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!)....
I know this has been said but I hate it when this one girl has to speak up with EVERY SINGLE disease we go over in class and either she has it or her family member does!!!
Another one starts off every sentence "The way we do it in the OR is..."
Or how about random stupid stories? One girl talked about how she used to call her sister a name....who cares?? Does it go with the lecture? no. I think some people like to hear themselves talk.
I am a tutor in the skills lab. I hate it when people expect to pass their check-offs when they only practice day of or day before!!! OR they try to debate me on things that I already know. One instructor overheard me arguing with another student who couldn't understand why I told her she contaminated her gloves b/c she touched her breasts ("well, my shirt is clean"). The teach told her "She knows more. Don't debate everything she says!" LOL
I gotta finish this up with know-it-alls. The ones that try to make the prof. look stupid by asking these looooooooong drawn out questions!
My program was a 2 year RN program, but you could take 8 weeks in the summer and get your LPN. Most of our class did this and some of them also got jobs. There was this one girl who would bring thigs up during lecture about the floor that she worked on and acted as if she knew so much more than everyone else. Hellooooo, other people in the class work on the same floor as you do. Also, the most annoying thing, when the recruiters came around she would ask them questions about getting hired into OR or ICU because she was "an LPN with experience", she had only been working for 8 months.
My biggest pet peeve in nursing school and at work are the nurses with the competitive "know it all" attitude. "I did this, and this and I'm so great, blah blah blah". Can it, already.
We have an EMT in one of my classes who talks about her day (as if the rescue squad would just DIE without her), but what gripes me is she does NOT refer to anyone as people, NO, she'll say "the MI, the asthma attack, the gunshot wound", and certainly not "the person who had an MI". Just chaps me. It chaps me to here nurses refer to a pt. by their diagnosis, instead of as a person.
We have an EMT in one of my classes who talks about her day (as if the rescue squad would just DIE without her), but what gripes me is she does NOT refer to anyone as people, NO, she'll say "the MI, the asthma attack, the gunshot wound", and certainly not "the person who had an MI". Just chaps me. It chaps me to here nurses refer to a pt. by their diagnosis, instead of as a person.
First off, I LOVE THIS THREAD! I thought I was the only one that was truly annoyed with my classmates but they seem to be nationwide :)
Now, response to this post. We have an EMT guy in my class too and he is just like this girl you're talking about! Our first day of class he said to everyone and the teacher, "Coming from being an EMT, I am really afraid that I am going to be really bored in nursing school because I already know pretty much all of this stuff." That made me soooo mad :angryfire Then he goes and gets a 90 on his first test and comes out saying, " not too bad for never opening the book" I swear I want to pop him in the mouth. I hope the nursing process tears his little booty to shreds!!! Sure, he knows medical terms and what-not but I don't think he fully comprehends the process just from his experience as an EMT. Just like nurses don't fully comprehend being an EMT without the education. I reallllly hope he bombs that test :roll
Thanks for listening!
Oh and I hate 30 minute life references that someone always has. ARGH! We only have X amount of time for class so PLEASE BE QUIET!
Do these people not realize what annoying thing they're doing????????? I don't get it........
or those students who just dont get it...and i mean seriously dont get it...not students who need help or have questions but we have a girl who actually made this comment when she found out that her patient's (we are doing peds now) mother had 3 children (all biological) with either severe DD or MRDD...she says about the mother..."3 kids that are retarted? She must be crazy or something..."
We have an EMT guy in my class too and he is just like this girl you're talking about! Our first day of class he said to everyone and the teacher, "Coming from being an EMT, I am really afraid that I am going to be really bored in nursing school because I already know pretty much all of this stuff." That made me soooo mad :angryfire Then he goes and gets a 90 on his first test and comes out saying, " not too bad for never opening the book" I swear I want to pop him in the mouth. I hope the nursing process tears his little booty to shreds!!! Sure, he knows medical terms and what-not but I don't think he fully comprehends the process just from his experience as an EMT. Just like nurses don't fully comprehend being an EMT without the education. I reallllly hope he bombs that test :roll
Your EMT (I was an EMT at one time) DOES know the basics. It is part of his training. 1st quarter is boring to me as well - I have nothing less than a 95 in any of my classes (fundamentals, pharma, nutrition) and have yet to open a book. However, I have already bought the books for NEXT quarter..... I WILL have to carefully apply myself because there are things that will be presented then that I have never even heard of before!
Don't sweat it.... your EMT will either have to get with it like the rest of you all, or he'll flunk out and go back to the ambulance. Don't be ill because his training and experience is more advanced (right now) than yours is. The playing field will level out soon enough, and either he'll make it or he won't.
Your EMT (I was an EMT at one time) DOES know the basics. It is part of his training. 1st quarter is boring to me as well - I have nothing less than a 95 in any of my classes (fundamentals, pharma, nutrition) and have yet to open a book. However, I have already bought the books for NEXT quarter..... I WILL have to carefully apply myself because there are things that will be presented then that I have never even heard of before!
Don't sweat it.... your EMT will either have to get with it like the rest of you all, or he'll flunk out and go back to the ambulance. Don't be ill because his training and experience is more advanced (right now) than yours is. The playing field will level out soon enough, and either he'll make it or he won't.
He is very helpful to have around but I just don't like the snotty attitude that he's above all. That's my only beef....if nursing school was so boring and easy (like he claims) then why is the competition so high and so many people flop out before the 2 years are over? That's what I really want to ask him.
