Nursing students and their bad behaviors >:(

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Hi allnurses! :)

So, I've been wanting to write this for a really long time now, I just want to vent.

I'm currently in my last semester of nursing school, then I graduate, yay me!:nurse:

I believe nursing school is an awesome experience that a lot of people work really hard to get into, and sometimes we may get rejected a few times before we finally get accepted into a program. Nursing school is NOT easy to get into, therefore, we should appreciate every moment that we spend in it, doing homework, studying, waking up early, going to clinicals, just embrace it! We worked so hard to get into this program, this will pay off in the end and it will be a huge accomplishment.

Ok so I want to get this off my chest and vent because sometimes my classmates really annoy me!

1. There's that one student that is always coming to class late, not 5-10 minutes, like (literally) an hour late! - NO!!! How is that you are always running that late?! I know she has kids but other students have kids and they manage their time and have everything set to get to class on time. Being constantly late, is unprofessional and irresponsible, not what you want to be in nursing school.

2. There's the students that are always wanting to change the schedule (that's already been set up for us by the instructors), change the rules, or complain about everything to the instructors- For example, if something on the schedule doesn't work for THEM, they go to the instructor and they make them change everything for the class. I look at the schedule and plan things around it, I never think "Hmmm, that assignment doesn't work for me on that day, I have to talk to my instructor". Be responsible and manage your time, the schedule/assignments are set up for us so we know what is due and when. DO YOUR WORK AND STOP COMPLAINING!

3. There's the students that don't like to wear their nursing uniform, what??- We earned that uniform! like I said, I know a lot of people that wish they can be in the program and wear the scrubs we wear with the school's name on it. We deserve to own it and show everyone that we are nursing students.

4. Like #2, we have student's that like to disobey the rules that are set for us. We are not allowed to wear nail polish or have long nails, yet some girls are still doing it regardless, like they think it's no big deal. You need to start acting and presenting yourself as professionals, those are cute on special occasions, but NOT for clinical.

5. There's one student that (I see) disrespects, and intimidates the instructors. She complains about everything and wants things done HER way. She gives the instructors a mean look and is very outspoken about how she wants things to be done (like #2). First of all, RESPECT your instructors, yea they are strict but it's for a good reason, they are teaching us how to be good, competent nurses. Second, Don't try to make things easy because you can't handle the hard work. I've never complained to the instructors because the work was too hard, and I've gotten very good grades thus far!

6. There's people that don't pay attention during lecture! This irritates me! I see them going on different websites in their laptops, then during break or after class, they say "so what were we talking about?" :facepalm:I'm not even joking! During clinical, a student asked what was a [certain condition we talked about in class]....ummm, we had a whole hour lecture on this condition and she didn't know what it was.

7. This is the one I HATE the most! People that want to copy your work. I don't agree with cheating or copying. I don't believe it's right that I worked so hard on an assignment, put the time and effort into it, and then have someone ask me to let them "borrow" it, when they clearly haven't done their work. I also had a student TELL ME after we were done with our midterm that she tried looking at my answers because she didn't know what one of the answers was. :no: She keeps asking for my assignments but I don't understand! We are about to graduate, we are about to be nurses, WORK for it, Oh but she gets mad when I don't give it.

8. The people that look for all the answers online instead of in the book....where they are :banghead: whenever we have online assignments/quizzes, not only do they look online for the answers (without reading and understanding it from the book) but they pass it around to the class, so NO ONE does the work, they just copy and don't understand the material.

Anyway, that's it for now, this is already too long.

Just wanted to let you guys know that as nursing students we need to work hard, understand the material, read, be organized, ask questions, respect and appreciate the instructors, we are held to a higher standard!

I just feel like I don't have a reason to complain, I knew this was going to be hard, and I'm enjoying and embracing every aspect of nursing school.

Do you guys have people like these in class?

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Are you in my class?

I swear there are students that do all this same stuff and they are all about to graduate.

