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! :)
Probably a repeat as I am not going through all 50 pages....
I seriousy think I can fill out the entire health history forms for one classmate's entire family. And you know those extremely rare 1 in 10million diseases? Oh yeah, student X's family has about 100 of them!
1. Stop clarifying "so you will know you're on the right page", when all you are really doing is trying to look smart... BROWN NOSER!
2. Stop telling us all about your sister who is a doctor and how "we shouldn't be taught to do it this way b/c doctors hate it when nurses do that." Go be a doctor if that's what you want to be.
3. When we have a group assignment, do your part. I don't want to be up late doing YOUR work because I actually care about my grades/career.
That's all I have right now... I've only been in NS 2 months. Here we go.....
Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
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!
I don't begrudge people that are upset about getting a 90. My first exam I got a 90% and I was bummed because that was a B. I didn't complain to the class but the group of students I hang with we all usually do pretty well thus far and it was a major bummer. It has nothing to do with being in love with your self, it has to do with setting your standards high and being bummed if you don't reach your goals.
I don't share my grades with the whole class though because I get tired of some of the snotty remarks. I never had much focus on my pre reqs and I didn't do great, I passed but on the science classes I could have done so much more if I applied myself. In nursing school I am doing so much better then in any school before and so now I have set my bad high and I want to stay there. Most of the kids in my class that do well on the exams pretty much keep it to themselves because of the attitude of others.
Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
Stop asking a million times during lecture "Will this be on the test" "We will need to know this for the test" It was explained from day one, if we cover it in lecture and is on the power points it can be on the test and that 99% of our test questions will be from those 2 sources. So YES it might be on the test and you need to know it.
Stop ******** about the instructors because they are not spoon feeding you and expect you to know some stuff. Give me a break, they have already scaled back 1/3 of the pharmacology stuff that past semesters had to know to try and lighten the load for us and you want MORE done. Ever heard of the saying "don't bite the hand that feeds you"?
You got the question wrong, 75% of the class got it right, stop trying to argue with the instructor repeatedly why you are right. If more then half the class gets it wrong they tend to re evaluate the questions, this wasn't the case so let it go.
1. Somehow, I do not get the warm fuzzies when you give me blank stares with mouths agape simply because I came to class prepared or answered a question. Call me crazy, but at this point in my education I don't feel I should have to dumb myself down just to meet your approval.
2. No, I will not tell you what I got on the last test. NUNYA!!!
3. If you would complain less and study more, half of your complaints would be moot.
4. No, I don't think our clinical instructor is crazy and/or excessively harsh. In fact, I think she's great. She nitpicks with you because you haven't shown her you can consistently be trusted to do things correctly.
5. Umm, let me see if I can muster up some sympathy for you because you partied last night and 0700 clinicals come soooo early.......................nope. I got nothin'.
6. To all of the floor nurses who (cheerfully) put up with us student nurses - THANK YOU! You must remember what nursing school was like, and you are a Godsend. :loveya:
7. To all the pre-nursing students who read this post and get freaked out...don't. We love what we do, but like any large, dysfunctional, stressed-out family, we gripe. Helps maintain the sanity!
To my clinical group - I could not have made it through yesterday without your caring and support. Once again, you had my back and I will never ever ever be able to thank you enough for it. I am proud that I will soon refer to you not as my classmates, but as my colleagues. :heartbeat
I don't begrudge people that are upset about getting a 90. My first exam I got a 90% and I was bummed because that was a B. I didn't complain to the class but the group of students I hang with we all usually do pretty well thus far and it was a major bummer. It has nothing to do with being in love with your self, it has to do with setting your standards high and being bummed if you don't reach your goals.
I don't share my grades with the whole class though because I get tired of some of the snotty remarks. I never had much focus on my pre reqs and I didn't do great, I passed but on the science classes I could have done so much more if I applied myself. In nursing school I am doing so much better then in any school before and so now I have set my bad high and I want to stay there. Most of the kids in my class that do well on the exams pretty much keep it to themselves because of the attitude of others.
I can so relate to this! people lose their minds in nursing school- when I do really well on a test, of course I keep it to myself, out of sensitivity to others.....but at the same time, it make me angry that I have to feel almost ashamed of my good grades.....I earned them dangit, through a LOT of hard work!!! I'm not some genius or just lucky....I'm sorry if someone got a bad grade, but then they need to study more!
