ikatiana21

I have a few pet peeves I just realized this morning while posting under another forum and I have to agree with some on here! I HATE HATE HATE instructors that are apathetic towards their students/students work. I just switched out a clinical group where the teacher refused to hand out ANY contact information to the student; she didnt want to be bothered outside of work. Then when we were going over our med sheets, she didnt help us and didnt even grade it! None of us had the same answers, so some of us were definetely wrong. :angryfire And I hate snotty nursing girls. Most are straight out of high school and think that that things go the same way here, WRONG. There is one group in particular in my classes that I cant STAND. AND one more (sorry). I hate people that think they know more than the instructor because they work in a hospital. If you know so darn much, why are you taking picture in the NICU and not a nurse?!?! One of the girls in my lecture class corrects the teacher non-stop, under her breath and to our group of course (for the most part). One class we were doing a patient write up and there was description of a Stage 2 pressure ulcer. The girl kept saying it was a "1". I finally told her, "Look, put what you want to put, but Im not changing my answer". The answer was given and she was WRONG, so I pointed out "Make sure you mark that wrong". She got mad and tried to argue w/ the teacher, who in turn put her in her place. :yelclap: I know its mean to be happy about that, but cmon now, you are not the teacher!!!

I just started nursing in August and I've been looking around at different areas that interest me. So far, this is the area I really want to go into. I was a psych major until I switched to nursing and I was going to go into counseling for for battered women, self esteem issues, etc; Im very passionate about these sort of things. I had also looked into going into the police academy and dealing w/ sex crimes and such; again, advocating for the women. I have two questions: 1) I've heard that forensics nursing is extremely hard to get into, bc the demand is little to none, how true is this? 2) Would finishing out my psych degree (or maybe social work, the two plans are almost identical) help me at all? The one site I looked at said you needed five years experience to become a SANE, so I figured I might as well be gathering classes/knowledge under my belt during those years!

Thinks have gotten better since I first posted, but not because of my instructors; they are for the most part still useless. However, I went to my first clinical and the RN's on the floor and the PCT's were WONDERFUL! They taught me way more than, I've learned all semester. Im hoping that during Fall II, that I just get better teachers, I just got a crappy hand during Fall I. At least my A&P class is easy, that teacher is phenomenal. Thanks for all the encouragement guys! And the comic relief!

Group work is just what is sounds like, working in a group. I dont feel comfortable being "taught" by people that could be teaching me wrong, and I dont feel comfortable teaching things I dont know. I dont like standing in front of groups demonstrating procedures that I dont know how to do, then getting talked down too by my instructor; I dont have the patience for that. Luckily, it hasnt happened to me, but a girl in my group was reduced to tears because the instructor pretty much called her stupid for asking too many questions. So on top of the stress of having to do a procedure that they NEVER taught and her embaressing you, you have a group of people watching you as well and judging. If I knew what I was doing, people could watch me all day long, I wouldnt care. Im not a loner, but I am shy in groups. Like I said before, my patient interaction is great; one on one is where I shine. Are you saying that Im going to be miserable if Im shy? One of the things Im unsure of goes hand in hand with being miserable. All my instructors seem like they are the coldest women ever. They talk about patients "circling the drain", laugh about/tell stories about gross people, and are generally rude about patients. Im sure they do this to cope with stress and to detatch themselves, but I dont ever want to talk about people Im helping like that. And am I really suited for a profession where you are pretty much destined to be "cold" after awhile, only to save you're own sanity? Im also very unsure about this school. Like I said, the teachers are very uncaring for one, they also cannot teach. For example, in my Foundations class yesterday, we started going over cultural diversity in nursing. A man in my class asked the teacher where she was getting her notes, she replied Transcultural Health Care. The man said, Correct me if Im wrong, but we were never assigned reading in this book, will it be on the test tommorow". SHe said "Correct ME, if Im wrong, but I put them on the board last week". She never put it on the board. So after we got out of class at 5pm, we had to read 13 chapters for our test today. She mumbles, so we cant hear anything she says, and for the most part, so you only hear about every 5 th word out of her mouth. Not that it matter because, even though she assured us all the test came directly from her lecture, most of it came from the book. And I wont even start in on my clinical classes. I think its the teachers job to make sure we are confident in our work and should be able to send us into the hospital knowing what we are doing. So far, I havent seen any of this.

I just started nursing school and I'm already second guessing my choice. I really would like to be a nurse, but Im so unsure of what Im doing, I wonder if any nurses felt that way in the beginning. I have issues with group work, but my client interaction is phenomenal. Can a student survive nursing school and not be able to preform well in group labs, assignments, etc? My instructors PREACH that if we are unsure about what we are doing and dont feel completely comfortable we need to talk to them, but they all seem bothered when you do! My clinical instructor acts like your an idiot if you ask too many questions or go to her with concerns. Are ALL nursing teachers like that? Maybe Im just at the wrong school.

Im from Union, MO but Im living in STL for my ASN program at Barnes Jewish College of Nursing.

I have to take the NET test very soon, within the next month. I havent taken a math class since I was a junior in high school, wh/ was around 6 years ago! I am SO RUSTY on my math. Can anyone tell me of a good site that help me work on my math skills. I'm feel ok about the other sections. But any advice on those are MORE than welcomed too. I dont see many questions about the NET test anywhere. Is it not used very much?

Thanks for help. I know its going to take time, but I keep trying to find a faster route. I'm already 24. The AA thing is probably what I'll do.

I have just decided to become a nurse. Currently I'm a bio major and I only have 35 credits. Im confused on what I should do now. I could finish my AA, then head to a university to get my BA. I could go straight to a university. I could become an LPN and bridge over to a get my AA in nrg or to a university! I will be a CNA in ten weeks, if that makes a difference either. Most people are telling me to become an LPN first, but wont that take way more time than if I just go straight in. Luckily the waiting lists where I live arent that bad. So I should be able to get almost straight in wherever I go. If anyone could offer me some advice or maybe a website, that would great. I'd also like to learn more about what I can specialize in