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.
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!
Had a bunch of them in my A&P I three years ago and not one of them passed including one that was in my lab group. The other "older mom" and I did fine. :rotfl:
Ah yes, the Rapid Tester. Can you believe how fast some of these people are??? We have one too. I've always been fairly fast, usually because I know the material and don't have to vacillate between answers, but Omigoodness this gal is SPEEDY. And SMART. Was accepted to med school prior to choosing nursing... now married & pregnant, and I'm betting big bucks she'll be back in class within 2 days of delivery. We'll all insist she bring the baby to class every day for us to cuddle during lecture, of course! This gal ROCKS.
I AM one of those rapid testers, but I think it's because I am afraid I will forget the answer to all the questions I crammed for just before the exam started! :rotfl:
I also find that if I go back and re-check answers I have already given, I end up changing them when I was right the first time. If I don't know an answer, I mark the side, leave it blank and go back at the end.
The person who asks 456 questions a minute, with each question being more off-the-wall than the last? I mean most questions are so far in left field that the entire class and instructor are usually like huh?
The "attitude" who is just constantly exuding attitude, the eye rolling, the sarcastic tone of voice, the smart remarks (to instructors and classmates)...but usually sweet-as-pie when they need something from you, i.e., to copy your notes, a pencil, etc.
The "I-don't-do-it-that-way" expert. Will ask you what/how you're doing something and then proceed to berate you because you are doing it differently from the way they would do it, therefore it's wrong, time-consuming, etc. :angryfire
I feel like I'm forgetting someone, but you guys covered the other 50% of my class :chuckle
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.
wow, that is a cool idea (& sounds like lots of work!). How many people are in your class?! I would like to do this in the Fall, but for the 80 people that we'll have, I'm not sure!
How about the student that knows at least one person per disease. Conversation would go like this: Teacher: "Now we're going to learn exactly how [insert disease here] is inherited or contracted. Student: "My neighbor's, brother-in-law's, sister's, husband had that."
I love it! Never fails, everytime this person knows someone who had whatever we are talking about.
LOL!!! Boy, do we have some of these! One of the women in class is thinking about making up a disease & symptoms, etc, to see which one of the people knows someone who had it first! :rotfl:
LOL!!! Boy, do we have some of these! One of the women in class is thinking about making up a disease & symptoms, etc, to see which one of the people knows someone who had it first! :rotfl:
OK, I was the rapid test taker, I was always the first one done, and I even read it twice. I took NCLEX in 50 minutes thats from the time I walked in, checked in, did the intro stuff, answered 75 questions and left!
I also was nicknamed our class chearleader. I was the one with the countdown of how many days left, kept everyone going, threw stress relief parties at my house, and was always there to pick someone up if they had a bad day. I was perky at 6:00 AM for clinicals, hair and make up done. I aslo had emergency surgery the week before finals, studied in my hospital bed, and was back to school two days after discharge not missing one day of class! I couldn't see myself getting through school any onther way.
Good luck to everyone still in school! If you need a cheerleader PM me! :)
Specializes in Float Pool, ICU/CCU, Med/Surg, Onc, Tele.
wow, that is a cool idea (& sounds like lots of work!). How many people are in your class?! I would like to do this in the Fall, but for the 80 people that we'll have, I'm not sure!
Darn, ya caught me... We only have 19 in our class :chuckle But, knowing me, I bet I would have been even MORE inclined to do that stuff if we'd had a huge class. It's just so hard to remember everyone at first.
Yahoo groups are supereasy to start, and free. I basically set one up and added everyone's email addy, then let them all know the website was there. No teachers or outside people allowed, only those of us in our cohort (no prior or later nursing classes). That way we feel free to "vent" privately there, discuss school issues, invite people to parties, whatever... We kept the group "secret" (not really being obsessive about secrecy, just no need for the school to know) for over a year, but eventually someone mentioned it to the school. I thought they might raise an eyebrow but they never did. Now we have one teacher who emails me and asks me to send messages out to the group for her...
For the address book, I just passed around a piece of paper the first day asking everyone to list whatever contact info they felt comfortable sharing. I had columns for name, address, phone, cell phone, and email. Most people filled everything in, and I took whatever info I had and put it into a spreadsheet that night, emailing it to everyone. I also took a digital camera (this would be harder for a large class) and did a closeup of each student's face (no body paranoia that way, lol), and inserted that into the spreadsheet later. Voila! Instant address book.
Darn, ya caught me... We only have 19 in our class :chuckle But, knowing me, I bet I would have been even MORE inclined to do that stuff if we'd had a huge class. It's just so hard to remember everyone at first.
Yahoo groups are supereasy to start, and free. I basically set one up and added everyone's email addy, then let them all know the website was there. No teachers or outside people allowed, only those of us in our cohort (no prior or later nursing classes). That way we feel free to "vent" privately there, discuss school issues, invite people to parties, whatever... We kept the group "secret" (not really being obsessive about secrecy, just no need for the school to know) for over a year, but eventually someone mentioned it to the school. I thought they might raise an eyebrow but they never did. Now we have one teacher who emails me and asks me to send messages out to the group for her...
For the address book, I just passed around a piece of paper the first day asking everyone to list whatever contact info they felt comfortable sharing. I had columns for name, address, phone, cell phone, and email. Most people filled everything in, and I took whatever info I had and put it into a spreadsheet that night, emailing it to everyone. I also took a digital camera (this would be harder for a large class) and did a closeup of each student's face (no body paranoia that way, lol), and inserted that into the spreadsheet later. Voila! Instant address book.
I am definately going to keep this in mind. In fact, I have orientation on the third of May and may mention it so some of my classmates then.
The new-mom student nurse-you watched in amazement as she kept plugging away through her pregnancy, feet swollen, gag reflexes intact during clinicals, she delievered the baby on Sunday and was back to lecture on Thursday, never misses a beat even though she sometimes has to prop her eyes open during class, no one minds the sour milk and baby powder smell that floats around her because she's always got a smile - she's a new mom and almost a new nurse! Lots to smile about.
We've got one of those now...she being induced this morning and will be back in class next week Truly amazing!!!! She looks so tired and I feel for her. I'm just glad the semsester's almost over...then she can spend the whole summer with her new little bundle!!
How about the student that was in for a semester last year but flunked out so he came back this year. He knows all about "colon resectionectomies", "comadon" (Coumadin), and "hot taps", even when the teacher has no clue what they are talking about. :rotfl:
Let's not forget the one who says "prostrate". And INSISTS that she's right. Last month we had to listen to a 10 minute report from her on "prostrate" cancer". Arg.
huh?
Truly amazing!!!! She looks so tired and I feel for her. I'm just glad the semsester's almost over...then she can spend the whole summer with her new little bundle!!
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Had a bunch of them in my A&P I three years ago and not one of them passed including one that was in my lab group. The other "older mom" and I did fine. :rotfl: