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'm pretty fortunate. The vast majority of my classmates are kind, sincere, hard-workers, and good to be around. I'm touched at how close we've gotten, and how in clincal - we've got each others' back.
I dont care what medical conditions your family members have and dont see why we need to take 20 minutes out of our precious lecture time to discuss them openly as a class. WHO CARES! I'm not heartless and if you would like to share, then please do so on your own time! Now at the end of the week the instructor runs out of time to finish her lecture and you are the first to bi**ch about it!!
Ummm you need a little worldly knowledge to be a nurse... people in mental institutions are there for a reason, cocking you head to the side and saying "I dont understand why they are kept here" is dumb and you should educate yourself further.
Dont comment on everything the teacher says.... let her teach, you just need to shut up!
Dont ask for something to be explained 15 times in class, if you still dont get it, #1 read the book, #2 see the prof after class... again, please deal with your own inadequacies on your own time!!!
Sorry that was long but it felt GOOD...5 days to go!!!!
Maybe they should ask my kids. I'm sure they'd get an earful from them about all of the shots they've gotten! :chuckle
I don't have kids myself but I remember being one and I remember everything from age 3 and up about every shot or blood test I ever had. I used to think no questions were dumb no matter what but I'm reconsidering it after reading that "do kids get shots" one. Oh dear.
Our school just had about 90 kids ranging from 6-12 years old visit us during our lab time last week at "take your kids to work day" and that pretty much introduced the way kids are to those unfamilar with anyone shorter than themselves. Most of our instructors have grown kids and they never quite explained where they rounded that many kids up from or who they belonged too.
Thank goodness most of my friends have kids and rowdy ones at that. I laughed myself silly over the stuff the kids were saying. Gotta love em!!
Some are specific, some are general. I'm not telling which is what
I don't want to hear you tell us about your child, your husband, your friend, your mother, your neighbor, your cat, your friend in Dallas, your sister, or anyone else in this damn world that you know who has/had/will have the disease du jour. Especially since you babble on about it for five minutes.
And on a related note: if you still insist on interrupting, you're only allowed THREE chances per lecture to interrupt to share your stories/experiences/ancedotes. Make them count. After that, keep your mouth shut.
Don't spend all the lecture time fighting with the instructor because "that's not how you do it at work." I know that 75% of what we learn in class is not how it's done in "the real world." But damn it, NCLEX isn't going to test me on "the real world." No, NCLEX wants to test me on that perfect "textbook world." So like it or not, I've got to learn that first. Then once I get past the NCLEX, I can learn your "the real world" way...which I will probably be very grateful to learn, BTW. Just not during lecture.
An unanswered vibrating phone is twice as annoying as an unanswered ringing phone. Especially when, instead of leaving a message, your caller thinks that repeatedly hitting Redial will get you to answer the phone.
I don't mind if you talk to yourself, really, I don't...but I do worry when you start replying back.
We know you play dirty pool. Just letting you know that.
Please don't use your children as your excuse for anything and everything. Just because some of us don't have kids doesn't mean that we don't have things that matter to us just as much.
I'm tired of hearing how the smartest students won't have the right personality to be good nurses, while C students are supposedly wunderkinds that shine at clinical. I've seen A as well as C students excel in clinical, and I've seen A as well as C students crash and burn in clinical. It's the whole package that determines whether you'll be a good nurse, not your grades or your "street smarts." And personally, I'd rather have the book-smart student who may need to work on her personality a bit but knows what she's doing, than the street-smart student who's all bedside manner but is about to give me my potassium by IV push.
Try reading the textbook for a change. You might be pleasantly surprised.
I'm entitled to be upset if I didn't get the grade I was hoping for. I'm sorry if you're struggling to just pass, but that doesn't mean I have to happily settle for less than I wanted because of that.
You CAN do this--don't give up. I have faith in you...and I'm not the only one.
To the student who wanted to go to a different nursing school after flunking out of this one:
You won't get better grades there, since you don't study and you copy off of other peoples homework. Not only that, but since you have probably done stuff like this since elementary school, you need to---
Go back and get some remedial education to cover the gaps in your knowledge.
Thankfully I haven't had many problems with any of my classmates. Some get on my nerves once in a great while but I don't let people bother me that much. I would like to say Thanks to all my classmates that had clinicals with me. I couldn't have done it without you! And thanks to all my friends who I can vent with about school. You are the best!!!
So far, I have been pretty fortunate, but there are a couple of things...
The teacher doesn't treat me different because I am an older student, she treats me different because I come to class on time, prepared to go, and willing to take whatever assignment she gives me. I hand my written assignments in one time and participate in our class discussions. There is a reason why it is called a class discussion.
Don't say to me "I figured you would know how to do this assignment". If you weren't sure, ask. It is very possible that I stayed after class, or emailed the instructor to ask for clarification. Did you? And, I have always said that if you guys ever had questions, ask and I will help you in any way I can.
Thank you to all my fellow students, the ones who are the same age as my children, for making me feel part of the group. You didn't treat me like some old lady and I really appreciate it. That is why I always offer to help.
Thanks to my fellow students who are my age. We are a unique little group and it is great to be able to travel this road together.
