Our teachers post all of our lecture notes on Powerpoint, and like a good student, I print them off at home and go through them before class. Well, some students don't have Powerpoint at home and have been printing them up in the Nursing computer lab. Then we all get in trouble because the College of Nursing has exceeded it's budget for the semester for paper and toner and if we're caught printing anything up at the computer lab we get in trouble.
This upsets me because I pay more than $16,000/year for private university tuition and I would expect to be able to print!! People have been going to the library to print instead, but geez!!!
Plus, my Foundations of Clinical Nursing teacher is a nightmare! She refuses to teach us drug calculations (despite the fact that I, once again, am PAYING to be taught!), despite the extreme importance they have placed on it, because, you know, it can kill a patient and all! She says it's okay because she's expecting half of the class to fail anyway! Then one girl decided that she wasn't ready to take our test on Monday, and called the teacher and said that she wasn't ready. Believe it or not, this teacher said "Oh, that's okay. You can just take it on Tuesday." What about the rest of us, like myself, who spent all weekend eating, sleeping, and breathing that test! That's not fair! I leave that class every Monday morning feeling unprepared, stupid, lazy, and worthless. She's horrible!
Other than that, I LOVE nursing school and have made some great friends. I'm doing well and loving it. At least I don't have her as my clinical instructor!
Wow....I guess I am lucky in the sense that we are taught drug dosage and we also use PP for lecture...we were provided the lecture materials with the syllabus (for a fee of course) and are given any extra handouts as necessary. The only thing is, for the lectures, since they are on PP, the professor just reads the PP notes verbatum. Sometimes I just wish they would quit wasting our time just reading to us and just let us out of class to study the stuff on our own free time. Most of our professors do not shed any highlights on what might be on the test so we have to decipher for ourselves what is gonna be on the test.
PilotJim68
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Wow....I guess I am lucky in the sense that we are taught drug dosage and we also use PP for lecture...we were provided the lecture materials with the syllabus (for a fee of course) and are given any extra handouts as necessary. The only thing is, for the lectures, since they are on PP, the professor just reads the PP notes verbatum. Sometimes I just wish they would quit wasting our time just reading to us and just let us out of class to study the stuff on our own free time. Most of our professors do not shed any highlights on what might be on the test so we have to decipher for ourselves what is gonna be on the test.