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! :)
Please for the love of god shower before clinical!! I dry heave when you walk by me and I can't stand to be in that tiny room with it smelling like mold and BO! It's not rocket science.
-Congratulations on having X children, I unlike you did not start breeding as much as possible in my early adulthood - and I don't really care how much work it is and how hard or worse you have it than I do, you chose to have them one way or another - deal with it.
-I don't have to work, you know why? military pays me to do what I do, so don't sit there and say how easy I have it when you have NO idea what i've had to do to get what I have - it's not all candy canes and lollipops like you think, if you want what I have, sign your soul away.
-Don't ask me what I got on every test, you only want to compare and or rub your ONE OR TWO POINTS MORE in my face - which is pathetic
-Stop standing around in the halls at clinical or bothering me when i'm studying my chart - I don't care if you're bored because your patient is 'easy' or you know everything because you've been a CNA for 100 years. You are wasting my time and my patients time.
-SHUT UP about your kids in lecture, is it really something to be proud of that every member of your family, specifically your children, suffer from every disease in a pathophysiology book to some degree?!? I'm gonna take a previous posters advice and start talking about my cats and their allergic reactions to various cat chows.
-Boo hoo, you didn't do as well on the test as you thought, huh, what a surprise, didn't you say you went out clubbing this weekend?
- DO NOT CALL ME ONE HOUR BEFORE CLASS to try to get me to go over your ENTIRE case study while i'm trying to use my precious minutes to get CLEAN and DRESSED.
-If I share case study / homework / lecture information with you but you do not reciprocate or if you have secret bonds / pacts with people and share my work with them without my permission, you are cut off, so don't get upset when I won't work with you anymore. Also, don't lie and say you sent me something, certain emails don't get lost in a ******* vortex and disappear while ones involving you asking me questions fill my inbox.
-Please stop hogging our clinical instructor so you can wow her with BS knowledge over something trivial - meanwhile my pt is abd pain 9/10 in tears needs some IVP narcs and I have to wait til you shut it for a moment to interject. As well, don't dare call me rude for doing so, it makes me want to throw you out the window for being ignorant.
-Stop going to the teacher during the test to try and get test questions answered for you, maybe you should have read the book.
-No i'm not a genious, I LERNED 2 RAED IN SKOOL LOLZ, if you read assigned material, you might know a thing or two.
-Don't tell me BS sob stories to get my homework since you neglected your responsibilities. ESPECIALLY after the time you copied me WORD FOR WORD on that diagnosis I told you NOT TO USE - then lie and say you didn't (dude, I read your paper).
-No I will not come in early to tutor you, I don't want to study with you, you know NOTHING at all, and I have to go back to the stone ages of my knowledge to catch you up.
-No i'm not a jerk, I expect the same respect every other person does, when you don't give me due respect, expect to hear about it, and yes, I will always remember what you say / do. You don't know the first thing about me or my life - and I don't expect or want you to, that's my business.
That's two semesters of venting, and if it sounds harsh, spend a day in my shoes.
Specializes in Community & Mental Health, Sp Ed nursing.
Don't get ****** and call me a racist when you don't have the courtesy to talk to me about a project I have worked on for 4 months before sticking your grubby mitts in and screwing it up. No one gets away with that, no one, I don't care what you look like.
I don't care how old you are. You made it into a program that took no one who had less than a 3.96, that is respectable. That being said, don't tell me you are in your early fifties when you are clearly pushing 70. I have a mother and a grandmother and I know which one the back of your neck and the tops of your hands resemble. Be proud of your life and own up to it. So what if you can barely walk and have to ask the teacher to repeat most things she says. You somehow got the GPA so you must have it together, right?
I doubt ointment and tape are a miracle and you must be suffering from dementia if you think that story is true.
I don't care if you are a cna, r.t., emt, we are all here to learn and not to hear tales from your summer job.
Get laid every once in a while, you might be more likeable :)
You are in nursing school because you want to be a doctor. Huh. I remember some of the crazy things I thought at 19, so I won't hold it against you.
Newsflash, all the teachers are female and all the male students are married. So why all the cleavage? I don't really need to see it, put on a hoodie.
No need to giggle and flirt. He's married, just act human.
How did you get so organized? Please help me!
Don't argue with the teachers.
Get some exercise, it's great for stress relief.
Get your BP checked, your face is bright red and it's distracting me.
Be less uptight please.
If you can't lift the textbook how do you expect to work with patients.
