Stupid classmate tricks

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Education.

So, in honor of stupid human tricks, we have the stupid nursing tricks and stupid hospital tricks threads on the general nursing forum. The eating in class thread made me realize that we don't have a stupid classmate tricks thread! Many, many years ago, when I was in nursing school, we had one classmate who tried to interrupt every lecture to tell us about a friend/relative/coworker who had EXACTLY that illness we were discussing. Every...single...time. So, what stupid classmate tricks have you seen? It could be:

-something hilarious, a simple mistake

-an annoying behavior

-An attempt to pull something over/cheat/etc that ended badly

-anything that just made you laugh

Note: the intent of the thread is a good-natured laugh, both at others or yourself. I was distracted once and was charting on a patient going home with home health via car. The patient needed assistance with ADLs, wound care, and his condom catheter. I charted that he was dc'd to home with his spouse via condom catheter with follow up by home health for wound vac, ADL assistance, and private car!

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There's an older woman in our class who feels the need to say "bless you" after every time someone sneezes in class. It sounds polite and nice, until people have sneezing fits during tests in the winter months. Bless you, bless you, bless you, bless you. It's so distracting!!

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.

When I was finishing up my pre-reqs, I was taking A&P II over the summer. I was taking it with a former classmate from my LVN program. The teacher was awesome & he offered extra credit by doing reviews of ALL the chapters. I did them all, by myself. On the last day of class I was finishing the reviews & she asks me if she can copy them.

I wanted to slap her - oh back up a bit & she was texting in class next to me & got OFFENDED when I told her not to! She didn't sit next to me any more after that. Oh & she would constantly be late to class. She did PDN so there was no reason she couldn't show up on time. I worked night shift PDN & had class in the morning. Never late.

Anyway, I obviously told her no. I busted my butt on those reviews, not for her to copy & get the extra credit for nothing.

She applied & got accepted to a BSN program. Surprise, surprise she failed out.

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A pre-nursing student I knew was very, very disturbed by torsade de pointes. She read the little blurb on my EKG handbook and exclaimed, "WHAT?! You mean the heart twists around and around in the chest?!"

No, no, no. The EKG tracing twists around like this...

She breathed a sigh of relief.

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There's an older woman in our class who feels the need to say "bless you" after every time someone sneezes in class. It sounds polite and nice, until people have sneezing fits during tests in the winter months. Bless you, bless you, bless you, bless you. It's so distracting!!

My friend has a rule.

"I'll bless you the first time, I'll bless you the second time, but the third time? Get your **** together."

I laugh every time.

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Specializes in ICU/ Surgery/ Nursing Education.

We also had a classmate that either had or was currently experiencing what ever condition or disease we were discussing. A small group of us enlisted the instructors assistance and created a rare imaginary disease that was mentioned in class....... Funny thing was she thought she heard of it and her aunt might have been suffering from it. Go figure... :sarcastic:

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We had a girl in our A&P classes who talked endlessly about whatever subject we were lecturing over that week. It drove everyone nuts. She would say is that why they say...and then proceed to go on and on about nothing. Drove me absolutely nuts. Then I had a guy in sociology who would ask what he thought was thought provoking questions and they had nothing to do with what we were talking about. I wanted to place duct tape over his mouth. I'm all for participating in class and asking questions but when your discussion takes up half the class and we don't get done what we are supposed to then I have an issue.

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We have a girl that nods her approval or shakes her head disapprovingly at everything the teacher says throughout the entire lecture. It is so distracting that no one wants to sit behind her! It's so funny to watch her endorse the lecture. :D

We have another guy that either challenges what the teacher says with a "Yeah... But!" Or, he comes up with off the wall scenarios and asks what you would do in the situation. Very hypothetical, never heard of scenarios. The instructor will tell him that you can usually figure it out with simple prioritizing. Then comes the "Yeah... But!" And... before you know it 45 minutes of lecture is wasted and we didn't get important info for the test. Sigh.

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We had a girl in our A&P classes who talked endlessly about whatever subject we were lecturing over that week. It drove everyone nuts. She would say is that why they say...and then proceed to go on and on about nothing. Drove me absolutely nuts. Then I had a guy in sociology who would ask what he thought was thought provoking questions and they had nothing to do with what we were talking about. I wanted to place duct tape over his mouth. I'm all for participating in class and asking questions but when your discussion takes up half the class and we don't get done what we are supposed to then I have an issue.

I have one of these in every class! There has got to be some sort of underlying thought process that causes people to go off on a tangent about themselves/family/loosely related story during class! Tell me if you ever figure it out! haha.

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Oh, there is always that one person who keeps asking "Is this going to be on the test?" after every single big concept.

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Oh, there is always that one person who keeps asking "Is this going to be on the test?" after every single big concept.

Yep. I always feel like they're really asking, "this sounds hard, do I really need to learn it?" Especially when it's the main point of a two hour lecture.

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Anyway, I obviously told her no. I busted my butt on those reviews, not for her to copy & get the extra credit for nothing.

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