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! :)
Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
I can be positive too.
To my close group of friends I have made thank you so much for the support and encouragement and study groups and wind down times out to lunch and so on. Thanks for making me laugh even if it's at inappropriate times and keeping things fun!
Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.
Can I add one?
Just because I live closer and don't have small children to pick up doesn't mean I should have to accept the inconvenience of being last to pick up my clinical patient information at the hospital. I chose to enter school after my kids were grown so that I didn't have to deal with the issues that come with having small ones. It is fine you chose to do it now, but don't think it is okay to pass that inconvenience off on me because to you it makes sense. And it is only by chance I landed the clinical site closest to my home. I had the same odds as you. Leaving in the middle of study time is just as much of an inconvenience to me as it is to you. We would ALL like to just do it on the way home. The fact you live further away really doesn't play in here.
I would say...Just because we discuss a lot of sensitive subjects as part of our learning process, you still do not have the right to talk raunchy about personal topics. I don't want to hear about your oral sex life (or lack of same!), I don't appreciate the crude jokes and elbowing every time something of a sexual nature is discussed, and I wish you would grow up already!
We're not in middle school. You're not shocking me...you're embarassing yourself and grossing me out.
I would say...Just because we discuss a lot of sensitive subjects as part of our learning process, you still do not have the right to talk raunchy about personal topics. I don't want to hear about your oral sex life (or lack of same!), I don't appreciate the crude jokes and elbowing every time something of a sexual nature is discussed, and I wish you would grow up already!
We're not in middle school. You're not shocking me...you're embarassing yourself and grossing me out.
Actually thanks for this post because sometimes when people start doing this in class I join in (I don't even know why)-- yet I completely agree with you.
This is why I like this thread. None of us are perfect so we can learn a good bit from it.
1) Keep your voice down! You have cell phone voice. If you wanted to talk with your high school friend all through the lecture why not just stay home with each other, after all you live together.
2) Please stop being so self-righteous and realize that just because people choose to become nurses doesn't mean we choose to be robots who forget/abandon all our own personal opinions, you just learn to be professional and look past those biases and treat others fairly and with respect.
3) Stop telling baby stories and talking about your children. Not everyone has/likes children, just like not everyone is a dog or a cat person (note I am not saying that children are in any way like animals just using it as an analogy). You choose to attend nursing school while knowing full well the demands of parenthood ahead of time; nobody wants to hear that you chronically have to come late or leave early because of your eternal child care issues.
4) Arrive on time or don't bother.
5) When you offer to take your time and tutor someone struggling with theory and then they just party the semester away, all the while posting pictures of themselves on social networking sites passed out on toilet bowls and fail out anyways.
to the 19 year old who thinks she's better than everyone else and has no qualms with letting you know- i lied about my last grade i beat you behind by 10 points in the test!!!
to the obnoxious paramedic...hmmm i wonder...if you knew everything, how come you fail skills check off EVERY SINGLE TIME!!??
1. I don't care if you like me or not...you still need to treat me with respect (and I will do the same for you).
2. I don't care if you think I'm a "know-it-all" or whatever...I'm in class to learn the information and to make sure that I KNOW it so that I can be the best nurse that I can be. Sorry if that offends you....it really shouldn't. I don't roll my eyes every time you ask a question.
3. Yes, I like confrontation. That doesn't mean that I like it with my classmates, co-workers or patients. Just because I have a different personality than you does not mean that you get to judge me. In fact, you should embrace me...you might have patients that have the same personality as me that you are going to have to deal with as a nurse. What a great opportunity to learn about someone different than yourself.
4. I am actually a nice person but know that I am in school for ME and MY career. I'm not here to make friends...I'm here to be a great nurse.
why must you ask questions in lecture that the instructor went over already? If you would have been paying attention the first time you would have already heard her and she wouldn't have to repeat herself.
~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN
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I can be positive too.
To my close group of friends I have made thank you so much for the support and encouragement and study groups and wind down times out to lunch and so on. Thanks for making me laugh even if it's at inappropriate times and keeping things fun!