Let's have fun while we learn, it's not a competition anymore!
wether or not I like you, I hope to see you all on graduation day:nurse:
1.) I made it into nursing school on my own merits, not because I have a member. Stop trying to insinuate otherwise.
2.) Stop with all the "what if" questions. I could understand if they even remotely had any bearing on the material we are going over. I would not be surprised if you said, "What if aliens attacked and vaporized all my sterile equipment, then what would I do?" Nursing is not something you can flowchart, learn to think on your own.
3.) We just learned about how silence can be a therapeutic communication technique, kindly try and follow it. I seriously cannot handle another 2 years of hearing you yap on and on about diseases in your family. Also, I can't stand to hear anymore of your motivational stories during lecture. Write a book. You could call it, "Chicken Soup for the D+ Nursing Student"
4.) I do not want to get to know you, stop trying to invite me into your inner circle. First, you gossip about everybody and I’ve heard you talk about me on occasion. If backbiting is going to be a hobby for you, it might be time to learn just how far the human ear can hear with acuity. Learn to develop a professional relationship with your classmates. I’m friendly, even eager to help, but I’m not sharing my personal life with you, you’re creepy and have a big mouth.
5.) Please stop complaining about the instructors while in the classroom. They are some of the most kindhearted, caring people I have ever known. But more importantly, their office is 8 feet away and this building has a drop ceiling. They hear EVERY word.
6.) I’m not your personal day planner. Stop asking me what assignments are due. It’s in the syllabus and I don’t think you can write a 600 word paper on cultures in the next 5 and half minutes.
7.) Stop asking me, “What diet are you on?”, and then just blowing me off when I say, “A balanced diet with about 1 hour of cardio a day.” You expect me to reveal some kind of inner dietary secret that will enable you to eat whatever you want and lose weight. I’d tell you that I eat 2 cups of spoiled cottage cheese everyday and rub my ass against the bark of a fresh pine tree if that would shut you up, but I’m afraid you’d come in the next day with diarrhea and splinters in your butt.
8.) I admire your gall. You come in at least 30 minutes late every day, usually carrying a bag of McDonald’s food in one hand, and a Starbucks coffee in the other, and loudly announce, “What did I miss?” You then expect the instructor to give you the reader’s digest version of the last 30 minutes of lecture. I smile a little at your anger when she doesn’t.
"We just learned about how silence can be a therapeutic communication technique, kindly try and follow it. I seriously cannot handle another 2 years of hearing you yap on and on about diseases in your family. Also, I can't stand to hear anymore of your motivational stories during lecture. Write a book. You could call it, "Chicken Soup for the D+ Nursing Student"
I do not want to get to know you, stop trying to invite me into your inner circle. First, you gossip about everybody and I’ve heard you talk about me on occasion. If backbiting is going to be a hobby for you, it might be time to learn just how far the human ear can hear with acuity. Learn to develop a professional relationship with your classmates. I’m friendly, even eager to help, but I’m not sharing my personal life with you, you’re creepy and have a big mouth.
Stop asking me, “What diet are you on?”, and then just blowing me off when I say, “A balanced diet with about 1 hour of cardio a day.” You expect me to reveal some kind of inner dietary secret that will enable you to eat whatever you want and lose weight. I’d tell you that I eat 2 cups of spoiled cottage cheese everyday and rub my ass against the bark of a fresh pine tree if that would shut you up, but I’m afraid you’d come in the next day with diarrhea and splinters in your butt."
1. Learn to read. Please. I'm deathly tired of you sitting two feet away and leaning over every three minutes to ask me 'what page are we on? what chapter is this?' when the instructor has said it five or six times already. Stop talking to me, listen when she talks and read along like the rest of us.
2. I don't care that you smoke, go nuts. Continue doing it. By all means, the whole group of you keep it up. Just stop complaining that it's cold and the school has nowhere warm to smoke. IT'S A SCHOOL. THEY CAN'T. If you don't LIKE being cold, stop smoking at school. You're only here five or so a day, three days a week, you can surely wait that long for a nic fix. Oh, and stop crowding around me when you get back to class. I hate the smell of your cigarettes.
3. Stop with the whining about the teachers. Seriously. I have never heard a more vocal bunch of silly complaints about nothing - NOTHING - in my life. 'i can't stand her powerpoints, why does she just read from a book, i don't get this subject but she spent no time on it - she's a terrible teacher'...have you ever considered, you know, constructively bringing this up with the teacher rather than just constantly rehashing the statements to students? And no, I don't mean doing what was done last semester and calling a teacher out in class, angrily piling comments on her. I said constructive, not with extreme prejudice.