It's not fair, but that stuff won't fly in the real world and they will all learn that soon enough.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

Hmm - sounds like you've been surrounded by quite a few "special little snowflakes". They are so special that rules don't apply to them - :whistling:. Don't worry, that herd will be thinned by NCLEX & subsequent real-world work experiences.

I only wish that there was more of YOUR TYPE to fill all of my organization's new grad residency programs -- since we seem to attract snowflakes.

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Are you in my class?

I thought the same thing. Not to mention the students who avoid all the ADLs in clinicals.

Honestly, I do my thing, for the most part. What other people do is not my business. I'm at school for myself. If people want to cheat their way through school, it will probably show when they fail their boards.

I'm willing to help classmates who show that they've put effort into understanding the material. I know a lot of my cohorts have families and work, while I have the luxury of not having these extra responsibilities.

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I can relate to a lot of these. Some of my classmates are constantly trying to push back projects and test dates. How about we all just buck up and study the stuff when we were originally supposed to?

I also absolutely hate it when people ask me what my grades are. Some classmates actually get mad when students get higher grades than they did. Then they'll go on and on about how unfair the test was or that the students that did well must have had some unfair advantage.

Basically, I dislike whiney people.

I don't really care if someone comes in late or if they don't pay attention. Unless they blame the teacher for it later. This has happened in my class. Their faces get all red as they defensively proclaim "we were NEVER taught this!"

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Specializes in Care Coordination, Care Management.

Sounds exactly like my experience. UGH. There are a couple people that should not have passed d/t breaking rules.

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Specializes in OB.

We weeded those people out our first 3 semesters. Why won't your professors do something about the tardiness or unprofessional attire? My school deals with it.

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Specializes in ED, psych.
I can relate to a lot of these. Some of my classmates are constantly trying to push back projects and test dates. How about we all just buck up and study the stuff when we were originally supposed to?

I also absolutely hate it when people ask me what my grades are. Some classmates actually get mad when students get higher grades than they did. Then they'll go on and on about how unfair the test was or that the students that did well must have had some unfair advantage.

Basically, I dislike whiney people.

I don't really care if someone comes in late or if they don't pay attention. Unless they blame the teacher for it later. This has happened in my class. Their faces get all red as they defensively proclaim "we were NEVER taught this!"

Omigoodness, THIS ^^^. That whining about pushing back those projects and test dates. A whole 30 minutes+ in class dedicated to that 'discussion' about changing around the syllabus, etc. It never works out in anyone's favor anyway, because something else always ends up being due at the same time. And it just gives those students 'additional' time to stress out. C'mon, now!

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Specializes in Pediatric/Adult Oncology.

As previously mentioned, these students will be weeded out when it comes to NCLEX. You get what you put into your education. As infuriating as it might be, let these people be a motivation to you as what kind of nurse you don't want to be. Your integrity and honesty will shine. Continue doing what you are doing and you will do wonderful. They will get what they put into their education and they will be saddened to learn that this type of behavior is not encouraged or tolerated in the work force.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.

Didn't have that many students like that; most were weeded out within the first two semesters; we were an accelerated part time program with many working people, so that helped.

I'm more frustrated with a-dare I say-"bully" student; that student "doesn't play nice with others" and will have a VERY hard time transitioning ANYWHERE.

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I agree with absolutely everything :) ...except for #1.

I feel that we don't have the right to judge nursing students with children that are late to class... They are probably getting their kids to school, rushing to class, working full-time, and barely making ends meet for all we know. Having one kid is a full-time job in itself.

I personally know a wonderful student with 3 children. She is frequently late because she has to take her kids to school, but she works very hard and achieves good grades.

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I'm in a non-degree LPN program, but am annoyed by the same kind of classmates. We had a test and a quiz in one day, and omg, the way 90% of the class was complaining - that's just too much. Finally one of my classmates said calmly, "Just study," as he shook his head in seemingly annoyance. I said, "Thank you." Of course we both got dirty looks. The teacher correctly said that it's common to have 2 or even 3 test in one day if we were in college. They complain about everything. Grow up.

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