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! :)
it is shocking and frightening to see that we as student nurses have little respect for each other, i thought i was just where i am training at Coventry university in England, but form reading this forum i see that bad manners are practiced world wide. So much for the caring proffesion!!
When you spend the entire lecture time looking at your MySpace/Facebook/whatever that isn't class-related, or you sneak out 5 minutes after the instructor begins lecture hoping nobody will notice, and don't come back, DON'T look to me for sympathy when you fail your test (again).
Please stop trying to turn students against the instructor just because your "study" group doesn't study but gossips instead. Please read what you are supposed to read, watch the videos and do the homework instead of copying eachothers. Then you won't have to complain about the teacher "not teaching you" and your bad test scores.
Please stop interrupting the instructor to tell her she's wrong or challenge her, almost every lecture! YOU are wrong and it's not YOUR class. Just because you work at the hospital you don't know everything, even though you think and act like you do.
Please don't ask me how I did on every test, quiz and assignment. It's rude and my business.
Just because there is an online quiz doesn't mean that it is a group assisgnment - this isn't fair to students who actually have academic integrity!
And last, please don't start gossiping about other students/staff period! Especially right before the exam! I mean really? C'mon!
Wow, this is really nice to be able to share this! Thank you!
1. Why don't you try wearing a NEUTRAL colored bra under the WHITE uniform! Not polka dots, not brightly colored swirly ones, etc!! It looks SO unprofessional! If you aren't going to try that, DON'T complain EVERY week that "Maybe I should've worn a different bra...?" DUH!
2. If you are so upset that you aren't going to get to do all the same stuff as a nurse that you were allowed to do as a paramedic, then DON'T be a nurse! Go back to being a paramedic! And, just because you were a medic, doesn't mean you know everything. If you do, why don't you just go take the NCLEX right now??
3. If you are going to wander in to class late every day, Fine. I don't really care. But don't whine about how you were running so late because of this or that if you had time to stop for Starbucks or breakfast at McDonalds. Both are less than a block away from school, and your supposed delay wasn't after that!
4. PLEASE try to remember the stuff we learned last semester - ESPECIALLY basic anatomy! If you don't remember where the tonsils are that we all just learned about last semester for those who didn't already know ..... I feel for the patients you'll have someday! The teachers really don't have time to re-teach you every semester.
5. To those few that have been there for me through the tough times both in and out of school - thank you! I hope we always remain friends, and even if we move apart, know that I will never, ever forget you!
Specializes in Medical Surgical/Addiction/Mental Health.
1.I am sorry that you are not passing Med/Surg and Dosage Calculations; perhaps if you attended class more often, you wouldn't be in this predicament.
2.If you are going to use large vocabulary to impress someone, please use your word choices in their proper context.
3.No you cannot copy my notes because you seem to miss class every other day unless you're prepared to give me $50.00 for my time.
4.Listen, if I really wanted to hear about all of the drama in your lives, I would turn the television on to the Lifetime station!
5.Don't ask me for my help to only tell me what I am teaching you is wrong. I did get an A on the test, remember?
6.There is a distinct difference between saying what is on your mind and being downright rude. Please learn the difference between the two as I think you may run into problems when you find your first nursing job.
7.Don't be kind to my face and talk trash behind my back. If you don't like me, that's okay. I don't like you either.
8.I never knew an "outstanding nurse" was one who is socially ignorant.
9.Don't be upset with me because I don't work while in school. I knew I was going to go to nursing school six years ago. I started saving money then to help me get by while in school. It's not my fault that you weren't proactive in planning your education.
Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
To the group of girls in my patho class that I am praying read this,
You all mentioned you start the RN program this fall at the same time as me, thankfully someone talked me off the cliff after that,
If you girls would shut up long enough you would hear what our instructor is saying. Instead you have to keep asking questions that he just said. News flash, when he says FOCUS ON THIS FOR THE EXAM, **** and write down what he is saying. Waiting until he is done to then ask, "will this or that be on the exam" is annoying and I try hard not to chuck my note book at you.
He CLEARLY said that we can work on the case studies together but it needed to be your OWN WORK and your OWN ANSWERS so why are you whining that you got warned on your Case Study that you all were not to have the same exact answers. Yes there was only one correct answer, have the common sense to put it in your OWN WORDS that is what he meant.
