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 *$$ off and still dont get an A!
when you hear nursing students say "ewww thats gross" or "it stinks in here, im gonna throw up" or "ew i cant chage a depends thats so gross" -that drives me nuts! i dont know how these students will make it in the world of nursing....
come on nursing students i know we all have something that really irks us about school (even though we all loooove it!)....
when some nursing student was ask by their professor why they take up nursing and they answered "because it's indemand and cause my parents said so".... it's so irritating why they have to take up nursing but they don't like being a nurse or it's not what they really want.:angryfire
in our class there's this most irritating women who interrupts the lectures every 2 minutes saying in an incredibley whingey voice 'i don't understaaaaaaand'. drives me up the wall!!!!
the girl who would literally rather miss questions than be the second to finish. i always test quickly, so it became my goal, that if I was close to finishing and she was not, to finish at least one second before her. I loved to hear her sigh as i walked in to hand in my exam. but there were times i was 15 or 20 minutes to finishing and she would just smirk and make all kinds of noise as she walked out.
the girls who are in nursing just the get the lovely MRS degree. please don't take a spot from someone who WANTS to be a nurse.
The nurses at clinical sites who dont want a student and as a rsult make you their personal @$$-wiping CNA rather than teaching you something new or explaining why they do something a certain way...(my guess is they don't know)
animosity within clinical groups. listen. we are ALL nurses/nursing students. when we go into the workforce the way any one of us behaves reflects on the others. no one gets along with everyone, but can we please be adults about it?
and POWER POINT... why do we have to print so much stuff? the teacher i hate most was acutally the best, she gave us handouts taht highlighted what was important, rather than trying to tell us it's all important yada yada. well of course it's all important but we can't graduate knowing everyhting, just help us hone our skills and internal radar so we know when to investigate furthur... PLEASE
the girl who would literally rather miss questions than be the second to finish. i always test quickly, so it became my goal, that if I was close to finishing and she was not, to finish at least one second before her. I loved to hear her sigh as i walked in to hand in my exam. but there were times i was 15 or 20 minutes to finishing and she would just smirk and make all kinds of noise as she walked out.
the girls who are in nursing just the get the lovely MRS degree. please don't take a spot from someone who WANTS to be a nurse.
The nurses at clinical sites who dont want a student and as a rsult make you their personal @$$-wiping CNA rather than teaching you something new or explaining why they do something a certain way...(my guess is they don't know)
animosity within clinical groups. listen. we are ALL nurses/nursing students. when we go into the workforce the way any one of us behaves reflects on the others. no one gets along with everyone, but can we please be adults about it?
and POWER POINT... why do we have to print so much stuff? the teacher i hate most was acutally the best, she gave us handouts taht highlighted what was important, rather than trying to tell us it's all important yada yada. well of course it's all important but we can't graduate knowing everyhting, just help us hone our skills and internal radar so we know when to investigate furthur... PLEASE
I absolutely agree! I think you've hit the nail on the head here!!! :trout:
in our class there's this most irritating women who interrupts the lectures every 2 minutes saying in an incredibley whingey voice 'i don't understaaaaaaand'. drives me up the wall!!!!
We had someone like that last semester...she lasted...two weeks, I think
What bugs me about nursing school:
Careplans-because no instructor expects the same thing.
Clinical prep-I love nighttime, but staying up late when I have to get up at 5 AM is NOT my thing
Early mornings-we aren't all morning people, here It's so nice now, to have a summer class that starts at 1...I understand clinicals being in the morning so we can hear report, but can't lecture be a LITTLE later? 9 instead of 8?
Cliques. We're not in higschool anymore, right? Then why do we have cliques? Why does the group of four, still very preppy ADULTS have to be snotty to everyone else? Why am I one of the few people who will talk to everyone, even if I do have my own few close friends?
And, while I LOVE clinicals, LOVED having patients, loved giving meds, loved doing physical assesments, etc. (first semester...can't do much yet ) I wasn't at the best hospital ever... and, so one of the things I have to say that I hated the most was working with some of those nurses... some were great, don't get me wrong. But some were hostile, one nurse THREE times with different classes tried to get a student to do something she knew they weren't allowed to do, and when the student finally gave in (which yes, those students shouldn't have) she would call the instructor and tattle. There were other ones who would go to their manager about us (not me personally, but others in my group) when we did nothing wrong...fortunately we had an amazing instructor who stuck up for us! :) She even told the administration that because of how we were being treated, none of us would consider working there now...and that we shouldn't be everyone's scape goats. (Yes, awesome instructor!)
