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 just started the nursing program and finished up my first week. During the first week, alot of focus was put on not judging others, gossiping, tolerance, and supporting fellow students, even if you do not like them personally. In addition, this is my first time comming onto this website and into the nursing student area. Reading the compaints of other students bothers me, because the compaints are just personal opinions of other peoples faults, with no factual basis, in plane since, it is just griping about people and not being understanding and looking at things from other perspectives and not just your own. Anyhow it is dissapointing, I know things are stressful, life is stressful, nursing school can be stressful, but taking your frustration out by bad mouthing fellow students is the wrong way of doing it.
1. No, I'm not weird/I do not dislike you-it's just that sitting around and talking about your life does not interest me, that's why I won't eat lunch with you.
2. Is your freindship real-I mean all you do is pass compliments to each other.
3. I'm not a know it all-it's just that the professor is staring at us waiting for an answer and I don't want to look like I didn't study.
4. I'm so happy that these months will fly by, because although I've delt with many personalities, i've never met people like you.
5. And I hope a nurse sets you orifice straight-so you can come off that cloud.
Sorry - to myself - for letting you take complete advantage of me. I work my butt off in school to get the grades I do, so stop griping about your F and then tell me it's because I didn't help you when you asked. I have to study too. I didn't help you because I had been helping you along all semester, never heard so much as a thank you, and got sick of it. I am embarrassed that it took me as long as it did.
And don't complain about the twelve hour long clinical days because you can't be away from your kids that long. Really? Do you plan on working after you graduate? Get used to it - 3 days a week.
Stop complaining about how hard school is when you don't have to work and have someone financially supporting you. I work full time and don't complain about it, you have an extra 40 hours/week to study that I don't have.
Please don't tell me how to do my physical assessment when you have had to retest on the first 2 (our school breaks them up into 3 parts). If I am making an error, my partner will be more than happy to correct me, as she is looking at the guidelines.
Please quit being negative all the time. We are all under a tremendous amount of stress.
To my fellow student practicing your pt assessment on me...Um, your arousal really freaked me out, I don't think you'll be my partner anymore...It's now very uncomfortable.
Would you please SHUT UP about how you are sooooo upset because you *only* got a 90 on the test when you usually get a 95? Especially when there are students who are STRUGGLING to just pass the class. (doesnt apply to me personally, but there is a student who was one point away from passing and it made her feel really bad that folks were upset about getting such a high score, I can only imagined how that made her feel)
Also, please stop talking during lecture about your wedding plans. (Good for you that he FINALLY proposed, but can you please talk about that on your own time?)
And while you are at it, no, not everything they teach us in class can be applied to a clinical situation verbatiam. So, please don't tell me that "they told us in class not to say such and such to a patient" when you were NOT involved in the patient's care, nor was in the situation where I had to tell a patient's family member her mother is dying. (Response I got from a couple of students during post conference while discussing death and dying issues based on my patient and the family dynamics)
Just because you can "pass a test" with flying colors don't mean you will be a good nurse. Just like a person who struggles with test taking skills don't mean they are gonna be a bad nurse. There is such a thing as book smart and plain ole common sense.
LOL! Kuddos to you!!! Well said! I hate it when their class mates that are upset because they got a 90! They seriously need to go jump off a plane!....For those of you on here that do this, is that y'all way of advertising it? Why? People need to stop being in love with them selves. geesh!
Ok after my rant before believe it or not I have more:
Just because you are the only male in the class doesn't mean you are in charge...back off big boy.
Seriously, shut up. I don't care what they do at your hospital.
No really...shut up. When I ask the instructor a question don't jump in and try to answer it for you.
For the last time...shut up. Perhaps you need medicated, I don't know. But being in class with you is like having a frigging greek chorus with diarrhea of the mouth at the back of the room.
If you can't shut up can you at least lose the nasty tone of voice. How did you get to be as old as you are without someone slapping you with a wet fish?
OK I am thrilled that you earned a bachelor's with a 4.0 gpa -- have ya noticed that not one other person has shared their GPA publicly? Have a little humility. By the way I have a 4.0 too but you don't hear me running around telling people at every opportunity like -- pass the ketchup would you? I wanna put it on my 4.0GPA.
To my two lab partners...thank you. You are so great and I really trust you when you give me feedback. I hope you feel the same way.
This one has probably been said before but it's REALLY annoying me lately-
"Can you please SHUT UP while the instructor is talking, or anyone else for that matter. Do you really think we paid good money to hear the details of your latest shopping trip?"
Oh, and "Will you stop trying to drag ****** comments about our classmates out of me? I like most of these people, and if I don't I'm sure as hell not going to discuss it with you!"
Can you please stop wasting class time by asking questions that have nothing to do w/ the current material? I don't think it's crucial you ask questions about taking the NCLEX in our FUNDAMENTALS class.
To the group of kids repeating fundamentals: You are not as cool as you think you are. I'm not at all impressed that you find this all SOOO boring because you know it all. Um...you're repeating. You SHOULD know this all as you've had this class before.
Tube tops and skin tight clothes that show off your clevage are NOT appropriate even for lecture considering you are at a CATHOLIC college and it says so right in the handbook.
When i'm practicing in the skills lab please don't come up and start telling me how I "should" do it because it's easier your way. I appreciate you trying to help, but you totally just screwed up my thought process.
It's great that you already know how to give injections and draw blood because of you job. That's not going to help you much though if you fail this class because you failed the very simple basic math test.
I'm trying really hard to remember that you are only 19 and in a very different place in your life than I am, but if you keep insisting on telling me how hard your life is because your mom (who is supporting you financially while you live at home) doesn't get along w/ your boyfriend and how stressed it makes you and how HARD it is to focus on school I will probably have to hurt you.
If I were your parent I'd be very embarassed that you have shared so many of their health issues w/ the entire class in an attempt to look like you know it all.
To the one sort of scary crazy woman: talking in a baby voice and then giggling hysterically really creeps me out.
To my study budy: I'm so glad you struck up a conversation w/ a random stranger in the elevator! It makes it much easier going through this w/ someone to study with.
Tube tops and skin tight clothes that show off your clevage are NOT appropriate even for lecture considering you are at a CATHOLIC college and it says so right in the handbook.
OMG we have a girl that does this too. Funny she has dressed very...let's say "bravely" since orientation and it really put me off spending time with her (I know how that makes me sound I didn't say I was proud of my behavior). It turns out she is in fact one of the two nicest women in the class (the other is not me me), quite smart and well just an all around good egg. We are now lab partners and I am so glad.
Please bother to do reading prior to lecture as you are darn well supposed to per the course syllabus. And if you don't can you at least stop de-railing the lecture time with questions that were in the reading? most of us all ready know the answers BECAUSE WE DID THE READING and therefore you are WASTING OUR TIME.
Lecture is not meant to spoon-feed you everything you need to know-it is supplemental- yes you do have to actually *GASP* do some work beyond just showing up for class and sitting there like a lump.
To all those who have previously worked as a cna, tech, or some other patient care tech... SHUT UP! Seriously, if you already knew it all you would already be the nurse! Why can't you just learn it and do it the way you are being taught? Not everyone in the class is interested in how you do it where you work! Seriously!
I hate it when their class mates that are upset because they got a 90! They seriously need to go jump off a plane!....For those of you on here that do this, is that y'all way of advertising it? Why? People need to stop being in love with them selves. geesh!
Student4Now
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I wonder what you mean by "no factual basis."