Teal dear as usual. Suffice it to say, I disagree with that teacher's policy. It's dumb and it creates a barrier to learning for many- if not most- students. Nursing is about developing higher level thinking skills, not sitting quietly while teacher-approved material is carefully spoon fed to you.
Perhaps the instructor's purpose is not to "spoon feed" material, but to have students pay attention, participate in class, and exercise their critical thinking skills by engaging in discussion of the topic at hand, rather than "sitting quietly" with their noses in a book or their computers/devices.
How many times have I corrected my teachers in their lectures by referring to my textbook?
What on earth is wrong with you?!?!?
As others have said, by the time our nursing textbooks go to print, they're already out of date. I use my books as reference for care plans and that's about it (because it's required in the rubric; however, it's also required that we use the most recent possible journal articles as references as well). I would be laughed at if I stepped to an instructor using my text as a reference. I can see pointing out a discrepancy and discussing it but it's really neither here nor there. Because of the way evidence-based practice works, you're supposed to do your own research in peer reviewed journals (as recent as you can find them) and work it out for yourself. Using your textbook to try and "correct" an instructor is, frankly, amateur hour.
She has some cojones to do that to an instructor and honestly comes off as a arrogant know it all. I would have never in and will never stop a lecturer and "correct" them.
That is some pompous sh**.
Just imagine her correcting her preceptor, pulling out her 101 to nursing pocket book guide. [emoji24][emoji24][emoji24][emoji24][emoji24][emoji24][emoji24]
I just heard a discussion re: this on NPR. The jist was that research has found that note taking is far and away the most effective way of learning class material .
^ THIS. One classmate of mine flipped through and was highlighting her textbook all during lecture just a few seats away from me. It was incredibly distracting.
Textbooks are to supplement lecture, not to be read during lecture. Not to mention that if there are less distractions you're probably more apt to pay attention and retain what's being taught in class.
I have a student next to me and she highlights everything in her text during lecture and IT IS incredibly distracting.
Like some have mentioned there probably is a good reason for this - and who knows? The reason may be that you will do better on the material she is teaching you by doing it her way. I doubt she is doing it out of spite or to try to give her class a rougher time. Keep it up!
Not to be mean, but since many of us are siding on the side of the instructor, the OP may not want to return.
OP - nursing school is really tough. Being a nurse is really hard as well. There will be policies that you do not personally agree with in your work. This is life. If you want to make change, be an agent for change. Abide by the rules, research what you want changed to really see if change is feasible. Some people will change other not.
Your class is only a semester, pass the class and move on. You do not need a book for lecture, this is the rule. Abide by the rule, play the game and graduate from nursing school.
Good Luck, hopefully you can find a healthy outlet for the stress of school.
She is the instructor - she has the right to run her class the way she wants. Perhaps she thinks people get distracted reading their books while they should be LISTENING to the lecture. Sometimes text books are outdated or may not be correct according to your state. Text books are a great resource but tend to be written by academia. My experience in nursing school was that my instructors/professors had actual knowledge and life experience behind those lectures. You won't agree with everything you hear coming out of their mouths but they are also teaching you to pass the nclex where as your text books is just straight out information. Your schooling is all geared to pass that test. You will not use 80 percent of what you read in your textbook or learned in class anyway once you start working.
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Perhaps the instructor's purpose is not to "spoon feed" material, but to have students pay attention, participate in class, and exercise their critical thinking skills by engaging in discussion of the topic at hand, rather than "sitting quietly" with their noses in a book or their computers/devices.