Things you would love to say to your fellow nursing students!

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Along the lines of the first thread, "Things you would love to say to your nursing instructors" I thought this would be a great thread to start. I've since graduated LVN but there was one main thing I wanted to say to some students in my class.

Will you people in the back row please stop talking! I swear that today I can still hear their motormouths running! :chuckle

When I am in the RN bridge I will come back and post some more. I'm sure some of you have something to get off your chest. Come on and unload here! :)

OMG did you not just hear the instructor tell us not once but twice to wear our maroons to that rotation!!

If you ask another WHAT IF question I am gonna stuff a dirty sock in ya mouth!!

NO it is not necessary to make a joke about everything your not at all funny!

DANG you have another question hummm maybe if you would just listen then you wouldn't have so many questions!! UGHHHH

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Specializes in Labor and Delivery.

I know is a little off topic. What I would like to say is that even though I've tried to keep to myself because I feel so much older then all of you, even though I'm only bout 5-6 years older, so many of you are so mature for your age (more then I was at that age), kind, and sweet. I'm glad I've met you, glad we're almost done with our second term, and hope we all graduate together :):redbeathe:nurse:

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OMG!!!! Please stop whinning about how you have it so hard and you can't study WHY!!!!!!!! You are staying with your parents ,no kids,husband or a job! Try to study with a 7 year old who will not take off his too little spiderman halloween costume from 3 years terrorizing the his 10 year old sister who just started her period and is hormonal not to mention the 4 year old cry baby and the 3 year old who is half way potty trained and brings me her poop in her hands because she couldn't make it to the potty in time and all this time the husband is on his Xbox 360 Live online playing battlefield 3 demo and has tuned everybody out and this is just one night out of 4 the other three nights I am at work from 7pm-7am as a tech on a pulmonary floor dodging luggies flying out of trachs for 12 hours.TRY STUDING THEN matter of fact lets trade then you can really see how hard it is to study you spoiled brats!!!!!! (MAN THAT FELT GOOD LMBO)

That was epic, LOL.

Note to self: Stay away from my classmates as much as humanly possible in nursing school.

And I dont understand why the instructors dont tell the students talking during lecture to shut the hell up. That baffles me.

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Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.
And I dont understand why the instructors dont tell the students talking during lecture to shut the hell up. That baffles me.

Because I'm busy in the front organising my thoughts and trying to make everything clear; the room is darkened so you can see the details in the photos I've put up so you can actually see the things I'm trying to describe; there are a lot of you and if when I am scanning the room I don't happen to see them talking at that precise moment I can't tell them to shut up. Most are talking just loud enough to bother the ones around them, not loud enough to interrupt me.

and, gee, I thought I was teaching adult learners. As a recent student and as an instructor, I would like to say: GROW UP! (not you Peds, just in general:D)

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LMAO!!! Ahhh ok, if you dont hear them that's one thing. But if Im teaching and people are having side conversations at the same time, and I know it, Im going to get very rude, very quickly. Its sad it has to be that way, but from what I'm reading in this thread, its happenning WAYYY too much. You'd hope they would be more mature than that, but it sure doesnt sound like alot of them are.

It sounds like you are a instructor.:up: Tell me, when students start going off on tangents talking about their personal family stories, taking up time, do you cut them short to stay on track? Not rudely, but at some point the teacher should probably say, "We have alot of material to cover, please keep all personal side stories to yourself till the end of class." If too much class time is being taken up with students giving personal stories about every illness, isnt it the teachers job to keep the class on track? From reading the thread, that seemed like another pretty common gripe.

Thanks!!:D

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I talk during class . . . constantly.

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Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.
Tell me, when students start going off on tangents talking about their personal family stories, taking up time, do you cut them short to stay on track? Not rudely, but at some point the teacher should probably say, "We have alot of material to cover, please keep all personal side stories to yourself till the end of class." If too much class time is being taken up with students giving personal stories about every illness, isnt it the teachers job to keep the class on track? From reading the thread, that seemed like another pretty common gripe.

Thanks!!:D

Lord yes. Mostly they don't because they haven't been allowed to get away with it. Never had to say "keep all....to yourself", I just say, "okay, lets keep going". The few personal stories I listen to have generally contributed to whatever I'm presenting as I freely admit I can't know everything about everything.

One student challanged what I was saying about a photo ppt, and was absolutely correct. Gave her a cookies and cream chocolate bar next class. To her, I say "thanks!"

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Specializes in Med-Surg/DOU/Ortho/Onc/Rehab/ER/.

Big pet peeve: You wonder why your failing and dont understand anything in lecture. Get off your phone and stop texting! I can't not sympathize with you when your priorities are: text friends first, school last. How you are going to make it through with this attitude is beyond me? And no, I will not study with you when you put school on the back burner. No I will not help you understand last weks material because you were to busy partying the whole weekend. Why do I get As? Because I study and work hard for them. Maybe you would to if you put more effort into learning then planning next weekends booze trip.

