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.
Oh and back to the venting, I am very sad about those that won't be moving on with us, even though I am relieved I passed, it is hard to be 100% happy when we lost some good people. One of you that won't be passing. Well I vented about you a lot in this thread and I can honestly say, at least half the class might have breathed a little easier after finding out.
Yes I know that's probably mean and I have no doubt some might say that about me, but, well this is my vent so too bad!
Specializes in Onc/Med-Surg, ER, Nursing Supervisor.
I get irked with students that have been dismissed from the program for unsafe practice... and then they turn around and blame the instructors. I'm sorry, it's obviously the instructor's fault that you have been on probation for the past TWO semesters. I'm shocked they didn't boot you out sooner!
It's great that you've been getting As without studying. Announcing that loudly, however, is incredibly tacky when we're expecting to lose at least a third of our class this quarter. Also, during test reviews, when the teacher says that we were all given points for a certain question, and you raise your hand and ask the teacher why everyone got points when the answer is so obvious and you can't understand why anyone would or should get points for the wrong answer? Also tacky.
To my section: I'm a little sad that we're all being split to join the other two sections next quarter. I know I'll bond with the new section and make friends there too, but to the half of you going to the other section I'll miss you guys.
To those who won't be continuing on after finals: this is a tough program. Please don't get discouraged, and don't look at this as a failure of self. Dust yourself off and get back on the path!
We're going to lose some of our class this semester as they jump ahead in their progression. I have mixed feelings--some where know-it-alls (not so much anymore) but they were all very nice and I liked them.
-Please stop just calling out questions/comments. RAISE YOUR HAND!
-Please stop talking over me during simulation, you may be able to recite what the 2nd paragraph on page 1124 said but you have no bedside manner or critical thinking skills. I will tell you to go away if you are ever my nurse!
-Stop complaining about how your going to fail this exam/clinical/nursing school...you've made it this far, if you dont get it, get help or here's a thought STUDY!
-I'm so happy that you know all of this already, how come you aren't already an RN?
On a more positive note....thank you for getting me notes when I was sick, thank you for all the nights out full of laughs and drinks, thank you for keeping me sane, thank you for the great birthday even though we were stuck at clinical for 12 hours, thank you for being the best group of friends I have ever had, 65 more days!!!
1. Why would you get your eyebrow pierced while in nursing school (when the guidelines specifically say you cannot have facial piercings) and then throw a fit when the instructor says you can't have it? I know you paid a lot of money for it, but again, why get it in the first place?
2. Please be prepared. Don't tell me not to hand in my homework because you didn't do it. I worked hard on it. I work full time while you go and hang out with your friends and party, but I still managed to do it. What gives?
3. Holy cow, did you really just YELL the "F-bomb" to the student down the hall while you're standing at the nurse's station?!?
4. Put the phone away during clinical! Stop texting your friends and updating your facebook while your standing at the nurse's station!! AND DON'T COMPLAIN WHEN THE CHARGE NURSE TELLS YOU THAT YOU NEED TO PUT IT AWAY! It looks bad for our school and it looks bad for the hospital when a patient or their family sees you standing there texting.
5. Don't complain when the instructor gives you an "unsafe" because you almost gave meds to the wrong patient. If you're assigned to room 62 but have been with room 60 all day thinking you were in room 62, there's a problem. How did you not identify your patient when you first walked in?
6. The questions on the exam were not unfair. You were just hungover when you took it.
7. No. You can't copy my work. It's MY work. Not YOURS.
8. No...Sorry, I appreciate the offer but I can't go to the club with you. I'm too busy working, going to school, and doing homework. You should try it, maybe you wouldn't have a failing average.
To the rest of you:
1. Thank you for looking at the phone tree back in 101 and calling me the night before clinical on our second week to help you with your care plan. I cherish the friendship that we built starting then. And I also cherish all the help you've given me since then.
2. Thanks for all the over-the-phone study nights. I love when I read an exam question and hear your voice saying the answer in my head because we just went over that material.
3. I'm glad that I met all of you. I look forward to going to class every week to be with you all. You're all amazing and without you I wouldn't be able to get by.
4. Thanks for being there for me when my dog was missing. I was a sobbing mess for almost a week and you were there helping me along the way. And thanks for celebrating with me when I finally found him. As insignificant as it seems, it was very important to me.
5. Thank you for considering me your friend. It means the world to me.
6. I can't think of any other people I'd rather go through this with. I love you all.
Just because I did good on the first test and "okay" on the second and have a higher average in the class than you, doesn't mean I don't worry about my grades and it doesn't mean I don't have a right to complain, stress, or worry about how hard that test was. I'm not a genious, I have worked VERY hard to get the grades that I've gotten so far and I am continuously worried about that next test and I constantly wonder if I am cut out for this and worry that I'm not going to make it. It's not my fault you didn't do as good on the tests as I have, I wish you did and I'm not trying to compete with you. We are in the same boat, just because I got a few good grades doesn't mean I think that I'm better or smarter than you.