I agree with this comment 100%. I think the stress of it gets to you, and you start not using the brain that got you INTO nursing school to begin with.
I'm tired of the gossip (Oh- did you hear that so-and-so got asked to leave b/c of grades) the nit-picking of teachers "My skills lab teacher is SO unfair" (ok, I'm not thrilled with the skills lab teacher either but does it CONSTANTLY have to be the topic of conversation) and the whole whining over grades.
If I don't like what I hear- I'm just going to walk away. I've got plenty of drama at home, I'm the parent of 2 teenage girls :chuckle
First off, I love love love this thread. There's some things I really need to get off my chest.
1. Yes, I get good grades, but I don't brag about it. You wanna know my grades? Ask me and I'll tell you. (I get A and high B's) But then don't say "Oh, I hate you," "You have more time to study than I do," or other half @$$3d excuses. It is not a sin to study! :angryfire
2. NS is NOT a game. I'm not here to make friends/get drunk off my @$$ and sleep with random people/ "help" you do your homework and give you my study guides which I worked hard on for hours. If I have to work hard to get my grades, so do you :trout:
3. SHUT UP DURING LECTURE! I'm not paying thousands of dollars in tuition to listen to you whine and moan about how your boyfriend is so horrible to you. I don't care. Shut up.
4. I have no problem helping a fellow student. NS is hard. But I DO have a problem when I spend hours explaining the material to you while you text and take numerous breaks, then whine at me when you fail the exam. Grow up and stop wasting my time
5. ...Can you at least act like you're in college? The cliques, cattiness and excluding people because you think you're better than them is soooo High School. Again, GROW UP.
And to my clinical group/study buddies/and my roomie: You guys are awesome. I can't wait to graduate with you guys! :cheers:
I would love to be able to say "No wonder why people get such a bad impression of women and men call women ******* - the constant gossiping, talking behind each other's backs, getting mad when someone receives an A who deserves it, girls immediately calling you after the exam to interrogate you over the test questions and then argue with you if you did not put down the same answers as them.....and come to find out your answer is in fact the correct answer yet the interrogator originally said to you, "no, that is not it at all..I'm not even going to discuss your answer because it's wrong". UNREAL.
Having to hear one particular girl badmouth everyone....students, teachers, her boyfriend, her friends, her mom, etc.... Everything this girl would say would be so negative and annoying. She never had anything positive to say and always acted like miss know it all who had been there and done that. She even had the nerve to tell our clinical instructor that she was bored and did nothing of importance during the rotation. Then, she would badmouth her one roommate to the rest of us yet drive home with her when the class was over.
Also, to some of the teachers who when you ask them a question, they never respond with a real answer. Because NO we don't know everything, we are new nursing students and have A LOT to learn....and we want to be taught...we want to know why this answer is right and why this answer is wrong. Yet so many teachers fly through the material, with us barely being able to write down what they are saying, and the material isn't allowed to even enter our brains because our hands are scribbling away writing notes, leaving us with aching hands and fingers when the class is over.
I just wish some of the teachers would slow down....i know they feel the need to fit every little piece of material in the lecture, but it doesn't always help with really learning the important material that ends up being on the test.
AND taking timed quizzes UGH.....taking a 15 question quiz in 15 min is NOT easy...and doesn't allow us to really think through our answers or the questions. ESP when the questions aren't just multiple choice BUT ESSAY! I spend so much time rushing through in hopes that I answer all the questions in time that I can't focus on details or the CORRECT answer because my brain can only worry about the time and how much time I have left. I think this is a horrible way to learn & help us succeed. Thinking through the question and our answer leads to more success than rushing through it all.
AHHH I feel much better! I know I vented about teachers too but I really needed to get that out!! Thanks!!!!!
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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!
We love what we do, but like any large, dysfunctional, stressed-out family, we gripe. Helps maintain the sanity! 
MissBrittanyRN
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Probably a repeat as I am not going through all 50 pages....
I seriousy think I can fill out the entire health history forms for one classmate's entire family. And you know those extremely rare 1 in 10million diseases? Oh yeah, student X's family has about 100 of them!