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Specializes in Psych, OB-GYN.

You are not a RN yet and it drives me crazy that you have RN on your badge reel and not one single instructor has said anything about it!

If you're talking in class and I turn around and snap at you, don't get upset because I didn't ask nicely. I'm not going to sweet talk you when you're doing something that a reasonable adult would realize is rude and inconsiderate.

Please shut up.

When we are told to read ahead or watch videos to prepare for a lab, please do so. I'm so tired of our instructors getting upset because majority of the class is blowing things off.

I appreciate test reviews, but I don't appreciate stupid students that can't follow directions. The instructor said there would be NO discussions about the questions as she reviewed the test, yet over 1/2 the class was making a lot of moans and groans. Then after the exam, a few even had the balls to walk to the front and continue to argue questions. I think you 7 should automatically fail because you clearly cannot follow SIMPLE directions.

Some of this stuff isn't really rocket science. I don't mind helping you, but I won't do stuff for you. Read the book, listen to the lectures, THEN ask me for help if you still need it.

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*Stop talking during class!! I paid 30K to be here and I want to hear what the hell the prof is saying!

*Flats are NOT appropriate footwear with scrubs...even if they are white!

*I am SOOO glad that you have made such great friends with the other students, but you really don't need to share chairs. There are plenty to go around.

*Gossiping in other languages is childish and unprofessional

*No, I don't want to let you practice injections on me....you NEVER pay attention!

*NO 'intramuscular injection' is not the generic name of the drug!

*I worked hard and spent time away from my family to study for that test, and when you and your friends cheat your way through, it ****** me off.

*Yes I got a good grade, and I worked REALLY hard for it. Im not going to apologize for trying.

*For God sakes, PULL YOUR HAIR UP! This is not a beauty contest, its clinicals!!

*I don't know how you have made it this long.

*I'm scarred for your patients.

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Specializes in Psychiatry, Forensics, Addictions.

I'm not here to make friends, I'm here to learn. If I happen to make friends along the way, that's fine, but not my main goal. If you don't like me, that's fine, too. I don't understand why you would pay all this tuition money to gossip, text, and not pay attention. Don't hate on me because I actually understand what's going on...I listened to the instructor.

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If you would control your mouth in class you would actually know when each assignment is due.

Stop calling me constantly to ask me if I did my assignments, if I have been studying, and when I get a good grade stop telling me well you studied. Duh, that's what you are supposed to do before u take a test,You study.

You chose to party all weekend when I told you a million times the research paper is due Monday, don't freaking call me at 1100pm for help, I will not help you. Not because I am mean but because you keep on doing this every time we have something due the next day.

Stop asking me what MI, CSF, ICP, or any other disease means. Technology is great right now, you can find everything on google, go use it. It takes 2 seconds to search.

Stop crying to your instructors about your failing grade, most importantly stop making up stories, no your child was not sick my dear, no your mom did not go to the hospital, no you were not sick bc just last night, you wrote all over your Facebook " going out to partyyyyy, yeah baby, it's gonna be fun, and you texted me that too. So now not only you are lying to an instructor, but now you just proved that your life is based on lying.

you have droped nursing classes, you failed nursing coorifices and now you are retaking the class with the same instructor and you are still barely passing? Wow, just wow. Haven't learned the lesson yet?

Stop staring at me, and no in my book it is not called too dressy if you wear a professional skirt and cardigan to class or jeans and a cute top, etc. It is called taking care of yourself. You don't know what dressy is. I love taking care of myself, I am young if I don't dress well now when am I going to take care of myself when I am 50 or 100. I am perfectly normal, you my dear are not. Stop wearing pjs to class, ewww, that's clearly lack of hygiene. I want to sit miles away from you.

When I ask you to go out for lunch or dinner, stop saying I am broke, I can't afford it, you are 26 you can't afford a freaking $10 burger and you work full time lol woooow.

I am not rich either, but I have enough money for food.

It annoys me so much when you say I only go clubbing I don't go out to restaurant etc, I ask you why? Your response is: bc I get free drinks duh, I meet guys there and they buy me drinks. Omg, I so want to say you are such a freaking low life, you are selling yourself for a freaking $8 max $ 30 shots? Even if I was broke, I would rather slide my credit card 1000000 times instead of using people, and selling myself to people for a drink. Even if you do such thing, at least don't freaking say it in front of the class, you are only proving that you are trashy.

I want to say thank you to the few 10 classmates that have helped me every time i needed help, you'll never be forgotten. Love you :)

I am not usually this mean, and I would never say this things to them bc I hate drama and I don't care too much about these people and I hope I never see this trashy people ever again lol, but reading some posts here reminded me of some people lol.

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