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! :)
Please don't talk to me during lecture. I am honestly trying to concentrate.
Also, when I sit in a new place it means I really don't want you to sit next to me and distract me.
I can't believe you just walked up and took a drink out of my coffee. Yes, I know a few people in the program well enough to let them do that, but i've only talked to you twice!
And AMEN on the cliques. We have a group in our class called "Team hardcore" and you can't even ask them a questions about lecture, because they only help their own.
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.
1. I'm SO over your whining and "woe is me" attitude about being the only person in our class that failed boards, when the weeks leading up to it, you were with your fiance every waking hour and bragging that you simply didn't need to study...obviously you did!
2. Just because you had a 4.0 doesn't mean you know everything there is about nursing..so please quit acting like it!
Specializes in Neuroscience/Neuro-surgery/Med-Surgical/.
When I was in nursing school, there was this one 'older student' that just HAD to add her own personal story to EVERY single thing the instructor was trying to teach us. OMG! SHUT the hell up already! No one cares, and most times it doesn't even relate! And the lectures would enviably run late.
I remember the day of graduation, she again was trying to be a busy-body and take over organizing how we were going to march in for the ceremony, and blabbing away. FINALLY, a fellow student told her " let us enjoy the graduation today by shutting the hell up, ok?"
I love when you do something in the skills lab and then on a clinical site my the SAME student, for every skill bleats out..."I don't know how to do that".
Doh...were you in the same skills lab as us? Yes? You are on an equal footing with ALL of us then. Please note we are in nursing school. No one thinks you were spawned with innate nursing skills.
Shut up...no, really, don't smile at me and carry on, SHUT UP.
If you want to challenge every test answer you got wrong do it on your own time. We are burning daylight here!
I don't care if your mum, dad, or anyother relative is a nurse, doctor or frankly a bloody bus driver. They are not teaching this course by proxy via YOU. SHUT UP!
No pregnancy tests CANNOT tell you who is the father. Are you kidding?
How is it that you are always just late enough to disrupt the class.
When the instructor says the class is closed five minutes after the start -- why do you think this is an invitation to come 4 minutes and 55 seconds late? Get a grip.
When you are late, don't walk in sporting coffee from the local coffee house.
Stop telling me you didn't study for the test just before it starts. Are you proud of that?
Stop trying to involve me in side conversations in class. I am trying to be polite but really want to smack you with a wet fish. You are so rude...get a clue.
It isn't necessary for you to have your phone on every class in case your family call with an emergency. My family had an emergency and campus security came to get me -- it stopped my family calling to find out where the Cheerios were (yes I can hear you when you are on the phone outside the open door of the classroom). Silly cow.
If you stopped peppering the instructor with a question every time they finish a sentence you might find they cover your question. They have covered this material for students before.
Don't tell me you have to ask the question as soon as it pops into your head or you will forget it -- see that thing next to you? It is a notebook. Apply the pen to the notebook and write the question down. Better yet, how important can it be if you forget it within 2 minutes?
Stop brining stinky hot cafeteria food into the classroom and stabbing at it like an animal. Either eat before you come to class or learn that a fork is NOT a knife.
Stop wiping your food covered fingers onto the seats in the classroom. Get some class.
Don't assume that your life is harder than mine because you have children. It is offensive. You have NO clue about me because you will not stop talking about yourself.
Specializes in Flight RN, Trauma1 CVICU STICU MICU CCU.
SHUT UP!!! No one cares about your gastric bypass experience, no one cares how much you study because you get the answers all mixed up. You are not paid to lecture with, or agree with the teacher. Everyone thinks you should have gotten kicked out of school for using your practice foley catheter on your partner.
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS SACRED!!! YOU DON'T KNOW AS MUCH AS YOU THINK YOU KNOW AND YOU ARE CONFUSING THOSE OF US WHO ARE TRYING TO LISTEN TO THE TEACHER! QUIT WASTING OUR TIME WITH YOUR STORIES AND AGREEABLE ASSERTIONS!
