What is your biggest pet peeve about being in nursing school or things that happened while you were in nursing school???
Don't you hate it when:
you study your *$$ off and still dont get an A!
when you hear nursing students say "ewww thats gross" or "it stinks in here, im gonna throw up" or "ew i cant chage a depends thats so gross" -that drives me nuts! i dont know how these students will make it in the world of nursing....
come on nursing students i know we all have something that really irks us about school (even though we all loooove it!)....
This is a great thread! I see now that I am not alone in my observations at school.
Here’s a few of my peeves.
How about the woman with the masters in biomedical engineering who is changing careers and knows EVERYTHING. I mean come on. Why are you even here then? She is also the one who complains about every minor time change or syllabus change. Many of us have kids/transportation issues. We ADAPT. This is one of the hallmarks of an effective nurse.
The LPN’s who are allowed to join the class in the 3rd out of 4 semesters. Poor folks. They have no idea what is expected of them on tests/clinicals and take quite a while to get up to speed. There should be some kind of transition class for them.
The gabby gang/ the sniflers/ the bottle opening, food crunchers/ the experts/ the cell phones/ the pen, foot taping during exams.
The immature girl who actually said in clinical procedures lab while reviewing catheterization “you mean we actually have to touch the dick? Can’t the patient just hold it up for me?” (she’s gone)
The Dean of the program who, on the first day of the program, stood before us all and asked who the paramedics in class are. I was the only one to raise my hand. She looked right at me and said, “YOU are going to have the hardest time here.”
How about the people who argue every test question they got wrong. I mean you got it wrong, learn from it.
How about the clinical instructors who always side with the staff nurses on all issues of dispute. Or the psych nurse who fills in as a med/surg clinical instructor. Lost the entire time. Whew…. That was scary.
the thing i hate the most is overweight profs who haven't like worked in a clinical setting in like ten years if ever. the are so fat they can hardly ambulate and we arre suposed to be impressed? i also have a hard time appreciating the perfect smart students who think they know every thing. forgive if i sound negative but i am already have gi tract upset over nursing school and this is only my second semester. two more to go!
How about when the instructor is teaching cardiology and has the interventions from like 5 years ago that have changed twice! I teach ACLS and when I mentioned after class that some of her treatment algorhythms were way out of date she challenged me to bring in anything printed showing.
She said that is a wealth of info and she would incorporate it for next years class!
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"The immature girl who actually said in clinical procedures lab while reviewing catheterization "you mean we actually have to touch the dick? Can't the patient just hold it up for me?" (she's gone)"
Ha ha - that is funny! I loved people like that who broke up the grind during school. They made the rest of us look good!:rotfl:
Seems like i may have offended some folks with my previous comment. Sorry! I agree that it was unkind and unnessessary. My only excuse is that i was in school all day, and short on sleep.
Pet peeves, I try to be positive in general, but I need to vent a little, and ooh I have a few:
Group projects where certain members consistently show up late, if at all, to planning sessions, do little to no prep work, and then suddenly take over the speaking part of the presentation. I can understand being occasionally late, life happens, but some people consistently author excuses throughout all 2-4 years. I'm generally too wary of rocking the boat to report problems to professors, but it still ticks me off how far certain people will go to use others.
Another peeve: Test reviews where people who very rarely attend class waste everyone's time complaining about test questions over topics that were focused on during class time, but not necessarily key points in the readings. Every review, same unfamiliar faces in attendance, same brand of argument. Our exams are expected to cover both lecture and reading topics.
Lastly, people who step outside class to smoke and leave the door propped open, leaving the smoke and the cold streaming in during lecture. I understand that smoking is an addiction, but there are also the more corteous students who take the time to walk farther away from the door or smoke only during breaks.
Whew, I think that is it. I'll try to get back to the positive . . .
I have only been a nursing student for two weeks, but my biggest pet peeve so far has been an unorganized prof. We have no idea what we're doing, and prof can't seem to figure it out either. Hope it gets better.
There's a woman in my class who is also the know-it-all. She answers questions when they're asked to the prof. She is the one who has all the "ins and outs" of which book to get. She "knows" everything.
She's a brand new nursing student like the rest of us. She swears she's the program director.
Hmm...that was mean. Sorry. She just irks me sometimes.
I am just starting the last of my pre recs and have already come across a girl that is just not fit to be a nurse. She has no empathy, no compassion and is probley one of the most horrific people I have encountered. How is it that people who hate everyone and everything are in a profession that thrives on compassion?
Lastly, people who step outside class to smoke and leave the door propped open, leaving the smoke and the cold streaming in during lecture. I understand that smoking is an addiction, but there are also the more corteous students who take the time to walk farther away from the door or smoke only during breaks.
Whew, I think that is it. I'll try to get back to the positive . . .
This would drive me nuts too! Students are allowed to smoke in the hallways of your school? I used to be a smoker (pack a day) and I never left in the middle of ANY class to smoke, even if it was a 3 hour class!
Group projects drive me nuts too...what really really drives me nuts is that I clear my ENTIRE schedule to meet with my group, im willing to meet anytime wherever..even if i have something else to do...bc to me school comes first! Everytime I work with someone on a project they have a million excuses why they cant meet...oh im visiting my boyfriend upstate...or my friend will be in town this weekend..its like come on! so I say to them, well when CAN you meet...and every single project ive had the last two semesters my partners always say....well...i really wont have time...can we just do it over the phone!?!? A group project over the phone!!!!! and all bc she was visiting her bf upstate...they all knew about the group projects for 17 weeks before!!!!! ugh!
It makes me mad that im willing to rearrange my schedule and put off things that I want to do and they arent even willing to make time! It makes me mad that they act like our project is a huge inconviencince to them!
She answers questions when they're asked to the prof. She is the one who has all the "ins and outs" of which book to get. She "knows" everything.
Sorry. She just irks me sometimes.
RNstudentBrian
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This is a great thread! I see now that I am not alone in my observations at school.
Here’s a few of my peeves.
How about the woman with the masters in biomedical engineering who is changing careers and knows EVERYTHING. I mean come on. Why are you even here then? She is also the one who complains about every minor time change or syllabus change. Many of us have kids/transportation issues. We ADAPT. This is one of the hallmarks of an effective nurse.
The LPN’s who are allowed to join the class in the 3rd out of 4 semesters. Poor folks. They have no idea what is expected of them on tests/clinicals and take quite a while to get up to speed. There should be some kind of transition class for them.
The gabby gang/ the sniflers/ the bottle opening, food crunchers/ the experts/ the cell phones/ the pen, foot taping during exams.
The immature girl who actually said in clinical procedures lab while reviewing catheterization “you mean we actually have to touch the dick? Can’t the patient just hold it up for me?” (she’s gone)
The Dean of the program who, on the first day of the program, stood before us all and asked who the paramedics in class are. I was the only one to raise my hand. She looked right at me and said, “YOU are going to have the hardest time here.”
How about the people who argue every test question they got wrong. I mean you got it wrong, learn from it.
How about the clinical instructors who always side with the staff nurses on all issues of dispute. Or the psych nurse who fills in as a med/surg clinical instructor. Lost the entire time. Whew…. That was scary.
That was very cathartic.
Thanks,
Brian
May 2006 can’t get here fast enough!