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 the group of girls in my patho class that I am praying read this,
....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!....
Amen to that! I am a SAHM right now also. I was working, but got laid off before school started and couldn't find another job that would deal wiht my school schedule - not with the economy the way it is now and plenty of people who have open availability ya know? Anyway, I feel for you. I only have one child (a toddler) and a husband who wokrs locally but doesn't help much. He's just another mouth to feed and person to clean up after.... I commend you for being able to find time to study with FOUR kids! :) You keep up the good work, and know that there are people out here who understand that your job as a mother is never done, and you are correct - you never get to clock out and take a break.
And, I now have another one! Ugh! Sometimes people just don't quit annoying you do they?! LOL.
Please don't get upset because I don't want to start a study group with you guys. We all "Studied" once and ended up not getting any real studying done because of all the chit-chatting. Other times I've tried to study with people it has ended up the same way. It just isn't conducive to my learning style, that is all. I love you guys, and I love to hang out and chit-chat, but there is a time for that and a time for studying.
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Thank You, it for sure isn't easy, mine are almost 13, 9, 7 and my daughter will be 2 in 10 days. When my husband is home he is no help either. I can't tell you though how many times I have been told that I was lucky because all I had to do was stay home with my kids and not work :banghead:
A certain person in my AP II class has to comment on every darn power point slide the Professor presents. Every slide I am thinking " please dont say anything", but before Professor proceeds to next slide, said person opens mouth. I do not know why because everything said person says is ridiculous. Driving me up the wall!!! Professor tries to be polite, but also tries to convey in a professional manner that we need to get on with discussion! I am sending thoughts that said person will be happy just to sit quietly in lecture and let us all get on to the next slide!!:smackingf:selfbonk::scrm::spbox: The other day said person asked professor if RH blood was monkey blood!!!:lghmky:
Thank You, it for sure isn't easy, mine are almost 13, 9, 7 and my daughter will be 2 in 10 days. When my husband is home he is no help either. I can't tell you though how many times I have been told that I was lucky because all I had to do was stay home with my kids and not work :banghead:
I wish you the best of luck!
My daughter is 18 and 1/2 months, and she has already begun the terrible two's! Temper tantrums abound! She is talking A LOT and a little advanced for her 18.5 months, LOL. I cannot imagine having four of them! LOL. Sometimes I wish my hubby weren't home - sometimes he just gets in teh way and creates more work for me! Right now, I am out of town and he has the baby. I am hoping when I get home he has a newfound appreciation for what I go through on a daily basis. He may work 50+ hours a week, but I spend just as much time on school, homework and studying, plus I have to pick up the baby all but one day a week from daycare and get her fed, bathed and played with and off to bed. I TOTALLY empathize with you!
I have a few people in class that have had every disease, test and complication known to man. (or they know someone who did) I don't care. Talk to the instructor AFTER class, not mid-lecture. I don't want to be mean, but it's the same people all of the time and the lecture either gets rushed or runs late.
Please check your hair! You look like Paltrow out of "There's Something About Mary"! I am not one to judge but it gets in the way of the PP when you sit in front of me! And to the same person, please stop crying everyday because you can't feel a pulse, check a BP or get a respiration. If you spent the time actually trying to get these skills instead of crying...you could probably get the skills down.
To my school...figure it out already! I don't want to hear, we're changing this, again. I want to hear this is the way it is, this is what you have to do and this is how you are going to make it. Nursing school is my hopes, dreams and future. You are killing these for me.
Please do not brag about how you did not open a book, but once again was able to get that "A" on our nursing exam. Hmmm.... wonder how that happened? Or, if it really did happen? LOL... (who cares anyways)
Also,please do not make me part of the "chain call" after nursing exams to see what my grade was, when you have never bother calling me for any other reason.
Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
My daughter is 18 and 1/2 months, and she has already begun the terrible two's! Temper tantrums abound! She is talking A LOT and a little advanced for her 18.5 months, LOL. I cannot imagine having four of them! LOL. Sometimes I wish my hubby weren't home - sometimes he just gets in teh way and creates more work for me! Right now, I am out of town and he has the baby. I am hoping when I get home he has a newfound appreciation for what I go through on a daily basis. He may work 50+ hours a week, but I spend just as much time on school, homework and studying, plus I have to pick up the baby all but one day a week from daycare and get her fed, bathed and played with and off to bed. I TOTALLY empathize with you!
I completely get the husband thing, if I would have had my daughter first I would have stopped with one kid LOL, I wanted a girl but man I am so glad I only got one of them. She has been in the terrible two's since 6 months and all this attitude and high pitch and screams is so foreign to me. It sounds like you are well on your way though.
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LoneWolfRN2010
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Amen to that! I am a SAHM right now also. I was working, but got laid off before school started and couldn't find another job that would deal wiht my school schedule - not with the economy the way it is now and plenty of people who have open availability ya know? Anyway, I feel for you. I only have one child (a toddler) and a husband who wokrs locally but doesn't help much. He's just another mouth to feed and person to clean up after.... I commend you for being able to find time to study with FOUR kids! :) You keep up the good work, and know that there are people out here who understand that your job as a mother is never done, and you are correct - you never get to clock out and take a break.
And, I now have another one! Ugh! Sometimes people just don't quit annoying you do they?! LOL.
Please don't get upset because I don't want to start a study group with you guys. We all "Studied" once and ended up not getting any real studying done because of all the chit-chatting. Other times I've tried to study with people it has ended up the same way. It just isn't conducive to my learning style, that is all. I love you guys, and I love to hang out and chit-chat, but there is a time for that and a time for studying.