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! :)
1. Don't underestimate me. It's rude. When discussing who may or may not have benchmarked on HESI don't immediately count me out.
2. Don't treat me like a **** just because I like to hang out with the guy you are dating. I was friends with him before you met and at least I have the sense not to sleep with classmates.
3. I love my "murses". All of you completely make my day and It's refreshing to talk to the guys when you are constantly surrounded by women.
4. You would make an excellent nurse, don't let one bad exam ruin your confidence.
5. I understand that you think I am brash and inappropriate at times, but get to know me before you discuss my personality flaws with others.
Ohhhh I have several...some of these people have failed out now or have been removed already thank goodness because I don't think I could do it without becoming a patient on the psych ward instead of doing clinical there.
1. That audio we listened to that is a simulation to what schzophrenics experience?? Yeah...that is what it is like for me listening to you talk during lecture..>SHUT UP.
2. Filling out a scantron is not rocket science. We KNOW why your bubbles are too big and dark. We know that you are erasing/changing your answers when you get the test back so it looks like you got it correct, the scantron did not "read" it wrong...you cheated!
3. We do not CARE why you left the last school. We know that you were probably asked to leave, just like you have been here too. We also don't care if you didn't like the last school's program, and telling us "Never go to such and such school" is probably the stupidist thing to say to those that are already in a nursing school.
4. If you want to know what my answer was on a test while discussing it after, and you don't agree...don't tell me I'm wrong, because chances are, if I KNOW I got it right...then I got it right. I will tell you if I am not positive...besides why are you asking me if you are so sure your answer was right?
5. Are you seriously going to want sympathy because you were out partying the night before a test you blew???
6. Since I am a single mom, I don't have the luxury of being able to just go out on the spur of the moment drinking...Dont give me crud and try to influence me otherwise. On the same subject, we are in this together, but if I can't go out and celebrate your birthday, doesn't mean I don't care.
7. I realize you have cultural differences, but when you approach me to practice listening to my apical, don't just molest my breast without asking!!! On the cultural thing...please for the love of God...don't envade my personal space, or be nosey when I am checking my grades on the computer....FINALLY please please PLEASE listen to the teacher's full sentence before saying "for example??"..because chances are, she is saying her example while you are saying this.
8. When CI says on the first day to never be late, and you are late the second day...and are reminded...Then finally on the third day you are 45 minutes late on the floor...Take the hint..You will be failed. Oh yeah...don't be surprised by all your lateness and stupidness...you get the first IV...Don't be surprised if your classmates are ticked!
1. Stop crying because you can barley pass an exam and start studying.
2. No, C doesn't equal RN. C equals a poor nursing student who will probably be stopped by the HESI E2 or NCLEX.
3. Stop hating because I have a 4.0.
4. Nobody cares that you are a PCA or how they do something at "your" hospital.
5. Stop telling everyone how you didn't even study so you don't care that you got a C on the exam. We can see right through it, you did study. Your just stupid!
OMG, just because someone does not make good grades, does not mean that they will not make a great nurse. Calling people stupid is kinda mean! I have seen many a students who had C's and barely pass through school go on to make the best nurses I have know. You know why, they have a great bed side manner along with a great personality. I don't mean this in a nasty way, everyone is entitled to their opinions. But a 4.0 does not mean squat when your in the real world. And I know because I had a 4.0, and they don't look at that when they hire you.
1. Don't complain about that 1 question you think you should get right, after all your 92 grade will not be changed much by becoming a 94. After all even YOU said that you didn't even study.
2. Don't get upset with me because I won't tell you MY grade (even though it was a good one). It's my personal grade. Then don't proceed to get mad at me and call me competitive. After all YOU asked ME!
3. Don't think because you can reiterate what the book says (while being open in front of you during lecture) makes you smart. We all can read.
4. Don't complain about how horrible our city is and how pathetic our program is, just go back to where you came from if we are so despicable. It's bad enough you try to bring us down, but there was probably someone who would be infinitely more appreciative of the spot you took.
5. NO, I will not give you my old care plan, I don't care if it's the same patient but you're taking care of him this week. Do the work yourself!!!
1. Its probably my fault for being honest in the first place...but lying through your teeth about validation, your care plan, and your clinicals when you stayed at home because you had a "panic attack" is just not cool. Sure I know you're embarrassed (provided it was real) and I wouldn't want to go projecting that sort of information- but when you know what I've been through and I revealed my own little breakdown at clinicals, I feel somewhat betrayed...
Get off your high horse and be willing to admit you have a problem. After that- get some help.
2. I know you have thoughts about being a doctor- I support it wholeheartedly. But don't you dare chose nursing because you thought it would be an easy way to get a bachelors and some health care experience...you're finding that its not so easy now is it? Just wait till you get a code...
3. For the love of god stop answering the questions I'm asking the teacher in lecture! I didn't pay my hard earned money to listen to you tell me everything you know about nursing. And when I call you out in front of the class don't think that I'm going to apologize- its my turn to learn.
1. I don't understand why you have to gossip about me in front of me and the teacher. That's not right-she even told you to quit it. Keep it to yourself, or at least wait until I'm out of earshot. Thankyouverymuch.
2. Thanks for being such a great friend. I love the fact that you are always there for me. You will make a great nurse!
3. Just because you share your grade with me does not mean I am willing to share mine.
4. Please do not complain how you had no idea what to study for the test when we were reminded many times by the instructor herself. Just because you didn't bother to listen to what she said should not undermine how hard the rest of us worked to get our grades.