BTW, don't ask me what I got on the test if it's going to make you act this way. How would you have acted if I flunked it? Would that have made you feel better?
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
"Some days I feel as if you want me to be ashamed of my good grades. And the "looks" do not go unnoticed. There will be a day when I'm not feeling particularly professional nor friendly nor well-rested, and I will snap back at you...and it won't be pretty."
1) Please stop asking me about my grades. I think from now on I will just tell you all that I made 100% on everything.
2) Do not get mad at me when I am trying to help you, after you ASKED for my help!
3) No, in case it's a big mystery to you, I don't want to work with you anymore. You are freaking out over the smallest of things and it takes time away from what we need to be doing.
4) I don't automatically know the answer to every test question. Yes, I study and yes, I'm getting the information....that doesn't mean that I know everything...I'm a student, like you.
5) Nursing school is not a popularity contest!
6) I have nothing in common with most of you, except school. I will be nice and friendly but I have no delusions that I will be friends with you outside of school.
7) The only time that you want to talk with me is to find out if I know something you don't. UGH! That really bugs me! Just STOP IT!
Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
We're going to lose some of our class this semester as they jump ahead in their progression. I have mixed feelings--some where know-it-alls (not so much anymore) but they were all very nice and I liked them.
In the group we just lost, their was only one I am not sad about, more then half the class would probably agree. LOL
The rest though it's like WOW. It's been 10 total now and we are half way through second semester. Thankfully I still have my close group of friends, one admitted today though she was totally freaking out if I didn't make. Her and I have gotten really close. It made me feel good so many people cared.
It can be very difficult to lose people, some people will say, you aren't here for friends, it's only about you and you succeeding, but I disagree, when you make close friends you want them to succeed just as much as you. Granted I won't drop out for them, which they wouldn't want me to. But it's very hard. I feel really bad for one girl in class. She was very close with 3 girls, they had their little clique (not in a bad way, I have mine) but are still nice to everyone and stuff, anyway, she has now lost all 3 friends
Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
To my fellow students:
1) Please stop asking me about my grades. I think from now on I will just tell you all that I made 100% on everything.
2) Do not get mad at me when I am trying to help you, after you ASKED for my help!
3) No, in case it's a big mystery to you, I don't want to work with you anymore. You are freaking out over the smallest of things and it takes time away from what we need to be doing.
4) I don't automatically know the answer to every test question. Yes, I study and yes, I'm getting the information....that doesn't mean that I know everything...I'm a student, like you.
5) Nursing school is not a popularity contest!
6) I have nothing in common with most of you, except school. I will be nice and friendly but I have no delusions that I will be friends with you outside of school.
7) The only time that you want to talk with me is to find out if I know something you don't. UGH! That really bugs me! Just STOP IT!
Thanks, that really does feel better!
I so badly almost did that once, there is a girl that I am social with in class, but that's about it, outside of class only time I hear from her is to ask me about my grade, her and I usually did about the same. (although she has had to lied a few times cause it just didn't add up) but anyway, she is always the first text I would get no matter what telling me grades were up and asking what I got. She even asked my best friend once that she was in clinicals with. "So, how did Mividaloca do, do you know yet?" She pressured another girl in Clinical to check her grades to so she could know. Well one time when I did bad and I knew she just was hoping I did worse then her it took all my might not to say I got 100%.
Although I did get 100% on one of my finals last semester and when she came up and asked I was totally humble about it and she went "Oh" and turned and walked away. I was like SERIOUSLY?????? LOL No congrats or anything.
There are 5 people though I would totally trust to give my student info to though so they could check my grade for me if for some reason I couldn't. We always tell each other and if someone did bad we try to get together to study more. I had a friend yesterday that wouldn't be home for an hour when our Final grades came out (one that is like my best friend) and she asked if I would log into her account and tell her what she got and then asked me to add it up for her to give her the total and what she got. (I felt so bad cause it was 84.4 so she missed the B by freaking .01 %) anyway, it's nice to have people on that side that you CAN trust and share with and pull for each other.
I keep rambling in all these threads, is it obvious I am on cloud 9 I passed my freaking class yesterday with honestly not ONE POINT to spare if I would have missed one more question on the final I would be out of nursing school right now!!!!
I'm shocked they didn't boot you out sooner!
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~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN
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Oh and back to the venting, I am very sad about those that won't be moving on with us, even though I am relieved I passed, it is hard to be 100% happy when we lost some good people. One of you that won't be passing. Well I vented about you a lot in this thread and I can honestly say, at least half the class might have breathed a little easier after finding out.
Yes I know that's probably mean and I have no doubt some might say that about me, but, well this is my vent so too bad!