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! :)
I agree. I have had a student say that I am so smart and I look so calm when I work incredibly hard (we all do) it's just that it does not come easily for me so I have to really keep at it.........and then I have a very diffucult time keeping my emotions of fear under control. I may get an A, but t sure was not a smooth and easy thing to do. Lots of discomfort and anxiety.
This sounds exactly like me. I work hard to earn A's and I have this underlying fear and anxiety that does not go away. Once it was so severe that I only slept two hours per night for a month. It was pure exhaustion!
Group work means GROUP WORK!!! Don't answer all the questions and hand them to everyone else and then fold your arms, looking all smug. Yes you are a genius, but the point of collaborative work is to teach you to work as a which is a skill you will need to use throughout your career.
For heavens sake you can not cram over 10 months of work into one day
Our portfolios were due in yesterday by 4pm at latest.I spent yesterday morning tidying mine up, making sure it was in order,etc and i arrived at uni at 1pm to find a fair few classmates desperately trying to get the work done and printed off in time.
We had to have
4 summaries (which take an hour each)
4 domains (which take 2 hours each)
4 summaries (which take an hour each)
as well as a cv,contents page,clean copies of assignments
Why leave it to the day that its due in? i thought i was disorganised by finishing the contents page at 8am friday morning.
1) Don't ask a question that has been covered already... If you didn't get it the first seven times she went over it, you never are.
2) No, there is no extra credit and we will not be re-taking that test. Pull up your big girl panties and take the grade you earned.
3) Yes it is a fair question, it was in the reading. Look it up.
4) I am sorry, but I really do hope that you do flunk this class so I don't have to hear your voice anymore.
5) Yes, I understand that you came into the program with a 4.0, we all had good grades. Accept the fact that this is hard and you are doing the best you can. At least you are passing.
6) How the hell did you get into this program?
7) SHUT UP!! I am trying to listen to lecture and I know your stupid voice will block it out on my recorder and I will never get it.
8) BITE ME!!
9) Yes concept maps are long, get over it and do it.
10) Thank you for your support and time. Thank you for helping me through. You have been my shoulder to lean on, now lean on mine.
No one really cares how you do it as a CNA in the nursing home, we'd like to know how our instructor expects us to do it.
SHUT UP
See what the heck you've done (to the slackers who have abused the one allowed clinical absence per rotation to the point that the dean is thinking of taking it away completely, it was put there in case you wreck your car, have a fever and strept and need to be in bed.)
What I would like to say to fellow nursing students....
Must you call/text me ten minutes after grades are posted to find out what i got...every time??! its my business not yours!
do you really have nothing better to do than talk about other people? maybe if you spent less time doing that and more time studying, you WOULD get better grades than me :)
stop fighting with the teacher about what is right and wrong and what the text book says. I'd go with what he says because hes been doing this for a long time and he can fail your ass!
Stop acting like little Miss Know-It-All. When the teacher asks questions and you can't answer them, guess what, you don't know everything!!! And, to the same person, if I want clarification on one of the questions that I missed on the test, don't turn around and answer it for me! You missed a heck of a lot more questions than I did. Just stop is already!
And, to the person sitting next to me, please stop talking to me during class. I am not listening to a word you're saying but I don't want to be impolite. Just, be quiet, please!
How do you not know where your apical pulse site is?
Stop asking me what the instructor said to complete. I seem to have heard her just fine. I may be your floor partner for clinicals, but that doesn't mean we are married and share everything. I have my own work to do and I can't sit and explain what all these abbreviations, you should already know, mean.
If we're talking about contraception and STDs, I can guarantee you no one in the class wants to hear stories "from personal experience."
Stop complaining! So what? Nursing school is hard! Get over it. Pull up your britches, take a deep breath, and dive into the muck of studying and completing assignments. Telling me about how you slacked off over the weekend gets you no closer to finishing the task...
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This sounds exactly like me. I work hard to earn A's and I have this underlying fear and anxiety that does not go away. Once it was so severe that I only slept two hours per night for a month. It was pure exhaustion!