OK really leave me alone already!!!

[Chantilly]

I'm in first semester and we have several people in our class that failed last semester and are repeating...don't get me wrong it's great that they got a second chance, but quit being negative all the time and don't act like you know everything. A few of these people have the worst attitude toward others, for example on them walked up to me and my friend and said "Well I hope you studied all weekend, because if you didn't you are going to fail. You know you are going to fail, you have to study study study." OK really just because you didn't make it through the first time doesn't mean that you need to impose your negative attitude upon others. Really if they know this semester is so hard way don't they offer encouragement, and tips on things they didn't do right the first time around. Nursing school is stressful enough without your peers being negative toward you. It also irritates me that many of these people act like know-it-alls, and some of the things they are walking around spouting off to people is just flat wrong. They sit around in lab and talk a giggle instead of practicing, and then when they are asked to demonstrate their skill they don't know what they are doing!!! :angryfire HOLY CRAP!!!! I might have to put up with these people for the next two years...I really hoping that they get better, because I am not sure that I can bite my tounge forever. Well thanks for letting me vent...I fell better already!!!

[dodgerla]

ok-so this may not be exactly the same situation-but I feel just like you do!!! My hubby has a friend who flunked out of a bsn program-well I am working on an ADN, she says that the reason why she flunked is bc her program was harder because it is a bsn program and "EVERONE" (her words) knows that thats harder. This situation has put a rift between our two families. Just the other day I was at her house and one of her church friends was there-who happens to be a nurse....well, after I left the room-for a split second, still in hearing distance-she says "she's only in an associates program.." I was pissed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :angryfire I left before ripping her head off-but I told my husband that that was the LAST LAST LAST comment I was going to take from her (he hates it too). I just try to be the better person and do my best because in the end, I will have my RN and will have earned it!!!

I think you're doing very well to keep your mouth shut for as long as you have. I would have told her what I thought a long time ago. BUT at least you know that you're going to make it through the program that you are in with flying colors, and she can't say the same about herself. It should make you feel good to know that you are a good enough person not to make her feel as bad about herself as she is making you feel about yourself!