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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! :)
To my class: Love you all to pieces, thanks for keeping me sane throughout this crazy program, you are amazing and are going to be excellent nurses! (I'm going to miss you all though.)
To some of the other nursing students we occasionally have a class with: Grow up already! Stop talking nonstop, say something positive for once, show the teacher some respect, and show your fellow students some respect!
I would like to say how did you ever get in to nursing school....and how did you stay in? I would also like to say that when our instructors say that no questions are stupid.....well thats not true and when you ask stupid questions, well it makes you look stupid......
Oh and you don't need your gloves to do everything, you can introduce yourself to a patient....oh and even do there vitals without gloves on......Where did all these ger a phobes come from? Wash your hands.
I feel better now.
Do you all know that you are supposed to be caring, intelligent people?
I just found out something that really hurt. I just learned that our level 2 CI had a party at her house at the end of our Level 4 in December. She was giving a talk for her Master's project and needed an audience. I knew about it, while watching notes being quietly handed out and surreptitious looks, but I was deliberately excluded. Turns out I was the ONLY one not invited. It wasn't the instructor, but the class rep who hated my guts and for no reason.
Our group had an elaborate pinning and I did the majority of the fund-raising, 4 times as much money as anyone else and yet these people treated me like crap. I can list so many things I did to be helpful; starting email groups, free NCLEX review books, free palm pilot apps, heck I even arranged it so that 20 people got free palm pilots!!! I received very little thanks and a lot of scorn, yet I continued to work the system to provide as much support as I could. Everyone benefited from some little thing that I did.
People who I thought were my friends all knew about my being excluded and as you can imagine I feel hurt and betrayed. What a bitter, bitter feeling to leave school with and now I can only say how glad I am to be done and how do each of you live with yourselves? It begs the question, what kind of nurse will you be, and where are your ethics?
OMG! Are you in my study group! I have a person who comes and finds my study group prior to tests/quiz and wants to know what we thougt was important because she didn't study at all! She then actually brags about not studying and just listening to "others" before the tests. We have started to hide from her!
OK, I'm not going to try and defend this person, but I have to wonder if s/he might have a different learning style and need to hear/talk through the material.
"It's great you want to further your nursing career once you have graduated (nurse practitioner/anesthetist etc.), but constantly hearing you say 'I can't wait to get out of this and into something better' is so frustrating. You are only in your first year of school! This part of your career is going to get you where you want to be, so be grateful and stop being negative."
BabyLady, BSN, RN
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"yeah...like I'm taking advice from you!"