This might be fun. You all know the different types of nursing students you go to school with. For instance:
The guy student who has the palm pilot with all the latest programs, which he plays with for hours on end, fanny pack, scissors of varying sizes, hemostats, and all kinds of gizmos attached to his pack. Always this type wants to work in the ICU's or ER upon graduation, wants to be where the ACTION is!
There's the beauty queen, full face make up, eyes made up like a cats, always dressed to the 9's even in scrubs or that awful school smock you may have to wear, every curl neatly in place, perfect lips. Looking for that MD to replace her RN upon graduation.
The studious student. In her/his back pack are not one, not two, but at least 4 - 1500 page nursing testbooks, at least 2 tape recorders and multiple notebooks. Sits in the front row but no one really knows her/him, disappears after classes.
OK I'm The Class Mom. First week of school I gathered names & contact info, typed up, & handed out an "address book" for the class... complete with thumbnail photos so we'd remember who we all were by our faces before we knew names! I also typed up & distributed the class schedule in a more user-friendly format than the faculty gave us, created a group website just for the students in our class, and uploaded about 100 bookmarks on various websites (mostly gleaned from AllNurses threads) helpful to nursing students. :chuckle
I admit to being an organized freak (to a fault, sometimes). I do this stuff for myself, so I figure I might as well share. Hey if it benefits someone else, and I'm already doing it anyway, why not! I haven't seemed to irritate anyone yet (except one gal who refuses to join the group website's email list because she "doesn't have time" for the occasional e-discussion that the rest of us share). Whenever anyone needs something, who do they come to? That's right, the Class Mom, lol. Greater than 90% chance I've got it handy, too!
The studious student. In her/his back pack are not one, not two, but at least 4 - 1500 page nursing testbooks, at least 2 tape recorders and multiple notebooks. Sits in the front row but no one really knows her/him, disappears after classes.
Yup, that's me, but I do try to get to know my fellow students!
no, she was in my lpn class, :chuckle. she delivered over the weekend, returned on monday to take the final.
ohhh god bless her, she was in my class! lol had her baby saturday morning, got out of the hospital monday afternoon and came straight to class to take a quiz. she's my hero.
Let's not forgot, the student who's goal is to try a new type of alcohol every night, says she can't concentrate enough to sit and study, then WONDERS why she flunks the tests. Well DUUUUH!
Specializes in critical care; community health; psych.
How about the smooth talker/BS artist. In clinical, he/she is known to answer a direct question with a big-word broad answer that is technically correct and sounds impressive but not quite nailed down to anything specific. The instructor knows what he's up to and he's got no one fooled but he's playing it safe and that's all that matters.
Has anyone mentioned the student who will ask a question that is off topic to the class you are attending that you wonder how they are sitting in the same class as yourself? You know the type of questions that leave you wondering if they are hearing the same lecture as you, or have the voices within their head taken over?
Has anyone mentioned the student who will ask a question that is off topic to the class you are attending that you wonder how they are sitting in the same class as yourself? You know the type of questions that leave you wondering if they are hearing the same lecture as you, or have the voices within their head taken over?
OMG, I had one of those too. I had forgotten all about her. Yes, you are never quite sure if she is really from this world or from somewhere else.
Specializes in Float Pool, ICU/CCU, Med/Surg, Onc, Tele.
The ones that slay me are the ones that ask questions that are CLEARLY answered in the text, like, in large bold font, with pictures, to where if you even OPENED the book you couldn't miss it... clearly signifying that they haven't bothered to read the chapter. How the instructor manages NOT to reach over & smack 'em I have no idea, lol.
How about the student who has no idea what's due or when it's due let alone what class their sitting in or when the next test is or what day it is or .. oh wait, that's me! :uhoh3: :uhoh3:
I have one who's cell phone rings ALL THE TIME!!! She will sometimes even answer it!! I've had her in two classes & I just want to ring her neck. She will not turn it off, or even to vibrate..she just keeps saying she has to have it on, cuz she "runs a business". Last I knew, she's a waitress!!
I've gotten to the point with the cell phone deal where i say something like "the class is not your phone booth". Yeah that's rude, but the fact that these people have been asked to turn it off REPEATEDLY and STILL don't do it burns my ***. I understand there are emergencies, but COME ON!
How about the dum-dum who leaves their phone ringer on and while she is in the restroom during lecture and the phone rings and rings? :angryfire I do not know who is the bigger dummie in that situation, Miss. Rude Princess or the idiot who cannot get the hint that after 10 or so rings someone is not going to answer.
And another one of my big pet peeves. The girl who walks into the lecture 10 minutes late, slams the door, and then has the nerve to look at the class like its our fault for starting on time. One small bit of advice, if you are going to interupt 70 students at least look remorseful or better yet....use the door located at the back of the class. The type of person who seems to walk and react in super slow motion.....PUT SOME PEP IN YOUR STEP, SISTER! I can tolerate anyones occasional lateness. BUT constantly being late is a serious abnormal behavior in my book. I think after being late everyday I would start to think to myself.....HMMMM maybe I should get up earlier, leave the house earlier, walk a little faster or check my clocks. I'm not saying put lives in danger by speeding down the freeway...just get to class when it starts. Is that too much to ask??? Maybe it is...she is definitely no Albert Einstein.
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orrnlori, RN
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Wish we would have had a class mom!