He is very helpful to have around but I just don't like the snotty attitude that he's above all. That's my only beef....if nursing school was so boring and easy (like he claims) then why is the competition so high and so many people flop out before the 2 years are over? That's what I really want to ask him.
So.... ask him?
It is boring and easy to him (and me) right now because we are experienced in the things you are currently learning for the first time. The worm WILL turn.... I guar-rone-tee it!
The smug, snotty attitude (I try to avoid that myself by keeping my bleeping mouth shut ) will be slapped right off of him when he hit's med/surg and sees stuff that an EMT never would in a million years.
There is a VAST chasm between emergency (scoop and scoot; stabilize and transport) medicine and nursing. However, the very basics are the same.
Look at it this way: you'll get to be smug and snotty with him later, when reality hits and your superior study habits take precidence over previous training.
My pet peeve in nursing school is group work. I HATE group work. I love my fellow classmates but it seems like whenever I get into a group someone doesn't pull their weight, someone can't make the meetings bc they are too busy...or our academic styles just don't mesh. Did I mention I despise group work???
The irony of being constantly reminded of the importance of critical thinking to nursing practice while the very teacher of such discipline completely fails to use the skill with respect to their own lesson plans makes me want to have a "code brown" right in the middle of the classroom.
Just pick an assignment. How long has that particular tool been used in your institution? The longer it's been on the books, the more likely it has accumulated "tweaks" by professors along the way. At each step, something gets added to it that a particular professor felt was important to the learning process. The longer it goes on, the more little things get added. All the while, nobody ever stops to remove any of the tweaks that really aren't relevant anymore. In the end, the assignment ends up so large and unwieldy that it has little relevance to any reality in the field.
Why can't the professors use the "nursing process" that they so often quote? If they'd just stop, assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate what a lesson is supposed to be doing in the context of the current nursing environment, the value of these lessons would rise exponentially. The old crud would get jettisoned, the process would be streamlined, and we'd all have more time to spend on the new lessons needed to keep pace with a constantly evolving environment. Gee, I think that way back when I was taking management classes, they called that sort of thing "TQM."
Wouldn't it be wild if academia actually applied these little theories to their own departments? Wouldn't that change some of these "traditional" teaching tools from being an irritation that we pass down like some form of perverse hazing into real value added education?
The irony of being constantly reminded of the importance of critical thinking to nursing practice while the very teacher of such discipline completely fails to use the skill with respect to their own lesson plans makes me want to have a "code brown" right in the middle of the classroom.
Just pick an assignment. How long has that particular tool been used in your institution? The longer it's been on the books, the more likely it has accumulated "tweaks" by professors along the way. At each step, something gets added to it that a particular professor felt was important to the learning process. The longer it goes on, the more little things get added. All the while, nobody ever stops to remove any of the tweaks that really aren't relevant anymore. In the end, the assignment ends up so large and unwieldy that it has little relevance to any reality in the field.
Why can't the professors use the "nursing process" that they so often quote? If they'd just stop, assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate what a lesson is supposed to be doing in the context of the current nursing environment, the value of these lessons would rise exponentially. The old crud would get jettisoned, the process would be streamlined, and we'd all have more time to spend on the new lessons needed to keep pace with a constantly evolving environment. Gee, I think that way back when I was taking management classes, they called that sort of thing "TQM."
Wouldn't it be wild if academia actually applied these little theories to their own departments? Wouldn't that change some of these "traditional" teaching tools from being an irritation that we pass down like some form of perverse hazing into real value added education?
Naaahhhhh.
There are two problems that cause this. One is that in my school we had an instructor who only taught clinicals because he didn't have his master's. He was a BAD instructor. He just sat around and chatted with the staff nurses while the students did their work, he was lazy, and he hardly ever checked anything. When I had him, there weren't enough pts on the floor so he sent another student and me to a different department. We got no orientation and then were left there. We had to hunt him down to check our meds. We got a bad review from those nurses saying we were incompetent and lazy. Well yeah, of course we were incompetent, we didn't know how to chart anything on their forms, and we seemed lazy because we had to stand around forever and wait for him to check our meds.
He got fired, but he immediately got hired at another nursing school in the area. So that's where you get your bad instructors.
Then #2, and I lost count of how many times I heard this. Nursing school teaches you how to pass boards, not how to work as a nurse. Time and time again the teacher would explain a whole long theory or procedure or whatever then say, well you will never see this in your practice, but it is still on boards so you still have to know it. That makes me so angry, that we had to spend time learning things that are never done, just for boards.
Now I will say that most of my instructors were very well organized in class and in clinical. I don't even want to mention the psych instructor who was retiring though...
Future_Nurse_Natalie
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I know this has been said but I hate it when this one girl has to speak up with EVERY SINGLE disease we go over in class and either she has it or her family member does!!!
Another one starts off every sentence "The way we do it in the OR is..."
Or how about random stupid stories? One girl talked about how she used to call her sister a name....who cares?? Does it go with the lecture? no. I think some people like to hear themselves talk.
I am a tutor in the skills lab. I hate it when people expect to pass their check-offs when they only practice day of or day before!!! OR they try to debate me on things that I already know. One instructor overheard me arguing with another student who couldn't understand why I told her she contaminated her gloves b/c she touched her breasts ("well, my shirt is clean"). The teach told her "She knows more. Don't debate everything she says!" LOL
I gotta finish this up with know-it-alls. The ones that try to make the prof. look stupid by asking these looooooooong drawn out questions!