(thank goodness i am done with nursing school and never have to sit through another of her backseat (front row) lectures again!)
[and that goes for your other know-it-all-front-row-best-friend too]
Kudos to you on repeating the semester.. but that doesn't mean I want to hear everything you have to say on every topic. I don't want you telling me what is going to be on the test. I don't want you telling me how or what to study. You failed a semester, I don't plan to take your advice.
Also.. I wanted to say to the teachers.. Why give the class award to a repeater? Seriously.. they've done this whole thing before.. they have an advantage.
Then again to students.
Don't ask what is going to be on the test, read the material, study your handouts and notes. Grow up.
Don't whine because you got a dosage question wrong because you inverted your numbers, or you put a decimal in the wrong place.. Don't expect to get credit.. if that was a patient and not a test, you could have seriously hurt them.
Do your own work, take your own notes, you are not copying mine.
Please don't take up valuable class time telling us about your second cousin once removed who had the disorder.. We don't care, we want to learn the material and get home so we can study.
Don't have little asides with the teacher during class time, we are not here to sit while you have a little one on one joke with the teacher.
Please, please, please do not make perverted or suggestive comments when we are discussing sexual disorders or anything even slightly related to that area. I thought one of the requirements here was to be an adult.
Don't half ass your physical assessment and then try to throw me under the bus because I did a full assessment and I helped keep the patient from crashing. You are wrong, you can ask whoever you want to make yourself feel better. There is a REASON we do physical assessments. One day you will be out in the real world and be responsible for a patient.. I will pray for your patients.. because with your skills.. they may very likely die.
Oh and you are NOT supposed to diagnose patients.. you should have been kicked out this semester with all the screw ups you made.. I have no idea why you weren't.
1) (To 1 particular student) DO NOT spend the last hour before a very stressful final exam buttonholing me against a wall telling me intensely about how all the lecturers in 2 different universities have it in for you when you a) refuse to read the textbook and b) refuse to talk with them ... because they've got it in for you. Maybe also seek a psych evaluation for paranoia?
2) Love my study group peeps! You're the best!!!
3) Please, please, please - and I mean this soooo sincerely - shut the ^$#* up in lectures.
4) Do not say "Don't worry, it's fine" in response to a caller when you answered your mobile phone without moving from your front row seat in the lecture theatre. (This even gobsmacked the lecturer )
5) I'm sorry that one of your friends and I don't get along - we don't dislike each other, we just have different studying styles. Neither of us have any problem with it so please don't make us uncomfortable with your discomfort.
6) Why (in the most despairing voice I can manage) would you ask a question of the lab leader you KNOW is now going to spend 3/4 hour answering your question and then saying anything else even remotely related that he can think of before getting back on track. You KNOW he's going to do it!!!
7) If you are going to look bored or stressed when I answer your question about the material, then - here's a thought - DON'T ASK.:icon_roll
8) (A pet peeve) Yes, you may borrow my flashcards which I make copious amounts of because they help me, but did it not occur to you that it was rude to take a pile of neatly sorted, organised and rubberbanded flashcards and return them as one big mess - with rubber bands on the side. :angryfire
9) I make quizes of the material to help ME. Yes I'm happy to send you copies of them but do not b***h at me because I didn't write answer sheets and send those too. I'm not your tutor! (And if I was I still wouldn't send you the answers lol).
10) Just because you are in my study group and we are becoming friends doesn't mean that you are exempt from the don't %^$#ing talk in lectures rule.
ErinJane
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Please don't talk to me during lecture. I am honestly trying to concentrate.
Also, when I sit in a new place it means I really don't want you to sit next to me and distract me.
I can't believe you just walked up and took a drink out of my coffee. Yes, I know a few people in the program well enough to let them do that, but i've only talked to you twice!
And AMEN on the cliques. We have a group in our class called "Team hardcore" and you can't even ask them a questions about lecture, because they only help their own.