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! :)
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Once again, some really don't seem to get what I am saying at all, so I will rephrase. There is no way I would ever go off in front of a patient even if another student was being a smart ass to me. I think the best thing to do in that situation would be to keep my mouth closed. Then, behind closed doors, you defend yourself. It would be unprofessional of anyone to go off in a clinical situation. I stictly meant if during lecture when there are students bullying others, then that would be the time I would take it up with them. I would not use profanity if I could help it. It would have to be pretty bad for me to cuss at someone else in school. Again, never would this happen in an actual clinical setting.
I totally get what you mean. I have gone off on many people before and now how to do it right. Today I had to "go off" on a little kid at the park that was trying to bully my daughter. She is pretty tough for a girl that JUST turned 3 but this kid was a lot older and completely acting out of line. Did I go scream and cuss at him, of course not.
Some people have different "terms" they use, when I hear someone say they went off on someone, I don't always take it to mean they yelled and screamed and cuss.
"Why do you even bother coming to class if all you and your buddy are going to do is talk about how much you drank or whatever the weekend before? Yeah, I told y'all to 'shut up' today but, dangit, our next test is over 18 chapters and she is going over 8 of those in a 2.5 hour period today and I'd like to hear what she says. So please, **** so the rest of us that need/want to hear the lecture CAN."
Stop asking question after question on a subject that has been beat to death...if you have further questions see the instructor after class, you are holding everybody up and possibly keeping us from having more time to cover more difficult content.
Uhh totally! This happend while I was in a class today and I was just studying, not actually in the class itself and I wanted to scream SHUT UP!
I agree that our rants and raves don't reflect nursing abilities! It's the attacking each other that personally bothers me. I felt I vented about something that really bothered me, with as you stated, a bit of exaggeration and drama. And I was attacked for having a 4.0. If I try to learn everything I possibly can about the material and as a result get an A, that doesn't mean I'm obsessed about a 4.0. This should be a SUPPORT board putting down other people's vents when they are exaggerating and being dramatic is not helpful to the support environment. I don't think people should attack someone cause they are venting just like everyone else.
I don't think anyone has a problem with students having A's or 4.0's . From what I'm reading it's the attitude that the person thinks BECAUSE they got an A they are superior or will be super nurse...To me it doesn't matter whether you have A's, B's or C's as long as you are taking this nursing seriously and you aren't petty and mean spirited towards the students and instructors alike...We are all in this together..let's try and be positive so we can knock this thing out and be GREAT NURSES!!! Come to class (preferably on time), be considerate of others time ( quiet while lecture, tests), it's not hard to try and be a good person...Everyone needs to vent sometime...I also get tired of hearing the " You're sooo lucky you don't have kids" Luck has nothing to do with it, just because I don't have kids doesn't mean my life is perfect, I have struggles also but I try not to let it stop my goals..and still study and ask questions..
To the classmate who just muttered (audibly enough for me to hear several rows away) about another student asking the professor questions that are answered in the powerpoint slides: chill. I've sat through the stupid questions you've asked occasionally without making comments like that during class. Seriously, that was appallingly rude.
To several in my class: stop talking to the geriatric patients like they are toddlers. Just because some of them might not be lucid all the time does not mean they are stupid.
Once again, some really don't seem to get what I am saying at all, so I will rephrase. There is no way I would ever go off in front of a patient even if another student was being a smart ass to me. I think the best thing to do in that situation would be to keep my mouth closed. Then, behind closed doors, you defend yourself. It would be unprofessional of anyone to go off in a clinical situation. I stictly meant if during lecture when there are students bullying others, then that would be the time I would take it up with them. I would not use profanity if I could help it. It would have to be pretty bad for me to cuss at someone else in school. Again, never would this happen in an actual clinical setting.
I don't think "everlasting" was responding to your post...I think she was adding to the post in general, of things she wants to say to her fellow students!
To several in my class: stop talking to the geriatric patients like they are toddlers. Just because some of them might not be lucid all the time does not mean they are stupid.
To several in my class: stop talking to the geriatric patients like they are toddlers. Just because some of them might not be lucid all the time does not mean they are stupid.
You are sooooooo right. Also, I have one fellow student who calls every pt over 60 "dear". My mum would clean the clock of anyone who called her that!
I don't think "everlasting" was responding to your post...I think she was adding to the post in general, of things she wants to say to her fellow students!
^This. I wasn't responding to your post. I was referring to someone in my clinical group. Sorry for the confusion! :)
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I totally get what you mean. I have gone off on many people before and now how to do it right. Today I had to "go off" on a little kid at the park that was trying to bully my daughter. She is pretty tough for a girl that JUST turned 3 but this kid was a lot older and completely acting out of line. Did I go scream and cuss at him, of course not.
Some people have different "terms" they use, when I hear someone say they went off on someone, I don't always take it to mean they yelled and screamed and cuss.