Open letter to my nursing instructors

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Let me preface this with - I really love you all, you are awesome and have helped me become a better nurse every semester. That said...

Could you please learn how to use your computer system? Can you please not assign homework that includes videos that have to be done before the first week of classes that can only be viewed in the library - and there's only one copy of - and the library is only open 4 hours a day before school starts? Could you maybe learn to be like some of the other instructors who learned to load their videos onto the school computer system so we can watch them from home?

I know - I understand that we are nursing student and we have to "be flexible". But, especially in this economy, some of us really do have to work through school - and when you get off after that library closes you have to take a day off of work to go watch movies! Especially when you have 12 chapters of homework due before the class starts...and some people have to wait until their student loans disperse to get books anyway!

Deep breath....thank you for listening to my rant. Just needed to get that out.

I'll have that homework ready for you on the first day anyway, Ma'am.

Just keep dancing :dancgrp:

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rotflmbo

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Hey - that's not funny - I was being serious!

Really.

I was.

Not that anyone would listen if I were.....

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p.s. could you please remember what you told us to study for the quiz. or is this part of your evil ploy to have us study things that you know are not on the test. just saying......

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p.s. could you please remember what you told us to study for the quiz. or is this part of your evil ploy to have us study things that you know are not on the test. just saying......

now that is funny! but what if it's on the nclex????

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Specializes in ED/TELE.

As I'm finishing up my homework for my first day of classes this semester (which start in 7 hours), I have the same sentiments as the OP. All I can say is, thank goodness for Google.

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Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.

I think what you are pointing out is perfectly reasonable. Not all the instructors know how to integrate technology to their teaching. It's second nature to students. I mean, sending people to the library to view a video is kind of quaint, don't you think? :chuckle

What's next, the mimeograph machine?:)

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Specializes in NICU, Post-partum.

"If you could also do us the biggest favor and read the textbooks. I know that it's much easier to recycle the same notes year after year and distribute them over and over again, but we eventually figure out that you haven't read the textbook--at all, when entire medical terms for diseases change and what you have in the notes doesn't even appear in the textook...or any other medical reference for that matter."

We kind of figure out you haven't read the book when you tell us to perform an intervention that the book specifically tells us NOT to do."

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

Always very good to hear practical advice from the student perspective.

Just wanted to point out that there are limitations on media copyrights that may not permit a video (or other type of media) to be loaded onto a network. This calls for a specific license. Also - instructors do not (unfortunately) have absolute control over the I.T. realm at any organization. They usually have to 'request' (beg, cajole, plead, grovel, cry, sob, whine, etc) with tecchies - just like the rest of us mere mortals.

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Specializes in Correctional Nursing, Orthopediacs.

I wish that we were not given assignments to do while we are on break. I need the time to unwind. I do not need 15 emails stressing me out while on said break about the upcoming 8 weeks.

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Specializes in Telemetry.
I wish that we were not given assignments to do while we are on break. I need the time to unwind. I do not need 15 emails stressing me out while on said break about the upcoming 8 weeks.

:argue::argue:sighs....

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