The most horrible things instuctor's say...

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What is the most horrible thing a nursing instructor has said to you as a student???

Here's some of mine...

"After reading your care plans I was wondering if someone had beaten you all with a STUPID stick"

Suck it up and put your "big girl panties" on!!

""From the looks of your exam scores I see that the nursing profession might be in danger!!"

My Fundamentals instructor in LPN school actually told our class on the very first day of school "I'm teaching because I'm burned out of nursing".

We just looked at each other, in the uneasy silence which followed. :uhoh21:

The story of our worst CI's! You nailed it...the ones with bad backs or other med probs were the worst. They didn't care about us, it was just another job. Thank the stars they were few and far between. Seems with the nursing shortage, they'll take anyone for a CI, just as long as they look good on paper.

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maybe the most horrible words i received would be when my prof told me:"you can do better than what you're doing.concentrate more on the patient than to yourself":sofahider

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maybe the most horrible words i received would be when my prof told me:"you can do better than what you're doing.concentrate more on the patient than to yourself":sofahider

i have to say that i don't think that it is a horrible thing to say...it seems like constructive criticism to me. it is also advice that many of us could take.

kris

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HOLY MOSES!!!!!!!!!!!! You think those comments were bad, wait til you hear all the awful comments my nursing instructor made to me.

  1. "I am not smart enough to help you."
  2. "You shouldn't be a nurse."
  3. "Everyone else in this clinical group understands this concept, and you don't."
  4. Here is what she said when teaching me how to administer subcutaneous shots, "In general, for thin people, we administer a subcutaneous shot at a 45 degree angle, however if the person is obese, then we stick them at 90 degrees. For a person your size, I would definitely stick you at 90 degrees, because you are not thin."

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During our first week of nursing school, one of the site coordinators for our program looked back at us as we walked down the hall laughing and smiling. She stated to the other instructors, "Look at them smiling. They won't have anything to smile about by the end of this program." I'm happy to report we were all smiling at the end of the program except for the four students she lost from her site! :)

I figure that will come back to bite her someday. At our graduation ceremony, I walked across the stage with a HUGE smile on my face. Officially finish and graduate tomorrow!!!!

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Specializes in New Graduate.

Haha oh wow...here we go...

Psych instructor who requested all students fill out a card listing any psychological problems they had/concerns about psych nursing that might interfere with the course, promised they would be confidential, and then at the end of orientation went through the cards one by one, and holding them out in front of her so the names were clearly visable.

Same instructor telling the students to stand up, and turn around, picking out a student who was well endowed, telling her to stand up by herself and then asking the whole class to name what body part she needed to cover up better.

I had tonsillitis for the first time in my life and was hoorifice during med-surg class., My med-surg instructor decided that I needed surgery. What was more, I had better call the surgeon and schedule it in the next couple weeks or else I would miss too much class and might fail out. When I assured her it wasn't that bad, she told me that I needed to get my priorities in order and schedule the surgery, and that as a nursing student I needed to become more responsible. No joke.

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Specializes in PICU.

"MS is a disease that won't kill you, it will just make you wish you were dead." ~Said in front of my friend with MS.

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We had one where one of the nicer things she said to a student was "the lights on but nobody's home". This is also the same instructor who had 3 people pass a medications giving exam. Numerous complaints were made, amazingly next semester she was gone -although don't know whether was sacked or resigned.

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Specializes in IMCU.
HOLY MOSES!!!!!!!!!!!! You think those comments were bad, wait til you hear all the awful comments my nursing instructor made to me.

  1. "I am not smart enough to help you."
  2. "You shouldn't be a nurse."
  3. "Everyone else in this clinical group understands this concept, and you don't."
  4. Here is what she said when teaching me how to administer subcutaneous shots, "In general, for thin people, we administer a subcutaneous shot at a 45 degree angle, however if the person is obese, then we stick them at 90 degrees. For a person your size, I would definitely stick you at 90 degrees, because you are not thin."

Blinking heck! Some people have no filter and no clue!

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Specializes in IMCU.

You guys are freaking the crud out of me!

I am hopeful though. Just had orientation and met four of the instructors. They seemed very solid, well grounded (even nice), mid-westerners.

Then again, I suppose anyone can, fake it for a couple of days.

I guess I had better bring my tin hat, flak jacket and iron panties for clinicals. Yikes!

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

Geez, if I wasn't so generally oblivious to criticism I might be afraid to go to nursing school after reading this thread.

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The head of our nursing program told us during orientation to look left and then look right... the people sitting next to us would most likely not make it through the program.

We were told if we worked during school, we would fail.

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