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! :)
"What are you doing on the sidelines watching. Get in here and help!"
I was involved in a code the other night at my internship and i was right there at the patient giving all the meds, doing compressions and I see two more of the students in the room just watching from all the way in the back. I tell them to trade me spots so they can get some experience and they both say no and try to hide.
You guys/girls need to go out on a limb and do stuff that is new to you
Stop talking smack about each other! I'm so sick of hearing my classmates gossip about each other. I can't wait to be graduated and never have to see you all ever again!
Don't say how you hardly studied and that is why you got a C. Like a C is so below you. In my school, A's and B's are hard to come by. But by golly, we have a 100% NCLEX pass rate and have had 100% pass rate for years.
Don't blow $250 on a Littman Master Cardiology III if you can't figure out that your apical pulse is on the left side of your chest (FYI - it's NOT over your right clavicle).
Don't tell me you can hear your spleen working -- especially when you are actually auscultating the right lower quadrant of your abdomen.
...all of this despite having (somehow) passed 2 semesters of A&P.
Please oh please stop talking about death panels. Politics has no place in the classroom, especially if it comes from that particular news channel that pushes the death panel nonsense.
STOP texting me and asking me if test grades have been posted online yet. I don't know, and if I did I wouldn't tell you anyway. If you are so concerned about knowing it, then:
1) Pay attention the first time since we already went over the tests in class and learned our grades then. It doesn't take much effort!
2) Log onto the Internet and find out for YOURSELF if grades have been posted. You're not helpless!
"What are you doing on the sidelines watching. Get in here and help!"
I was involved in a code the other night at my internship and i was right there at the patient giving all the meds, doing compressions and I see two more of the students in the room just watching from all the way in the back. I tell them to trade me spots so they can get some experience and they both say no and try to hide.
You guys/girls need to go out on a limb and do stuff that is new to you
I know we were told to stay back in the corner of the room and shut up if there was a code. Could that have been ther instructor's instructions?
I don't care that you were accepted into every medical school that you applied to and that you turned them down because you feel you can serve humanity better by being a nurse. Chances are, you DIDN'T get into medical school and nursing school was your second choice. Tired of hearing that story from people.
I know it's warm out, but I really don't want to see your pierced navel and stretched marked muffin top overflowing over those tight Daisy Dukes. Do you really think you look attractive?
Stop coming to class late because your kids' school bus was late. I don't care.
I'm glad that you're pregnant, but do you really need to have a fourth child at the age of 24? Really--stop being a baby mamma and start being more mature.
I don't need to hear how the nurses on the unit wear Crocs and you have to wear nurses' shoes. Guess what--it's in the student handbook that we got that clearly states we have to wear nursing shoes and nothing else. Stop complaining. I'm not listening.
I'm glad you made note cards on every freakin' topic we learned, but please don't flip through them 5 minutes before an exam and ask "Oh what does this mean......". If you don't know it on exam day, then you don't know it. Period. Try studying--it's a good thing.
I can hardly understand a word you say because of your thick foreign accent. So why are you complaining that your patient's don't understand you?
Stop acting like it's beneath you to clean out a bedpand and/or change a a patient's diaper. No, it's not the job of the CNA, it's part of your job too. If the smell of poop bothers you, then yours must smell like a bed of roses. And if the smell does bother you, leave the program now.
Thank you for asking me to help you toilet YOUR patient and i'm the one that got pooped on!!! Still love ya even though you ran from the room laughing at me!!!
STOP texting me and asking me if test grades have been posted online yet. I don't know, and if I did I wouldn't tell you anyway. If you are so concerned about knowing it, then:
1) Pay attention the first time since we already went over the tests in class and learned our grades then. It doesn't take much effort!
2) Log onto the Internet and find out for YOURSELF if grades have been posted. You're not helpless!
You must get annoyed easily because this is not that bad. I call friends to ask if grades are posted but not because I am lazy and don't want to get online, but because I don't have internet access everywhere I go. it's not like I ask people " oh what did you get" ?I don't even care what people get.
Hah hah hah ladies, if you cannot do without your beautiful fake nails, dont bother being in this field at all. I cannot say how many times in school that I heard " omg I cant wear my nails"
:yeah:So true, so true! 
That Guy, BSN, RN, EMT-B
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"What are you doing on the sidelines watching. Get in here and help!"
I was involved in a code the other night at my internship and i was right there at the patient giving all the meds, doing compressions and I see two more of the students in the room just watching from all the way in the back. I tell them to trade me spots so they can get some experience and they both say no and try to hide.
You guys/girls need to go out on a limb and do stuff that is new to you