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! :)
4) To one specific young lady in my A&P class: I don't have to agree with you when you talk about what a crappy professor we have. You only hate him because he's tough. I love him. Yes, he did tell us that would be on the test, you were just too busy talking to the person next to you to notice. Thanks for then gossiping about me to the whole class. They all see you for who you are, a mean petty person. Thanks for dropping out at the last minute. It helped me get through finals not having to deal with you. (Boy, that felt good!)
Wow, this sounds exactly like a girl I had in my A&P II class last semester! She would come in with a new petition for everyone to sign every week to try and get our professor fired because he was "unfair" and taught our class at a "higher level than it should have been." Needless to say, no one ever signed her petitions and she dropped out 3/4 of the way into the semester because she was failing.I technically don't start Nursing school until the Fall, either, and really hope I don't have some of these issues! But I'll check back in after my first semester. :-)
I have a great class. And while I'm sure some dislike me, I'm not going to let that affect my overal opinion of our program. I'm not a competitive person, so don't feel the obligation to compete with me.
Please do not seek out the easiest patient assignment during clinicals (such as post-surgeries who are being discharged tomorrow morning, hospice patients on comfort care only, observation patients with no real orders, one day surgery patients admitted for pain management, etc) just so you can spend the shift being lazy. It is quite obvious that you actively search for the easy patients, and then quickly take them just in case anyone else wanted an easy assignment that night (which we do not; we are here to learn, not waste time). Also, at this point you should be taking at least two patients, if not three, so I'm tired of hearing how you, "just aren't comfortable with more than one patient." Maybe if you took a challenging assignment one night, you would develop some prioritization skills, and learn to juggle more than one patient at a time.
Also, when I have one ICU step-down patient and one patient with active brain and lung cancer, please do not barge into my rooms, interrupt my care, and ask that I come see your patient. I don't mind to help you, but I am not here to validate that the breath sounds you here are correct, that your manual BP is accurate, that your patient does look cyanotic, or that respirations of six per minute are a problem worth calling the RRT for.
When the monitor alarms in your patient's room (or in any patient's room) please go check it if you aren't busy. Do not ask me to stop charting my assessments and vital signs to go into a room and check a monitor because you don't want to. This also applies to the call bells. If a call bell rings, and you aren't busy, please answer it. If the monitor or call bell happens to be your patient, do not ignore it and force me to answer it for you.
Finally, you do not get the right to disappear into the break room for hours on end when nothing is happening, and then suddenly reappear when something exciting is going on. Do not get defensive when I perform a procedure on your patient because no one could find you. For example, you were downstairs in the snack room/cafeteria for an hour and your patient needed an IV restarted. Because we couldn't find you, I went in the room and started the IV on the first stick. When you came back, you were angry with me that I had touched your patient. Sorry, but you weren't in the room and the patient needed that line for their IV antibiotics. They have peritonitis from their ruptured appendix, but you wouldn't know that because you haven't read their chart all night.
1. I love learning! When I hear something that surprises and intrigues me, I will make a face that says so. Please forgive me. I get it from my dad, but he is 10x worse!
2. I will probably have one of the highest grades in the class. I am intelligent and older, two good reasons why. But I am not an information horder. I taught for five years, so I can't help but care if you succeed, too. I would probably help you with anything at any time if you ask.
3. Please forgive me for asking questions. Most of the time I will write down the questions I have and ask them later since I know your time is precious, but a few are bound to slip out.
4. Thanks in advance for what I am sure will be a very cool two years!
1) Ignoring emails is rude when you spend over 2/3 of your day on your iphone or facebook and can see it pop up. It is also ironic when you expect me to respond instantly when you waited until the last minute to decide to do your part of the group project and now demand my help.
2) No, I am not the greatest test taker out there. I get As and they may not be as high as your but I can whoop your butt when it comes to practical nursing skills and common sense.
3) If the professor calls on the class and I have an answer I will do so, but I don't know everything and really wish you would stop giving me those looks and whispering behind me. I'm not deaf, I'm not a know-it-all, and I don't read the book religiously as a bed-time story contrary to popular belief. Half the time I only raise my hand because she wont continue or will go on a long tangent about how no one did the reading so cut me some slack.
4) Yes, I'm older and more experienced than you. That does not mean I have cooties, can't relate, or am decrepit. I took the road less traveled.
5) I don't want to hear about your teenage angst. I don't care who is a bit**, why, or how. I don't care if mummy and daddy won't buy you the latest trend or that you actually have to *gasp* budget for once. Please please be quiet. I don't care if it is boring and you want to sleep through the class (as long as you don't snore) just shoosh so I can focus on learning the material.
PLEASE dont wash your lab coat, that is suppose to be white, with blue jeans! You show up to clinicals with a dingy, gray-blue lab coat and make yourself and the rest of us look unprofessional. I know you own a mirror!! Sheesh!
Please take the time to WASH your hair before clinicals!! Dont show up looking like a grease monkey!
PLEASE dont wash your lab coat, that is suppose to be white, with blue jeans! You show up to clinicals with a dingy, gray-blue lab coat and make yourself and the rest of us look unprofessional. I know you own a mirror!! Sheesh!
Please take the time to WASH your hair before clinicals!! Dont show up looking like a grease monkey!
I you must be in my class. I have someone EXACTLY like that in my clinical group.
* you are a pompous, know-nothing a$$. I cant wait to graduate JUST to get away from you!
*please stop talking so close to me, all in my personal space. Your breath ALWAYS stinks like old coffee. I cant count how many times, ive swallowed my own vom, trying to be polite...
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Vvalcourt
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Your shoes are meant to be "White" not grayish/white...... can u wipe/clean it once a week....