To the girl who sits next to me in lecture for med/surg, if you crunch on that ice one more time or lift the tall fountain drink cup to get the last bit of ice and it scrapes down the side of the cup I AM GOING TO DUMP IT OVER YOUR FLIPPIN' HEAD!!!!
And the girl in the front row, if you're going to let your thong hang out the top of your jeans, at least wear a clean one!
1. SHUT UP PLEASE! If you don't want to be in lecture, then LEAVE. I am here to listen to what is being taught not your side bar conversations.
2. STOP CHEATING. Do your readings, pay attention, and do your own work. Don't you get it, if you cheat then you will not learn and then you WILL harm a pt b/c you did not know what to do.
3. So what if I am upset that I did not earn the grade the grade I was hoping for, I choose not to settle for mediocre grades. If you do--Fine, I have personal standards of performing to the best of my abilities.
4. You know what, I don't care that you are a foreign doc now in nursing school, or that you were once in med/school or PA school....that means to me that you know NOTHING about nursing and only a little bit about differential dxs. WAKE-UP you have to take the NCLEX too. AND, I do not want extra in class/lecture commentary about your thoughts on such and such...I'm trying to learn the NCLEX standards.
5. PULL YOUR OWN WEIGHT on group projects STOP mooching off other group members by doing a subpar job on the assignment. My standards are not so extraordinary: Correct spelling, correct info, APA format. YOU can do it, YOU CHOOSE NOT TOO--JERK!
Now, I should be finishing my Off site Journal, but what fun is that?
1. Being part time can be difficult. Thank you to all of those who have huddled with me through these years. Your the best!
2. I don't care that you only scored a 93 when you normally get a 98. How you can sweat over this when you work and have 4 kids is beyond my understanding. I am happy with my 83 because I did my best. At least you waited to cry to the instructor until after class. Get some help!
3. Why on earth would I want to waste my time talking with you and your buddy when I just heard you talking with another student and when he walked away you both talked about him like he was trash. I know you must have graduated from high school or at least have a GED by now. GROW UP!!!!
4. Thank you for asking for my help just as much as I asked for yours. I know that you struggle with things just as much as I do.
5. No, I don't want to do your work for you. At least look at the syllabus every week and fake the rest. I'm not here to try get you a passing grade.
6. I know in class they told us not to say certain things to our patients, but there are times when we get to know our patients well enough and vice versa to say those things.
7. Clustering together in a group in the hospital hallway between patient rooms really looks awful as students. Surely you can find something to do.
8. Printing out and taking home a patients labs, meds, and anything else you printed to help finish your care plan, really is against hospital policy (and probably HIPPA too)
9. I hate it when you give me your pager to go on break and your patient is way down another hall and I have 2 of my own. I hate it even more when you tell me the other student down your hall refused your pager because your patient is drinking the go-lytly prep and is on the toilet. Throw your pager at him and tell him to deal with it! He is going into the same profession as we are correct?
10. How can you pass 3rd semester when you've had to redo every one of your care plans? Every one of them???!?? No, constipation is not a nursing diagnosis that belongs under the cardiovascular section of the care plan. You know where the section labled Elimination is..... Maybe that's where we'll find Decreased Cardiac Output. ACK!!!
11. How come you smell like you've knocked a few back before coming to clinical? It's not difficult enough to get through the day? Oh, just because the instructor loves you doesn't mean she can protect you forever. I just hope you have the common sense to call in sick when you work as a rn and you decide to have that drink! Please, for the safety of your patients and the staff that will have to pick up your pieces. I've worked too hard to get to where I'm at, I just don't get it.
12. I understand that your on call and have to have your phone on, but can you please sit as close to the door as possible so you can make a quick exit?
13. To all of those students that work, have children, and go full time....I am in awe of you. How do you find the time for it all and still pull grades much better than I do? Kudos to you :wink2:
Specializes in Case management, occupational health.
Love this thread, its amazing how many of us seem to have the same students in our classes
1. You must have one jacked up family, since some member of your family has every single disease that has ever been mentioned in class, and lucky for us you tell us all about it in detail, I am so glad I paid thousands of dollars to spend my time hearing about Uncle Jim Bob's neices husbands irritable bowel
2. If you pass, and become a nurse God help us all.
3. If you know more than the instructors then why are you barely passing?
4. Yes, I have straight A's. Stop asking me after every test "SO, I guess you got an A again" then saying "I hate you" when I say that I did get an A
5. If you don't want to listen in lecture, that is fine with me but let those of us who do want to listen, listen.
6. HIPPA is a real thing, and you are held responsible for what you say so it is unappropriate for you to tell all of us about your patient with the lady partsl tear because her boyfriends member was to large.
7. If you are cheating on the very first test that we have how in the world do you think you can pass NCLEX?
8. I work 40 hours a week, go to school full time, and am a single mother. I have an A. You so not work, you are a part time student, stop complaining that you are struggling because your husband only watches your child for a few hours a night while you study
9. No, the test questions are not trick questions. If you came to class you would know the answer
10. No, I do not have the test memorized, so when you ask what did you get on question 32 I truly have no idea. You huddling in the hall after the test obsessing over each and every question just stresses everyone out.
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I'm pretty fortunate. The vast majority of my classmates are kind, sincere, hard-workers, and good to be around. I'm touched at how close we've gotten, and how in clincal - we've got each others' back.