Nursing School Competition

[spritez]

During my clinical rotation, two girls were whispering to each other in the locker room and I asked them what was going on. One of them walked away and the other told me that they were discussing hints about what would be on an upcoming test, but the first girl didn't want to tell anyone else.

I find this kind of stuff ridiculous - hoarding helpful information, not replying to emails from students who have missed classes and are looking for notes on what they missed. How does not helping out your fellow students get you any further in school? Nursing school is hard enough as it is, I don't see how it hurts you not to help other students out, so that we can all succeed together. I am always ready to email my notes to students who have missed classes. I have their back, and I hope they have mine. I'm blessed to have made good friends with a couple reasonable classmates, but they're hard to come by.

I understand people feel like if others don't do the work, they shouldn't get the marks. But some of it is just unreasonable and selfish. We all have things going on in our lives that make it hard to be on the ball 100% of the time.

I just wish there were more of a feeling of unity amongst nursing students. We're all in this together. Lend a helping hand.:redbeathe

[ktsummar, LPN, LVN]

I start my program in the fall but this even occurred in my AP classes. Even for me, I quickly hit it off with a few people in class and we started helping each other from the beginning. There were 2 guys in the class that none of us could really stand and when they would ask questions it was very annoying to us. Our professor picked up on it and assigned us group projects and broke down our group and mixed us in with the others. I ended up with one of the students that I didn't care much for. In working on our assignment, we worked really well together and we kind of grew on each other. After that assignment, we included them in our study groups and we were all glad we did.

[~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN]

I would only help those willing to help themselves. If you are missing class all the time, never prepared and never doing your work then know I am not going t help you. I have a group of friends though that I would absolutely help and I know they would help me and have. I would help people out of my group as well if they were putting forth their own effort in school.

[FLmomof5]

" "Test banks?! Alright, that is just unethical and academically dishonest"You're right, it is. " ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I don't think I totally agree. To say it is dishonest would then say that everyone that uses NCLEX practice exams (comprised of previous NCLEX test bank questions) or SAT practice exams (also comprised of previous SAT test bank questions) is also academically dishonest.As the teacher says, she isn't using that bank anymore. BTW, some of our instructors will use prior exams that are no longer in the "bank" to prepare us for exams.