Oh, I guess my school isn't the only one with disorganization problems... we have some great instructors, but since they're nurses, shouldn't they be organized, have time management skills, and always show up on time? We're supposed to be there on time and be prepared...
I was so burned out by the end of last semester (my first semester) I thought I'd never want to start my second semester. But, a month break has done me a lot of good and I actually can't wait to get started again :-D
Guess my lastest peeve with work is the people who would rather pass off anytask onto someone else than to learn how to do it themselves. Meaning that one person gets stuck doing a particular case because someone else says "i don't know hoooooooooooow". Offer to teach them? "Oh maybe i'll learn later". No because if they learn it, they might actually be expected to DO it, meaning they might actually have to work.
People who have worked at a facility for 20-25 years, yet act like it's their first day on the job.
People who air out their not-without-drama life to a whole table full of people, likke all of those people REALLY cared about your 5th one night stand in a 2 week span of time.
People who sit by you at lunch and point to your food and say "That's high in sodium/sugar/fat." I don't know where people get the idea that they're Richard frickin Simmons.
People who air out their not-without-drama life to a whole table full of people, likke all of those people REALLY cared about your 5th one night stand in a 2 week span of time.
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Ahhh, come on Marie, you know that you want to know bc if they start itching in certain places, you will be off in the next room laughing your bottom off! I can not believe that people are proud of that kind of behavior. That is really sad.
Ahhh, come on Marie, you know that you want to know bc if they start itching in certain places, you will be off in the next room laughing your bottom off! I can not believe that people are proud of that kind of behavior. That is really sad.
And that's what gets me. We're in a specialty where we get to see example of what happens when people love well but not wisely. You'd THINK that would have an effect.
Then again, i work with quite a few tanning bed worshippers, who will assist on skin cancer removals, then go straight to the lastest booth after work.
Side-conversations, know-it-alls, teachers who are rude, people who use class as their personal therapy sessions, ALL drive me nuts. :trout: And although cell phones going off during class etc bothers me, I have to admit that on the day of our very last final of nursing school ever, I made the mistake of picking up my hubby's phone (which is always on loud ring) instead of mine (always on vibrate).....only I didn't know it until his phone started blaring - and the ring-tone is none other than Jimmy Buffet :Melody: "Wasted Away Again in Margaritaville" :Melody: !!!!!!! Nothing like being in the middle of one of the most important tests of nursing school, and having that happen! I was so mortified I turned purple and cried for 10 minutes. Luckily everyone else thought it was pretty funny and even funnier that I was hysterical about it :) Turns out it was my mother calling. :argue: I was furious and let her really have it because she knew I was in my final exam! She sounded shocked because she thought she could just leave a voice mail - can't remember what she wanted to say, but my kids weren't bleeding, dismembered or dead so it couldn't have been that important!
I just finished recently and it is all very fresh. My biggest pet peeves:
1) GROUPS!!! I got the reputation in the first semester as the person you want to be in a group with because I'm a control freak and will do all the work. NOT TRUE. I just care about my grade and the work I do and am morally opposed to plagiarism. I did ten times the work of some of the members in my groups and still got the same grade because they would not do it or would steal things from the internet word for word, no matter how hard I tried to get them do it right. They'll make lovely nurses, won't they?
2) PowerPoint. I had a couple of teachers who would just take sentences out of the book and put them on powerpoint slides, read them, and call that teaching. I could have stayed home.
3) Those who blame everyone but themselves for everything. Our school had an exit exam that you had to pass to graduate. 6 took it and passed. Others assumed that since we passed it must be easy and they would pass as well, but 5 or 6 ended up failing. One student had the nerve to say that the earlier tests must have been easier and that is why we passed. He asked how we had studied and was suprised to hear we had actually read the whole NCLEX review book. "Wow, that must have taken a long time." Ya think?
Nursing school actually made me very nervous because while there were some excellent nurses in the making, there were also a few who would lie, cheat, and complain until they were given the grade. I know there is a nursing shortage, but that is no excuse for the department to be passing students who absolutely did not earn it. I just hope the NCLEX will weed the bad ones out.
Anyway, long post. I sound bitter, but I'm just venting. I loved my teachers and my school and I got an amazing education and am embarking on an exciting career and I LOVE IT.
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when some nursing student was ask by their professor why they take up nursing and they answered "because it's indemand and cause my parents said so".... it's so irritating why they have to take up nursing but they don't like being a nurse or it's not what they really want.:angryfire
so irritating
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