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! :)
"Are you crying? Are you crying? ARE YOU CRYING? There's no crying! THERE'S NO CRYING IN NURSING SCHOOL!"
Now, there are exceptions..........everytime a know it all goes off on an unrelated subject for ten minutes during classtime, I certainly feel like crying lol.
pca 85, I definitely feel you on that one. I hate when Student Nurse Know it all raises his/her hand and gets called on because you know that the rest of classtime learning is toast.
Now, there are exceptions..........everytime a know it all goes off on an unrelated subject for ten minutes during classtime, I certainly feel like crying lol.
i FEEL you on that one!! i think we've all dealt with one of those in our classes...
there's one in my class who does it DAILY...and multiple times a day. as soon as her hand goes up (if she feels like being polite enough that day not to just shout out whatever she wants to say), practically the whole class sighs, knowing what is about to happen. lol.
Would you kindly refrain from being a knowitall and let the profressor to whom I addressed the question answer it?
AMEN!!!!
Also, "if I want to ask a question & I'm paying over $300 a credit hour to go to school here, stop rolling your eyes behind my back while the instructor answers it. I will ask as many questions as I feel like asking."
Lastly - "I will kick your @ss the next time you cheat on a test that I studied all week for."
It is such a pain when you show up late for everything and think you can use class time to catch up. Learn how to tell time.................don't they teach that in first grade?
If you tell me every day after class/clinicals that "I am going home to take a nap." And you also tell me "I can't believe you study all night. I have to be in bed by 8:30 every night", then don't be so surprised that you are barely passing every class. Maybe you should study once in a while. Just a thought...
If a classmate has already asked me to help them w/something cool in clinicals, don't butt in & take over. If you are assertive enough, you might find something interesting to do yourself, rather than horning in on all your other classmates.
Don't ask me "What did you get on the test?" I am not embarrassed to tell you, it's just none of your business.
Not every question that you miss on a test is something that was worded wrong. The people who get the question right were paying attention, and the fact that you missed it doesn't mean the question should be thrown out.
Just b/c you are an OR tech & you know a few acronyms, doesn't mean you are smarter than the rest of us. Which brings us back to my first statement, b/c you are the one who's barely passing class, in spite of your vast knowledge of acronyms. :doh:
"Are you crying? Are you crying? ARE YOU CRYING? There's no crying! THERE'S NO CRYING IN NURSING SCHOOL!"
I hear ya. Wish someone would've yelled this at me (yes, I know the movie reference). I cried every day for 2 weeks at one point , but I don't make a deal out of it like some people. I keep it in my car or in the ladies room stall LOL! Shaking my head at myself now because I'm over what the deal was... ANYHOW... Hope I don't upset anyone but this is my vent:
I actually had this discussion with a good friend and study partner: "I know you always get A's and you don't have to do much studying to get them but please stop sobbing in my ear about how you're going to get your first B and you'll never get over it. Why can't I be supportive since I've been crying too? Because I have to work my butt off for B's and C's and sometimes I'm afraid I might not cut it - some of us weren't blessed with your learning skills. And there's nothing NOT FAIR about the situation, there's no one getting an A in this class right now so stop crying to the head of the program. I hope they're secretly laughing at you." BTW, they're still my friend .
To 2 people in my lecture last week (I didn't actually say this): "Please stop correcting the instructor. I think they know more than you do. Just because your uncle's-cousin's-half brother had blahblahblah disease doesn't make you the expert. Especially when the instructor has been working in this specialty for over 30 years. I don't mind an example from you but I do mind you extending the lecture an hour for your detailed story and ensuing argument with the instructor."
i FEEL you on that one!! i think we've all dealt with one of those in our classes...
there's one in my class who does it DAILY...and multiple times a day. as soon as her hand goes up (if she feels like being polite enough that day not to just shout out whatever she wants to say), practically the whole class sighs, knowing what is about to happen. lol.
Stop borrowing my pens/gait belt/notebook/whatever-you-forgot-this-time in clinicals. I'm a nursing student, I'm broke, and I did not pay money for supplies so that you could borrow them all the time b/c you lost yours. If you can't be responsible for keeping track of a freakin' Sharpie, maybe you aren't cut out to be responsible for people's lives...
, but I don't make a deal out of it like some people. I keep it in my car or in the ladies room stall LOL! Shaking my head at myself now because I'm over what the deal was... ANYHOW... Hope I don't upset anyone but this is my vent:
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hiddencatRN, BSN, RN
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lol!!