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:stone I swear........I don't know if I'm just getting older or what, but it seems like in everyone of my classes for the past 2 semesters there is ONE........you know........one person who either isn't listening or belongs under that diagnosis...."to stupid to live".....

:nono: ok, I know that was so WRONG of me to say, but at 40 years old, and trying my best to bridge over to RN, I don't have time for petty BS....

Does anyone know what I mean? And I wonder, how does she pass? I mean, come on.....This one girl.......had two buddies with her.......one of them didn't make it thru......(and I DON"T wish failing on anyone)........and I thought maybe just maybe she would learn to keep her mouth shut....after all.......everyone in the class was rude to her....but.......now into the 3 weeks of school...........she is still at it.........I don't PMS so I can't blame it on that, and I DO take my hormones........but.....OMG:devil: , I feel like strangling her!

It doesn't help me any that she is young, and blonde...........OMG....:roll

Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

There's 2 for sure in mine.

Like i said in a prior thread, there's one in my class who is always wanting to copy any paper or notes that YOU took, whines that he "already knows how to do this" over and over, complains about all the instructors.

To the point of if he applies to work on the same floor i'm on now, i'll either switch shifts or transfer. This is how much i cannot stand his attitude, behavior, or approach to nursing.

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I got one also!!! She just had a baby during summer brake and already all the instructors are wishing that she just stays home with the baby! We havent started back yet, so we will see. This is one nursing student that is so dumb, she is dangerous. She has put many pts. at risk for many problems and the director wont give her the boot cause, "she is pregnant". Go figure!!!

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:chuckle :chuckle :chuckle

something else for me to look forward too????

:chuckle :chuckle :chuckle

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This reminds me of a post a long time ago, even maybe over a year ago, that was similar to this.

I think someone posted that they had a classmate who was so "un-intelligent" that during a clinical she actually didn't know that you eliminate urine and feces through two seperate orifices.

Man, I wish I could remember the specifics but I think it went something like that.

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Specializes in tele, ICU.

last semester, halfway through the first day of class, this woman walks in trailing a huge suitcase on wheels behind her. she rolls it right up to the front row and takes the middle front seat of the class. then she takes the empty desk next to her, drags it so that it's in front of her own desk and puts her feet up! the instructor had no idea what to do/say to her.

on top of that, toward the end of lecture i was busy taking notes when i hear some strange noise. i look up, and that same woman was fast asleep and snoring loudly. she kept jolting awake and then falling back asleep and snoring again. the instructor was desperately trying not to laugh. it was so absurd.

she kept up this kind of stuff through the semester.. starting up her laptop noisily in the middle of a lecture, falling asleep, snoring, coming in late, asking questions in an inappropriate way.. the list goes on. she was totally in her own little world.

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My favorite is when the fall semester rolls around and the kids are in college fresh outta high school. Some of them are still stuck in high school mode and want to talk the whole time they are in class. Had an instructor even stop class and ask them to be quite or leave. Most though just ignore them. I just want them too shutup! Some of us are here to better ourselves and we can't hear the lecture if they don't be quite!

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Yes, yes, yes and yes!

Ditto to what many have already posted! - the ignorant questions, the talking, the know-it-all who desperately wants to be the Instructor and constantly has to show everyone how much they know and asks questions that side track and confuses the entire class and have nothing to do with what we will be expected to know, etc etc etc!

And oh at several and their constant moaning and witching with a capitol B about the (very) basic math in Pharmacology!!!! "The instructor isn't TEACHING us anything but just telling us to learn this conversion table" - Well ummmm excuse me? This isn't junior high school - LEARN THE FREAKING TABLE AND SHUT UP!

Drives me crazy!

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I've got to be honest here and just say it:

I have a real problem with calling other people stupid....and saying they're too stupid to live just seems wrong. I'm a 40 year old first year RN student. Like everyone, I've had classes with people who bordered on annoying. However, I would never presume to think them stupid. I've not been given the gift of living inside their heart or mind. Whether we're in nursing school or not.....whatever we're doing in life......shouldn't we be retaining some of our humility?

My grown son once remarked aloud about how stupid this person was in one of his classes, whereupon I asked him, "At what age, exactly, did you first realize you were superior?"

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Specializes in CCRN.

Last night in Biology we discussed male reproduction, the gal behind me (in her 20's) giggled and made goofy comments through the entire lecture. One comment was " I can't believe he can teach this without cracking up!" What a wonderful and compassionate nurse she will make. Then in Chemistry we were discussing lipids, fiber and fecal matter and a 30 something student commented about how disgusting the topic was..........hello! Do these people have a clue? I guess, and hope, they are the ones that will fall by the wayside. But then again..........

Marcia

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Marcia

I am sorry to say but these are exactly the type of people that wind up making it through nursing school. The one great thing about that is, when you see one of them on the floor you think to yourself, if she made I can make it too! See there is a purpose for everyone!:)

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Originally posted by Catma63

I've got to be honest here and just say it:

I have a real problem with calling other people stupid....and saying they're too stupid to live just seems wrong. I'm a 40 year old first year RN student. Like everyone, I've had classes with people who bordered on annoying. However, I would never presume to think them stupid. I've not been given the gift of living inside their heart or mind. Whether we're in nursing school or not.....whatever we're doing in life......shouldn't we be retaining some of our humility?

My grown son once remarked aloud about how stupid this person was in one of his classes, whereupon I asked him, "At what age, exactly, did you first realize you were superior?"

omg......im happy you said this Catma.

i was reading this thread thinking "oh my..."

i think part of it... is the competition factor that seems so intrinsic to this process where there are many applicants and few seats...

I think it's difficult for some it's hard to turn that "off" once they're IN.

Maybe some find it hard to not compete and compare...

Other than openly disruptive students who can affect *our* own learning processes..why should we care what others do?

Should we be pre-occupied with what others are doing, when the program curriculum and intensity seems to weed out on its own, those not suited to the profession?

Humility is a good thing....

Equal in importance, *imo*...... is the ability to put judgements to the side...That can only makes us BETTER nurses!!

Would you want to be the patient of a nurse who judged you based on a limited number of exposures/interactions?

Just food for thought.....

(pls forgive typos, i haven't had coffee yet... )

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Geriatrics, Call Center RN.
Originally posted by Catma63

I've got to be honest here and just say it:

I have a real problem with calling other people stupid....and saying they're too stupid to live just seems wrong. I'm a 40 year old first year RN student. Like everyone, I've had classes with people who bordered on annoying. However, I would never presume to think them stupid. I've not been given the gift of living inside their heart or mind. Whether we're in nursing school or not.....whatever we're doing in life......shouldn't we be retaining some of our humility?

My grown son once remarked aloud about how stupid this person was in one of his classes, whereupon I asked him, "At what age, exactly, did you first realize you were superior?"

I have a feeling that you may change your mind, after the first test that you have to take over material you did not cover in class, because someone had to disrupt the class so long or get the instructor off subject for so long that they are unable to finish their lectures before the test. It does happen. I think that after that does happen you will feel the exact same way many of us do. Sorry if I'm offending you but, those are the facts. There have been many tests over stuff we didn't cover because someone would go to the instructor after class to get some concept down, or just generally being a pain in the you know where, by getting the instructor off the subject. Good luck in school and really hope you don't have one of these people in your class.

:)

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