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!)....
My biggest peeve is when two instructors give opposite explanations for something, it show up on the test and we all get it wrong, and then they tell us we misunderstood what was said.
Case in point-- NCLEX review materials are saying treat chest pain up to three times with nitro spaced 5 min apart, then call 911. In class they told us current recommendations have changed and now it is do ONE nitro and call 911 if unrelieved. Fine, we use that answer on our test and half get it right/wrong cause the book and instructors conflicted. Better yet, it showed up on our HESI test, and 1/2 got it wrong again...and we still don't know WHAT the answer is suppoed to be for NCLEX(the one that really counts!!!):angryfire
- Late for class. Our teachers lock the doors promptly on time and yet one or two manage to whine outside the door until let in with no consequences. (same people every single class) I'm a senior about to graduate and people still are late for classes, which have started at the same time for 2+ years.
- We do not take paper tests. All tests/exams are taken in a computer lab where no phones, keys, drinks, food, or book bags are allowed. So there should be no disruptive noise when leaving, yet somehow people make to make enough noise to disrupt everybody in the room.
- Classes. If the instructor is in charge of the class, I expect he/she to know the material and be able to teach it in the allotted amount of time. Keeping the class 30 mins late to finish covering your material is not right. This normally happens when teachers insist on doing 'group' activities in a very large class, thus taking huge amount of times.
- Clinicals. I expect them to be a time of learning and caring for patients. As you progress from Fundamentals up to Critical Care, I expect to see more and help out more with patient care. I don't want to sit at a desk and do nothing because the instructor doesn't have time for allowing procedures.
- Clinicals. I hate wearing white, see-through uniforms. I don't care that they make us easy to spot on the unit. We pay $150+ for 2 uniforms. Every girl in my class (50+) have had the joy of being so busy with a patient that she comes out of the room with a lovely red stain from her period and not being able to go to the bathroom. Not to mention stains do not come out of these uniforms even with the most talented washing procedures.
I'm sure I would have 'cell phone' issues too if they weren't banned. The teachers usually tell people on the first day about cell phones and the consequences if they go off during lecture. If a cell phone goes off in class, the student has to leave. For those of us with children, we are allowed to bring in a phone ONLY if it's in silent mode, no vibrating.
I am graduating May 12th, and I just have to agree with those of you who mentioned the peeve of people carrying on conversations and laughing during class. How many politically correct ways are there to tell them to SHUT UP??? I also can't stand teachers who can't teach. You know, the ones who blame the students when the shortcoming is all theirs. And -- I HATE GROUP PROJECTS. THEY STINK and will be one BIG reason I will be so glad to be done with nursing school. Nuf said.
Clinical instructors who think you should learn everything in the skills lab and don't want to actually teach you anything at the hospital or get mad if you ask questions about a procedure. Skills lab is rarely available and even if it is open mostly just other dazed and confused students there, all of us looking in a book trying to practice a skill that was shown to us exactly once with 30 other students looking on. Also, why be a clinical instructor if you never actually want to teach anything! First and second semester clinical instructors both like this and as a result I ran from procedures and missed out on opportunities. I don't learn well being treated like a kindergartener.
What a great thread, besides talking in lectures...
- Healthcare assistants who rave on how they know everything (arrrrgghhh) in practical sessions
- group work - where everyone agrees with you in the discussion but then bitches behind your back, and these people are in their late 30s & 40s! Shame on them.
- staff don't respond to emails at all.
- work is not returned until at least 2 months
- Physiology lecturers are either drunk or can't be bothered to bring the subject to the student's level, as a result, only the person with the biology degree understands.
-overheads in lectures esp diagrams are unreadable due to font size!
Okay, I don't get a chance to come to this board often... but this thread has already made me feel better after my lousy day today!! :) Thanks everyone!
My BIGGEST pet peeve is the nursing school in general!!! My school is beyond disorganized!!! There is only one faculty member I've come incontact with who is even close to being organized!! They constantly switch our class days... schedule open lab times when we're in class... schedule madatory tests when we're in clinical.... and I could go on and on!!!!!
Oh, and I love that as far as documentation and care plans go... every teacher wants something completely different!!!!!!!
WOW!, what a long thread I wish i had time to read them all. self taught! Can anybody say self taught . I dont't know where some of you go to school. but we aren't allowed to miss days. If the cell phone rings in class you are outta there. I mean i know there are emergencies, but don't miss any days ok, not allowed...take a couple days of lecture take an exam couple days of lecture an exam. self teaching, people are failing here i am watching them drop and it is so sad...no ringing phones, if it does you go thats all you leave. Our school is pretty under control.
My biggset thing is that you can only miss two clinical days, and the reason for missing isn't taken into consideration. One of me fellow students failed summer clinicals because her very last week of clinicals she rushed into emergency surgery and missed three days of clinicals. She was in the hospital and was told she failed and couldn't return, and she was pulling As and Bs. She got herself a lawyer and got back into the program. I don't blame her at all. This program isn't exactly cheap!
short story: MAJOR disorganization, 1 GOOD teacher, the ENTIRE class sued the school, including a student who called the USN (They were to due report as an officer) due to a teacher trying to fail her for not having a penlight with a 4.0 GPA.
anyway we won we all graduated and we're ALL RN's now !!!!!
I just wonder if nursing school would be the same if they weren't always hanging "mandatory" and do this or that and you're out of the program over our heads...what employers are that harsh??? Other than the military, ok?
What kind of nurses are they fostering? Robots instead of thinkers?
I just wonder if nursing school would be the same if they weren't always hanging "mandatory" and do this or that and you're out of the program over our heads...what employers are that harsh??? Other than the military, ok?
What kind of nurses are they fostering? Robots instead of thinkers?
I think it is a shame that clinical instructors have this much "power" over their students. No wonder there aren't enough nurses when students are faced with this kind of intimidation every time they step foot on a clinical site. I wish the instructors would show the kind, nurturing nurse that i know lives inside of them.
I hate gossipers. It seems like everyday someone else in my class comes up to me and says...Have you heard this about this person?? Also, Ive heard students talking about how some of the teachers in my program are discussing other students...saying things like...these are the whiners in the class..these people will make the best nurses, etc!!! Grrrrr....
Lurksalot, BSN, RN
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My biggest peeve is when two instructors give opposite explanations for something, it show up on the test and we all get it wrong, and then they tell us we misunderstood what was said.
Case in point-- NCLEX review materials are saying treat chest pain up to three times with nitro spaced 5 min apart, then call 911. In class they told us current recommendations have changed and now it is do ONE nitro and call 911 if unrelieved. Fine, we use that answer on our test and half get it right/wrong cause the book and instructors conflicted. Better yet, it showed up on our HESI test, and 1/2 got it wrong again...and we still don't know WHAT the answer is suppoed to be for NCLEX(the one that really counts!!!):angryfire