yours alone.

Getting frustrated, angry, insulting or anything else is just a waste of your time and money...

:twocents:

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Its funny that everybody who disagrees with you seems to be "reading to much into the question"... it could just be that they disagree with you.

How do you think the question should be stated?

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Specializes in DD, HHC, Med Surg, PCU, Resource.

It doesn't usually bug me when an instructor answers a question with a question. But, there are times when I don't really think it's necessary. Sometimes, a simple answer will suffice. If the instructor has the insight that I might be on the right track and lead me, that doesn't bug. But, when they see I'm totally lost, give me a break already!

I have an instructor right now that is driving me crazy with her teaching style, or lack thereof.

She is constantly asking us to tell her what it says it the textbook as she lectures, because she doesn't remember the facts. She constantly makes excuses that this is not her field of expertise. Then tells us we need to come prepared for class. She contradicts herself in every other sentence. I'm just grinning and bearing it. I have found in classes like these, it is best just to self-teach. I'm counting the weeks down until this semester is over, and it is only because of this class. Luckily she is a micro teacher and not my nursing instructor, so I won't have to have her again.

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Specializes in LTC, wound care.

One suggestion.

http://www.ratemyprofessor.com

Do all those students who follow you a big huge favor and write a review so that we might be prepared for what lies ahead. Thanks.:nurse:

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One suggestion.

www.ratemyprofessor.com

Do all those students who follow you a big huge favor and write a review so that we might be prepared for what lies ahead. Thanks.:nurse:

Sorry, the professor isn't listed. Also, there's an unspoken code of secrecy. I won't criticize my instructor for the world to see. I'll talk to her after the semester has ended, or when an appropriate opportunity arises. I'll give her the benefit of the doubt that she isn't intending to be annoying.

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