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Ugh....I really need to memorize all my lymphatic vessels and blood vessels, but what am I doing? I'm on here piddling around reading blogs and such. GOD! I can't wait until actually being in nursing school this fall (if I get accepted). My adviser told me not to worry, but I will worry until i get the letter.....that's just the way I am. LOL

I'm just ready to do some hands on stuff instead of all memorization. My lame A and P teacher makes us memorize vocabulary words like dyspnea and otorhinolaryngology and myoclonus, for example, just for extra knowledge. This is fine but he makes us know his word for word definitions!! So stupid. He makes it so confusing to learn the way he words his stuff. He even told us in class that if we change a "the" to an "a" it would be wrong. GAAAHHH! This guy is really insane. To top it off, I already know what a bunch of these words mean from getting my medical transcription certificate, but I have to go through and memorize his stupid verbatim definitions....:mad:

Anybody else have a teacher that has some crazy thing they make their students do?

First of all 2D books with pictures in them is not the same as having 5 different models with 5 different colors and looks to them.

Secondly, nobody said that these classes were impossible.

Thirdly, why don't you talk to your teacher and see if he can write you a special essay exam since you are so "ticked off" that the exams are T/F and multiple choice.

Finally, my exams are multiple choice and essay, and I'll tell you he doesn't make it easy. A lot of the times there are 2 or 3 good answers. Our lab exams are 80 questions. No multiple, T/F, or fill in the blank, so get off your high horse and stop spoiling my rant thread.

sorry - i had to laugh - i am not on a high horse - just pointing out that your complaints are pretty unfounded...I sit in class, listening to people like yourself talking about how hard all of this is, that it's unfair, that they paid good money and then do not do well in a class, that it is too much info to actually learn, (and in some cases they cheat and then "waa, waa, waa - i have a hard life!" when they get caught, which actually does not happen often! )- sorry - i am guessing that you are younger than I am is this seems to be a younger generation thing that people expect things to be easy. The reason why the objective exams tick me off - it may prep us all for the RN exam, but it does not prep us for life as nurses - in my classes people cont' to fail the essay sections of the exam as they truely do not know the info - they cannot explain it - and that is one key part of being a nurse - being able to explain to yoru pts what is going on and why!

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T/F questions can be impossible to answer unless you know every single thing about the subject matter. This is the hardest part of our exams. A multiple choice question is much easier.

i'll give you that T/F does require more info - but having had a prof that was known for tricky multi questions we really had to know that info too - but many time the multi can be figured out easier

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sorry - i had to laugh - i am not on a high horse - just pointing out that your complaints are pretty unfounded...I sit in class, listening to people like yourself talking about how hard all of this is, that it's unfair, that they paid good money and then do not do well in a class, that it is too much info to actually learn, (and in some cases they cheat and then "waa, waa, waa - i have a hard life!" when they get caught, which actually does not happen often! )- sorry - i am guessing that you are younger than I am is this seems to be a younger generation thing that people expect things to be easy. The reason why the objective exams tick me off - it may prep us all for the RN exam, but it does not prep us for life as nurses - in my classes people cont' to fail the essay sections of the exam as they truely do not know the info - they cannot explain it - and that is one key part of being a nurse - being able to explain to yoru pts what is going on and why!

I have an idea. Why don't you start your own thread complaining about people in your class, because I am not a cheater, and I never said it was unfair to learn the information. Read my OP. You have no idea about me, and I'd suppose I'm not as young as you think I am. And yes I think you are on a high horse. This thread was meant to hear some of the crazy stuff that teachers do, not listen to you bash other students.

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Sorry that I insulted you so much. If you feel that you professor and/or your school are not up to par when it comes to models etc than bring it up to the school - you are paying the fees for a proper education and if you feel that you are not getting it than it has to be brought to the attention of the higher ups!

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well i made memorize all those little "dents" on bones ...lol

Oh yes, so pointless...

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.
Oh yes, so pointless...

Well, bones have points too: tubercles, trochanters, processes.

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Procrastination at its best here!

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Gosh, no -- I've never had a teacher that anal. My A&PI prof is pretty reasonable about definitions. Another poster on this board says that wording definitions in her own words really has helped her learn the stuff -- odd that your teacher sounds like he would mark you wrong for doing the same.

I'd just try to do what my teacher requires and hope for the best. Maybe he is trying to set an extremely high bar so you'll be outstanding among the nursing students??? I dunno... just trying to understand his motivation... because failing all of his students certainly wouldn't look good for him as a teacher.

Good luck!

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i hate when people talk sh1t about "our generation"...........lets not forget who raised it ;)

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Ugh....I really need to memorize all my lymphatic vessels and blood vessels, but what am I doing? I'm on here piddling around reading blogs and such. GOD! I can't wait until actually being in nursing school this fall (if I get accepted). My adviser told me not to worry, but I will worry until i get the letter.....that's just the way I am. LOL

I'm just ready to do some hands on stuff instead of all memorization. My lame A and P teacher makes us memorize vocabulary words like dyspnea and otorhinolaryngology and myoclonus, for example, just for extra knowledge. This is fine but he makes us know his word for word definitions!! So stupid. He makes it so confusing to learn the way he words his stuff. He even told us in class that if we change a "the" to an "a" it would be wrong. GAAAHHH! This guy is really insane. To top it off, I already know what a bunch of these words mean from getting my medical transcription certificate, but I have to go through and memorize his stupid verbatim definitions....:mad:

Anybody else have a teacher that has some crazy thing they make their students do?

I know it seems anal now.....but you're going to be very happy that you know the definitions to all those words in nursing school!

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I know it seems anal now.....but you're going to be very happy that you know the definitions to all those words in nursing school!

Oh, I don't mind learning the definitions. I just don't think we should have to know every single word in his words. We can't say for example "causing" instead of "resulting in". I already know a lot of them from medical transcription classes, but have to relearn them in his words.

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

My A&P professor says, "Call it a femur, don't all it a thigh. I don't know what a thigh is unless it's chicken and it's on a plate"

That said, a lot of this is about the development of a habit of precision and accuracy which are the building blocks of critical thinking skills and communication. Everyone needs to be able to speak the same language and know what they are talking about.

As students, we don't get to draw the lines. Like it or not, they get to tell us what to say and what to call things. We don't even have to trust their judgment, so unless they're deeply, deeply mistaken and we know it, it's our job to just shut up and soak it all in.

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