4. Yes, there's assignments due. Some are due soon. I know you wrote them down in your planner at the beginning of the semester, you were sitting next to me when you did it. It isn't my fault you have since lost the planner and I'm not responsible for telling you when they are due. Please get your act together, this kind of thing is not going to fly with patient charts in the field.
Please stop inturrupting lecture to add some story about how such and such family member had said condition. We don't care. You're slowing down my learning process by adding stuff that is irrelavent. And no, you are not an expert because supposedly Uncle so so so had x
The way you brag about how the guy who killed your family member was the last exucution by Gov. K is disgusting. It makes you look like you lack humanity. It's not cool. It's a horrible, sad chapter for many people so quit talking about it as if it were a sporting event. And for the record, no one actually believes you when you say you witnesed it. If you actually had, and continued to brag about it the way you do, it really would mean you were a disgusting human being.
We all know you're so smart and that you have two other careers going while in nursing school, and that if x job offered you a better position you'd leave nursing school altogether. Why don't you then? Your heart obviously isn't in nursing.
Our patients aren't all deaf and 5yrs old so please stop talking to them as if they are. Have a little respect.
I think it's hilarious that you got stuck with so and so for clinicals. It drives you crazy that she tries to do all the new skills first and is pushy and dominating. Now you know how we feel when we get stuck with you.
Finally, you are not a nurse yet. You have a HUGE amount left to learn, but the fact that you think you're smarter than our MSN instructors shows how ignorant you are. You should have some fear as a brand new nursing student because we have a long way to go. The fact that you went ahead and started to do all the treatments on the floor without batting an eye, because the nurse (who told us she's been on probation by the BON) said we should is scary. Sorry, but I'm not willing to get kicked out of nursing school for giving meds and doing invasive procedures before I'm allowed to. Hate me if you want, but I'm glad I called our instructor so you couldn't continue and risk the patients wellbeing.
**sorry, I know I sound like a witch, but I'm pretty sick of this student. I'm one of those people who is professional and respectful, but it doesn't mean I like you.
I don't care that you are breastfeeding. You chose to have a child and do nursing school at the same time. The kid isn't on your breast 24/7 do the work we have to share.
2) Stop showing up to exams late. It's distracting to me and other people who have the decency to show up at 6 when it starts not 630 when it's half over and you want more time.
3) Wash those stupid scrub pants you wear everyday. I don't care you are a CT tech. It's not a nurse hence why you are here.
4) Stop asking me what I got on my exam. I studied you didn't thus you failed.
5) Don't blame the instructor for your failure on the exam. Just because she's using a different style of teaching. A month before the semester is over is not the time to whine about it.
6) Learn your drugs before showing up to clinical. A blood thinner and a diuretic are not the same and sure as heck aren't administered the same.
7) We're all tired. Don't show up to clinical and tell me you worked a 12 hr nite shift last nite and now you're going to do an 8 hour clinical day. I will tell the instructor you're a danger to patients.
4) Stop asking me what I got on my exam. I studied you didn't thus you failed.
I know you are just venting and all that, and every circumstance is different, but it's really starting to bug me how everyone seems to think that just because someone did not pass, it obviously means he or she did not study. There are so, so many brilliant people in my program, who study their butts off, yet are struggling to get by.
One classmate, in particular, used to make 95-100% when everyone else was failing around her. Now she is the one hanging on by her fingernails. And you cannot base it on her not studying, she can answer any question and give excellent rationales and prioritize like she was born doing the NCLEX. But for some odd reason she is having a difficult time when it comes to taking the actual tests this semester. (Text anxiety, maybe?) And I also know a medical doctor (honest to goodness M.D. who wanted to become a nurse instead) who failed out of our program--and he was the one who tutored me! I for sure and certain would have bombed that final if not for him, and yet somehow he fell short by 2 points.
On the flip side, I also know a few people who brag about never having to study, yet they get A's every time.
Anyhow, the point is, nursing school is hard, and there are dozens of reasons why people do or do not do well on exams. So you passed (yay for you), but don't look down on those who didn't. And don't automatically attribute their struggle to lack of studying or lack of knowledge.
msjack
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Please for the love of god shower before clinical!! I dry heave when you walk by me and I can't stand to be in that tiny room with it smelling like mold and BO! It's not rocket science.
Stop dipping during clinical...it's disgusting.
Stop beating the poor dead horse on X subject.