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 finished in May, but some of my pet peeves are still fresh:
1) The students who think that all nurses are saintly, and should never have a bad day, and are in nursing because it's a calling. If you actually care about working conditions and pay, you're pegged as "just in it for the money" Sorry, I never claimed to be Mother Theresa. I happen to love working with people and love being an advocate for my patients but I expect to be compensated adequately and treated fairly....
2) People who talked during lecture and then complained when they missed some important piece of info.
3) The "storytellers" -sorry , tell it to Reader's Digest. I didn't pay tuition to hear about your IBS or your cat's skin condition.(goes for instructors also)
4) If you can't tell by now, I'm not exactly shy when something gets my goat. I speak up. Many of my classmates felt the way I did about certain issues, but it seemed like the same people always put their necks out there. The rest were "afraid" to say anything. I guess I can see why they would be but there is safety in numbers and some of us got tired of always fighting the powers that be...
5) care plans-I work in the OR so I never have to see another freakin' care plan again!!!
People who had the LUXURY of not working while going through school and would come late to class and brag about their partying the night before. I would be lucky to pass out for 3-4 hours a nite and show up early. Another pet peeve was the student who " never studied"
People who had the LUXURY of not working while going through school and would come late to class and brag about their partying the night before. I would be lucky to pass out for 3-4 hours a nite and show up early. Another pet peeve was the student who " never studied"
I totally agree. I am in my first semester of four and I have to work also. Then I have to listen to how this one went to see blue man group and someone else watches this or that on TV. It is so aggravating. One girl in my class bragged she had studied less than 10 hours and ended up getting an 88 which was the high grade in the class.
Another pet peeve of mine is my clinical instructor wants 8 pages of paperwork handed in on a Wednesday morning when we have a Tuesday clinical. I work on Tuesdays so I am usually up till 2 or 3 in the morning completing it. I get up at 6:30 on Wednesday and I am so tired that on the drive home I am literally falling asleep behind the wheel. The instructor says that we should not work on Tuesdays. She never gets our assignments back to us till the following Monday and makes us re-do the things that are not up to par. She must have been one of those students who did not have to work. LOL
It's not another student's fault if he/she doesn't have to work while in school. Are they supposed to just sit and say nothing, never talk about what they did on the weekend? Just don't associate with them if they bother you so much.
Your instructor doesn't schedule tests to suit your schedule. She has her own academic schedule she needs to follow. And if there are errors on what you hand in, of course you should have to go back and correct them. Getting a paper back you handed in on Wednesday on the following Monday is not unreasonable.
There will always be other people who do well and don't need to study as much. Get used to it. Spend more time focusing on what you need to do and less on who's partying, who didn't need to study and resenting the classmates who don't have to work.
My biggest pet peeve: Oh where to start, when the class first started in September, we were told by the instructors that it did not matter what kind of medical background or job we had in medical field, that there were people in the class that had none so we were to all start at the same level, no one higher! Guess its hard to keep that philosphy, there are 3 students in my class who know everything! I wonder why they just do no go straight to medical school. When I ask an instructor a question, one of the 3 will try to answer it for me. IT DRIVES ME CRAZY! Of course my first day of clinical at a nursing home I got one of them as my partner! UGH! She strong armed me out of anything I tried to do! Took credit for any issues or concerns I had for this pt, I would mention it and she would run to the instructor and tell her! I have to say if I could just gag them!!!! Any suggestions?
Took credit for any issues or concerns I had for this pt, I would mention it and she would run to the instructor and tell her! I have to say if I could just gag them!!!! Any suggestions?
I would flat out ask her why she find it necessary to take the credit for things that you have pointed out?
Also, in the future, i wouldn't point anything out to this supposed clinical patner, since she's proven what she does with the information.
And, i'd also check to see if it's possible to get another clinical partner, one that's less competitive and doesn't have a Napoleon complex (something to prove).
Hate the person who every day in class drinks their bottle of coke and then proceeds to burp out loud.
We had someone that did this in my psych class last year say "Uh sorry, pop does that to me TEEHEEEEHEE". Finally got fed up (i know, hard to believe heh) and said "You know, Kool-Aid has all the artificial color and tons of sugar that you want, without the burp-inducing carbonation, so we won't have to hear about it for THREE HOURS." She was offended (hate that for her, not), and played the poor-me crap.
However, she did continue drinking her soda, yet, strangely enough, never burped loudly in class after that.
Thanks for your response MarieLPN, I did mention to my instructor that I did not want to be her partner anymore, we do our documentation so differently that she told me in front of the instructor I was doing it wrong. So if you can help me, (in case I was wrong but just being stubborn), during the head to toe physical assessment, I took vitals first, pulse. respirations, temp, eyes, ears and oral. I then started the Auscultation, where I counted apical pulse. When documenting I always put vitals first, however under the physical assessment, thats where I put apical pulse, lung sounds, bowel sounds etc. Well she disagreed with me and said apical pulse should go under vitals, not ausultation. Was I wrong? We really have not gotten to documentation first, so I could be wrong! Hope not! As far as belching in class, the previous reply, I would tell that person that it is disgusting and disrespectful to the class.!!!!
The student, who had everything! or knows someone who did! said her kids had everything under the sun from brain cancer to deafness, husband had stage four skin cancer that the doctor allowed her to "Watch". Knew every child on the news who was abused. Coached baseball for the daughter, ballet for the son, taught theology, taught sunday school, and was a surroget mom for her first pregnancy at the age of 19! GIVE ME A BREAK! Our whole class was so fed upo with the lies even the teachers would discuss her histrionic behavior lol ..PLUUUUUUSSSSEEEE
UGH! We had one of those in my ADN class and now in my BSN crossover. I think there is always one in every class
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I finished in May, but some of my pet peeves are still fresh:
1) The students who think that all nurses are saintly, and should never have a bad day, and are in nursing because it's a calling. If you actually care about working conditions and pay, you're pegged as "just in it for the money" Sorry, I never claimed to be Mother Theresa. I happen to love working with people and love being an advocate for my patients but I expect to be compensated adequately and treated fairly....
2) People who talked during lecture and then complained when they missed some important piece of info.
3) The "storytellers" -sorry , tell it to Reader's Digest. I didn't pay tuition to hear about your IBS or your cat's skin condition.(goes for instructors also)
4) If you can't tell by now, I'm not exactly shy when something gets my goat. I speak up. Many of my classmates felt the way I did about certain issues, but it seemed like the same people always put their necks out there. The rest were "afraid" to say anything. I guess I can see why they would be but there is safety in numbers and some of us got tired of always fighting the powers that be...
5) care plans-I work in the OR so I never have to see another freakin' care plan again!!!