If you have to ask if there is a way for you to learn to be compationate this is NOT THE JOB FOR YOU.
When he takes a vote on whether to have our test this week or next week STOP INSISTING TO HAVE IT AT THE LATER DATE BECAUSE YOU ARE SCARED OF TESTS. I want to test on the stuff fresh in my head, not wait 2 weeks down the road when we are already 4 chapters deep into a whole new body system that will not be on our test.
When you go to register for the nursing classes this fall, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE be on the opposite group as me. I don't know if I can be stuck in a group of 12 students when you girls will compromise 6 of them.
Do you really expect me to believe you now someone personally that has suffered from ever disease in the book?
Are you the instructor?
Do you need a wipe to clean the crap off your nose??
Don't constantly tell me how lucky I am that I am a SAHM and don't have to work. I have 4 children to take care of while going to school full time and have a husband that works out of state for 5 months of the year. I am not complaining by any means, this was my choice, but I am not lucky because you have to work and I don't. I do work, I just don't ever get to clock in and out. My job never ends!
Last but not least,
To the other girl that sits there and pops on and off the cap for her highlighter during the entire lecture can you knock it off before I take the marker and jab it in your eye!!!!! It's annoying and distracting and you need to find another non distracting way to take care of this hand fixation you have.
Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
it is shocking and frightening to see that we as student nurses have little respect for each other, i thought i was just where i am training at Coventry university in England, but form reading this forum i see that bad manners are practiced world wide. So much for the caring proffesion!!
Getting annoyed with fellow students that take away from the class you are paying a lot of money for because they are to lazy or petty or what not to do for themselves does not make one un-carring. We are human, we get frustrated and need to release that. I am an extremely caring person, I am human though and get upset and need to vent so that I can calm down and move on.
1. Don't ask the instructor to repeat things 5 different times because you were too busy talking when she was going over what's going to be on the exam. Shut up and listen for once!
2. Stop asking me how I did on my exam. I don't want to feel bad for you when I got an A and you have to go to remediation because you failed.
3. Just because you were a CNA, aide, or whatever.. doesn't give you the right to talk about every single freaking experience you've had, good or bad. While some stories/advice are funny, for the most part none of us really care and it just makes you look like a know it all.
4. To the few girls/guy in class I enjoy being around, thank you for being sane and staying drama free! Thumbs up to you!!
if you don't want to be here then just drop already. stop saying 'my mom won't let me'. grow a pair!:icon_roll
at the very least *please* stop saying that you're only here to kill time until you figure out what you want to do "when you grow up". the rest of us want to be here. we're (well most of us) are working hard to *stay* here. your spot should go to someone who'd appreciate it, imho.
and please... PLEASE stop saying i'm selfish because i won't help you study. you've already stated that you don't want to be here. why should i, who am doing the best i can to make sure *I* pass, work to try and help you pass when you so obviously don't care whether you pass or not, really.
stop thinking it's funny to get drunk every night and screw around with this gift you've fallen into. or at least stop talking to me about it :banghead:
I just started nursing school in January,and I already have something to say to someone.
1. Pay attention in class, and then you won't miss the professor saying that we are meeting in another building for Skills. Then you won't miss our skills demonstration because you were waiting outside the wrong classroom for everyone to show up!
2. Practice your skills, like everyone else does, so that you don't show up on the day of return demo in a panic, frantic for somebody to help you with your skills. We are all already nervous as it is.
3. Why would you assume that we don't need our skills bags on the day that we have our skills class??
4. Don't freak out and post on our discussion board about how some of us have already started on an assignment that isn't due for another month. I'm sorry we are "stressing you out" by being proactive in our work, but some of us like to get things over with and work ahead. Just turn it in when YOU'RE ready.
Whew! That's better! I'm sure I'll be back, though.
.thumb.jpg.5aa4d55557c0228e31b94de19666bbbb.jpg){kind=small}
:banghead:
lizzydawn
9 Posts
it is shocking and frightening to see that we as student nurses have little respect for each other, i thought i was just where i am training at Coventry university in England, but form reading this forum i see that bad manners are practiced world wide. So much for the caring proffesion!!