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! :)
Agreed with being in a classroom being with the same people 3 days a week, for 2+ years, it starts to get hostile. Not just women, but the men too, not just girls, but the 30/40/50 y/o acting like they're in high school with the cliques formed up - I'm serious. It's kinda hard to ignore nasty comments when they're being said out loud.
SHe's talking behind the other girl's back 'she is stupid I wanna kill her she should fail' and I'm sure someone's talking behind your back, and hers and his and theirs and mine !! - really, being nasty like that just shows everyone how miserable your life is, why trash talk constantly like that, is that your hobby? don't you have studying to do? We were taught to be non-judgemental first semester in class
And being too old doesn't mean you're slow and grumpy, being young does not make you clueless and stupid. :)
I have some for one particular pre-req...It was Intro to Bio and all these came from the same 40 or 50 something woman with kids going back to school (no judgement on moms going back to school...but keep reading)
1. "What's H2O2" - Student
"Hydrogen Peroxide" - Teacher
"What's it made of?" - Student
"Two Hydrogen and two Oxygen atoms" - Teacher
"And what does that make?" - Student
2. "So is that sperm a chromosome or an egg?"
A little later... "so that's the sperm egg then right?"
3. "How did all the dinosaurs become extinct?" ... "Did they live everywhere or just in America?" (we just finished talking about the continents merging and dividing.
From other pre-reqs along the way:
- to the person who comes in more that 15 minutes late EVERYDAY: You being late is rude, disrespectful, disruptive, and if you do that as a nurse, you'll get fired.
- to the person actually surprised be getting a 54 on your exam and broadcasting your astonishment to the class: You only bring a book to class, don't take notes, don't ask questions, call the professor "teach", and occasionally fall asleep. No one was surprised but you.
- to the person who works only 20 hours a week, has no kids and still complains that they have no time to study: I work a full time and part time job while doing the same classes. Lazy does not equal not enough time.
- to the people who also got accepted for the fall and are ******** about the math exam the first week. We're in a two year program to become nurses, giving someone the wrong amount of a medication and killing them is not tolerated, and it's okay for them to be strict about it.
You tell us how smart you are and how you work your ass off, but you can't show up to clinical or class on time EVER if you do show up at all. At least once in class you have to give a sob story of how hard your life is, which is why I'm guessing you haven't been kicked out yet. If you're so smart and work so hard, why do you barely pass every semester? Why isn't the hospital you work in even interviewing you for a GN position? You may have had people fooled the first year, but 70% of our class is sick of your sob stories, bragging, and nastiness you spew about everyone else as soon as their back is turned. You act like you know everything because you work one day a week in a hospital as a tech. You are not a doctor and not even a nurse yet, but you would probably perform surgery if given the chance. Stop it or you are going to kill someone! Oh, and please stop crying every class and clinical day because no one cares anymore.
WASH. YOUR. DANG. HANDS. You are not only a nursing student, but an adult. Why would you think it's okay to cough into your hands, especially in a hospital, and wipe it on your pants and not wash your hands? Why don't you know how to properly cover a cough? You are making us look bad.
Stop engaging the instructor in off topic conversation. It's bad enough she already has a tendency to tell stories relating to diseases of every Tom, Dick, and Harry she has ever come in contact with, don't make it worse by opening your yap just when there's a small semblance of hope that we're finally about to get back on track, and ruin it all with YOUR pointless story. I HATE STORY TIME. I left that crap back in elementary school. I'm there to learn, GET TO THE POINT, and get out.
For anyone reading this thread that has a tendency towards long stories in class, please STOP. Sure enough there is someone in your class like me, who does not give a damn and you are inflicting mental torture/cruel and unusual punishment. Stop being so selfish and shut it!
Just because someone does not have a job or children does not mean they have all the time in the world to study. If you want to keep comparing the fact that you have so much on your plate (children, a job, married), it's best you just find something else to do. Who cares! People have things to do in their lives besides school work (whether they have children or not). So stop judging people's lives.
Also, sometimes, you really are aiming to just pass at the end of the day. Whether with a 75 or more. Of course you may want higher, but it does not always work out like that. So to tell people to achieve more for themselves, leave them alone.
Your license will not show your test scores or gpa!! You got a 90 and someone got a 75, they can both be great nurses.
If you see a pt and something is "off" let a nurse know, anybody know, do not say that it not your patient. DO NOT let the pt code and say 20 mins after the event " oh I knew he was gonna code" to the other students. You looked like a jackass and it's not safe practice.
Stop with all the negativity. It's so easy to cut a person down, the hard thing is to help lift a person up.
Why are you always hiding to work on school work? Those hours should be made up, can you hear the call bells? Help the floor out. pry your butt off the chair once in a while, I may want to work here and you're making our school look bad.
Please stop mentioning your stress incontinence during every lecture. I have no idea how it relates to pneumonia or hepatitis and cannot imagine why on earth you thought it was appropriate to say during those lectures. Even the instructor said, "TMI" and ignored you after that. Please get the hint. P.S. I will never sit in a chair after you.
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Agreed with being in a classroom being with the same people 3 days a week, for 2+ years, it starts to get hostile. Not just women, but the men too, not just girls, but the 30/40/50 y/o acting like they're in high school with the cliques formed up - I'm serious. It's kinda hard to ignore nasty comments when they're being said out loud.
SHe's talking behind the other girl's back 'she is stupid I wanna kill her she should fail' and I'm sure someone's talking behind your back, and hers and his and theirs and mine !! - really, being nasty like that just shows everyone how miserable your life is, why trash talk constantly like that, is that your hobby? don't you have studying to do? We were taught to be non-judgemental first semester in class
And being too old doesn't mean you're slow and grumpy, being young does not make you clueless and stupid. :)