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!
In my class we have a girl who constantly raises her hand and asks "what if...(insert improbable scenario here)" and next to her sits a girl who will often raise her hand and dispute the information being delivered in the lecture, she starts off her comments with, "Actually..." (eg: Actually, Professor, arrhythmia means no rhythm- you should use the term dysrhythmia.) They are friends and when I see them coming I think to myself, here come "What if" and "Actually"
Another favorite nursing student caricature is the one who decides that s/he needs to co-teach. In my skills lab, we have a girl who paraphrases everything the teacher says right after she says it. She's not doing it to check for her own understanding, she's trying to reiterate it for the rest of us! It comes of as very arrogant, but we just try to laugh it off.
Haha, I swear I have the same student in my classes.
LOL! I think I'm one of those students that nods/shakes her head during lecture. I honestly have no idea that I'm doing it, but when I do notice it I stop immediately! LOL :) Eventually, I start doing it again....HEY! At least I'm paying attention! LOL
I feel the same way! I guess it's just a habit for me haha :-)
Oh, there is always that one person who keeps asking "Is this going to be on the test?" after every single big concept.
I also have a classmate who keeps on talking about TV series during classes. It annoys me. I don't know why. Maybe because of the sound of her voice. lol.
"Miss when you say rotate the injection sites do you mean to twist the needle round and round?"
"I have a third nipple too! It lines up just like a dog."
"Oh that's what those missing eldery signs mean? I thought someone was kidnapping old people."
"I picked a crab off one of my patient's one time and brought it to my micro professor."
To a SANE nurse "Can you tell me what makes someone prone to rape? Because I was raped, my mom was raped, my sister was raped, and my brother was raped." The SANE nurse was dumbfounded.
Teardrop pupil "Maybe that's just the way they're holding the eyelid."
Specializes in Emergency/Trauma/Critical Care Nursing.
My friend and I always crack up on these;
"Miss when you say rotate the injection sites do you mean to twist the needle round and round?"
"I have a third nipple too! It lines up just like a dog."
"Oh that's what those missing eldery signs mean? I thought someone was kidnapping old people."
"I picked a crab off one of my patient's one time and brought it to my micro professor."
To a SANE nurse "Can you tell me what makes someone prone to rape? Because I was raped, my mom was raped, my sister was raped, and my brother was raped." The SANE nurse was dumbfounded.
Teardrop pupil "Maybe that's just the way they're holding the eyelid."
These were classmates that said these? Oh lord... Lol
When I was in my OB class there was a group of three ladies who sat in the front and chimed in with a story from when they were pregnant and our entire class would collectively roll our eyes and prepare for the 5 minute story that added no helpful info to the topic at hand whatsoever. On the plus side, whenever I heard something like "Well with my 3rd pregnancy my doctor said..." or "That's not what happened with my 5th kid..." I knew I was usually clear to take a bathroom/water break if I needed. Unfortunately our teacher was too polite to shut them down and we ended up not covering material that was on the tests a lot of the time.
For some odd reason none of these ladies, despite their obviously vast knowledge of obstetrics, managed to pass the class.
During OB clinical me and a male classmate were about to observe a circumcision. When the newborn was given an injection into his member, my classmate's eyes were as big around as saucers and he exclaimed "OH MY GOD!!!". He told me that he thought the shot was going to go into the infant's leg.... Absolutely cracked me up!! His face was priceless :)
I think my biggest pet peeve of all (and most widely applicable) is that person who consistently asks a question that was LITERALLY just answered exactly 5 seconds ago in lecture....
I think my biggest pet peeve of all (and most widely applicable) is that person who consistently asks a question that was LITERALLY just answered exactly 5 seconds ago in lecture....
There's someone in my class like that. The best day was when, just after she asked a particularity stupid question, the professor said that 'often the answer to a question is in the title of the slide'. There were fewer questions from that girl after that.
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In my class we have a girl who constantly raises her hand and asks "what if...(insert improbable scenario here)" and next to her sits a girl who will often raise her hand and dispute the information being delivered in the lecture, she starts off her comments with, "Actually..." (eg: Actually, Professor, arrhythmia means no rhythm- you should use the term dysrhythmia.) They are friends and when I see them coming I think to myself, here come "What if" and "Actually"