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! :)
OMG! I think sometimes I have bionic hearing. And I heard EVERYTHING....aaaagghhhh! I have a few months to recuperate before year 2. At the end I thought for sure there was going to be an all-out war between the talkers and the shush-ers.
Please stop complaining about the clinical site being too far of a drive, and stop using that as an excuse for why you never get there on time. Common sense should tell you that if you are consistantly 10 minutes late, you need to get out of bed 10 minutes earlier. And no, it is not the responsibility of the school to find a clinical site that is closer to your house.
When you are my partner and we are giving a patient care, please do not undermine me and badger me about every single thing that we do. And when I tell you that you shouldn't attempt to give a patient with DVT a calf massage, please do not ask me what the heck DVT is while you continue to do so. While we are on the subject, making sexist comments and saying that I am going to give the patient a "happy ending" after his bed bath is not only offensive to me, it's probobly offensive to the patient who has pictures of his recently deceased wife all over his room. And do not comment on the "gnarly" smell of his bowel movements while you are cleaning them-he is immobile, not deaf.
I don't care if you have been a CNA for 57 years, you are not a nurse. Just because they taught you something different in your CNA class 57 years ago doesn't mean you are right and the instructor is wrong, so stop arguing with her.
You know those things that they give us on the first day of school with all the pages and words in them? Those are called our textbooks. Read them.
I don't care why so-and-so dropped out, or if whosiwhatsis is pregnant and planning on getting an abortion and that's why she failed the last 2 tests. It's none of my business how anyone else is doing in this class, and it's none of yours either.
When I say I'm not hungry after I just changed a dressing on a stage 4 pressure ulcer, it's not because I "can't handle" nursing. It's because I don't feel like eating my roast beef sandwich 5 minutes after cleaning necrotic tissue off of someones body.
When you are in the hospital, and your nurse is getting ready to administer a potassium chloride injection, do you want the theraputic dose or the death row dose? Yes, we really do need to know math.
(And, to all of the students who realize that this is nursing school, not high school, and who offer their help and support when I am struggling, to those who genuinely care and are passionate about what we are learning...thank you for restoring some of my faith in humanity and I can't wait to see you all at the finish line! :heartbeat)
1. "I got up at 4 am this morning to get to this clinical by 6 am, after being on the floor for 7 to 8 hours-I am ready to go home. In post-conference I do not care that the patient's mother's cousin's sister's aughter had a history of hypertension when the kid is in the hospital for r/o sepsis."
2. "I don't care if you cat had seizures and you take 15 minutes in post conference telling us about it."
3. "Why are you spending so much time reading the patient's chart and nursing textbooks during clinicals, so much time that you are not completing your patient care and assessments on time, making all of us stay late on the unit?"
4. "If you haven't spoken to me in the last two years, not even returning a good morning (and we are in the same clinicals), why should I take time out and help you with your careplan?"
But to the wonderful people that became my friends, I would have to tell them thank you for the support. I appreciate you all encouraging me when I doubted myself or my abilities, thank you for cheering me on when I accomplished my goals and I know that we will be friends for life.
1. To the ones that talk through EVERY lecture the entire time...Shut the heck up! I came for the lecture not your gossip. What are you in junior high?
2. I don't care if you don't study - I do. I don't care that you only need a C to pass, I want more. Yes, I do well on tests, and no I'm not ashamed of it.
3. Yes I do well on tests -and guess what, according to my instructors - who have been nurses longer than you have been alive - I'm also one of the best clinical students they have ever had. So shut the heck up about "some people test well", you are also incredibly unprofessional in clinical so don't think you are all that!
4. Yes, I'm married, yes, my husband has a job, yes, I lived on my savings for the first part of school. That's what happens when you plan ahead - and amazingly enough adults plan for things that they want!
5. I am one of those people that nursing school is not easy for, but it's not that hard either. You make sure you do what you have to do. I didn't have to study for my prereqs and had a 4.0. I do have to study for nursing, so stop trying to make me feel like an idiot because I have to study. If you are lucky enough that it is easy - great, but you don't have to make someone seem stupid because they study.
Wow that felt good - kinda freeing - since I can't turn around and scream at the Talking Tina dolls behind me!
If you don't ask questions, don't complain that you didn't understand something.
If you roll your eyes and act so very terribly world weary at 22 and make snide comments about those of us who are passing, don't think we're suddenly going to drop everything and help you study for the final. You made your bed.
If you say you want to be a nurse anesthetist, but can't pass chemistry, it's not a plot against you, and no, you don't deserve to be admitted directly to nurse anesthetist school because you think it's "stupid" you have to be an RN first... The pre-reqs aren't stupid, you are.
ErinJane
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1. Don't underestimate me. It's rude. When discussing who may or may not have benchmarked on HESI don't immediately count me out.
2. Don't treat me like a **** just because I like to hang out with the guy you are dating. I was friends with him before you met and at least I have the sense not to sleep with classmates.
3. I love my "murses". All of you completely make my day and It's refreshing to talk to the guys when you are constantly surrounded by women.
4. You would make an excellent nurse, don't let one bad exam ruin your confidence.
5. I understand that you think I am brash and inappropriate at times, but get to know me before you discuss my personality flaws with others.
Wow, that does feel much better!