Know-it-all nursing students?

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Has anybody had to deal with know-it-all pre-nursing students?:cool: I recently got hired for a local retail job and I started talking to this girl during first day work orientation about school and I found out she wanted to be a nurse and go into the same program as me. Then, out of no where she starts coaching me on how to get into the program(that she is not even in herself) and about all the prerequisites and how and when to take them all while I am trying to make clear to her that I am fine and know what I have to do. I am not sure what I did to set her off all I was asking her were general questions like What type of nurse do you want to be when you graduate? and Are you going to be a CNA first?. What kind of ticks me off is when she starts talking about her grades and they are lower than mine! I really feel as if she was talking down to me just because I am a few years younger. I know some of the things she said sounded "helpful" but there were more things she said that I can't remember that you could tell were just down right condescending if you were there. Ugh, has anybody else had to deal with someone like this while studying to become a nurse?

It sounds like she is just trying to help you out. When I started school I made a lot of mistakes, missed opportunities and wasted money because I didnt know anyone who had done it ahead of me. I would listen to what she has to say, ask about her experiences, teachers, study guides. Friends from classes have shown me some great websites to study from...Be grateful she cares enough to share and doesn't view you as competition to be squashed.

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Heh, I had something like that happen. Had a fellow student bragging about his 90 he had made on a test and how he knew he had the highest grade in the class... I let him go on for a couple of minutes then showed him my 98... :devil:

Ha! Nice ...

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Heh, I had something like that happen. Had a fellow student bragging about his 90 he had made on a test and how he knew he had the highest grade in the class... I let him go on for a couple of minutes then showed him my 98... :devil:

this made me LOL ;)

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There must be one in every class...I know one as well! She just loved to brag about being a CNA and her ride-along experience with her local EMS and throw around medical terms she thought she knew. When it came to our first skills check-off she failed. What did she fail? PULSE. But...she's a CNA. :lol2: Lucky for me, I have several in my class. You eventually learn to roll your eyes and move on. *sigh*

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i know what you mean.. but youll have people out there make you feel a bit different about what you do and possibly guide you in the wrong direction...

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