I'm sorry I'm going to get flamed for posting this..but I just have to vent. I start my BSN program in a little over a week and we had orientation a few days ago. (yipee) Our first semester consists of A&P I, Chem, Ethics all the usual pre-reqs. We received our book list about 1 month ago.
The subject came up of who got their books already..of course I say that I did and as I look around there are 20 other students who DID NOT get their books. Now I just may be being a little bit harsh..but I just want to know if people realize that school starts in less than a week? Now I am not flaming at them if they had financial reasons for not getting their books--I know what its like to sit there and wait and wait for a loan to come through..these people had NO CLUE how to find the booklist online. Actually had the audacity to ask.."do you really think we'll need them the first day?" Somehow I find it extremely hard to beleive that any A&P teacher is going to hand you a syllabus on the first day with NOTHING to be done for the next class. Somehow I find it really hard to understand how a BSN nursing student actually asked "What's A&P?"
I was just wondering if anybody else found people in their classes to be completely clueless as to the profession that they are going into. I feel like nobody even researched..almost like they chose a profession out of a hat and decided to go with it. But, I really don't get it..not even a little. I've been flipping through my books for 3 weeks trying to get the basic concepts so that when the professor started to talk I would have a clue. Plus I would not want to be "unprepared" on my first day.
I understand if there are good reasons why you couldn't get your books, but you aren't even aware of how/where to get them. I guess I was just disappointed because I was expecting more..I wanted to be able to study with these people..I wanted us all to be on the same boat.
But they have already verbalized that they "know who to go to" when they forget to do something or don't know how to do something..and I really don't want to be that person especially for those that are lazy and are showing no desire to participate in their own learning. I mean some were so immature they were talking about how they were never going to wear white scrubs and they were going to dye them different colors. I was like..:smackingf I hope that we can grow up a little before we start clinicals next Fall.
Okay now my reason for this post MY QUESTION: did you watch classmates grow from this to professionals or did they walk out of school the same way they came in?
