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 General adult inpatient psychiatry.
I've kept my mouth shut and enjoyed reading this but something finally hit me that I had to say r/t something that happened in clinical this week.
To the girl in my OB clinical group:
Do not LAUGH at me for crying while witnessing a lady partsl birth and then proceed to tell everyone else in the clinical group how you think it's funny that I say I can't stand kids but cried while watching childbirth.
A.) It's not like I bawled like a baby (not that there's anything wrong with that, but I just teared up)
and
B.) There's nothing wrong with me not liking kids. I have a small amount of patience for them on any given day and while I can deal with them when they're in the hospital and make them smile without batting an eye, let me break this down for you...I say I don't like them because really I think they're alot of work, I don't have the time, money, or commitment for them right now and frankly it's none of your business whether I like them or not.
To everyone in my Med-Surg clinical group:
Thanks for not flipping out on me being a little OCD when it came time for me to be team leader last week. I'm really glad you all were appreciative of me keeping on top of meds, fingersticks, assessments, and interventions. I felt really valued and it was a great experience.
To everyone in my program who doesn't think I have a heart (apparently there are alot of you):
What are the clinical instructors seeing that you aren't? I always get kind, compassionate, warm and caring when it comes to evals and that's how I think I am, so why do you think I'm cold and distant? I am the world's biggest softy and just because I'm always prepared and like to ask questions doesn't mean I'm not approachable. Seriously, I want to be friends.
Quit bashing the instructors. In the hallway. Where anyone can hear you.
Wednesday students: DO NOT CALL up the Monday group to find out what is going to be on a test! It's called cheating! We had to study our butts off for it, so should you.
To the boy who sits in the back row: quit tapping your pen and stop whispering during lecture. It's very distracting.
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:
LOL what school do you go to? Theres a lot of reckless behavior going on. Geez.
hurry up and graduate they need a new clinical instructor
"""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"""
OMG!!!!!!! did you have the same gal in your class as me!!!! WAY TOO FUNNY!!! i tape my lessons so i have to listen to her 2x!! AHHHHH
You guys suck! I always step up and help you guys study. I let you borrow my textbook when you forgot yours. I do the most work on our care plans or group projects. I offer help with difficult patients. I encourage and support you if you didn't get the grade you were hoping for or you just had a bad day. For all of my efforts to HELP YOU, you guys exclude me, and only me, from our group project.
To everyone else:
If you don't want help, don't ask how I pass my tests without working in study groups or ask to study with me to learn my "tricks" to studying.
No nursing school isn't about making friends, but there's no reason to not be friendly, respectful and polite with your classmates.
If you don't want to volunteer just be honest and say you don't have the time or you're lazy. I admit I'm lazy all the time, but it's about working smarter not harder.
There's nothing wrong with admitting your shortcomings. I know I am not perfect, you know I'm not perfect so I can admitt to my shortcomings. At least you can see and account for my failings. I can't say I can do the same for you.
Just becuase I make the effort to practice what I preach doesn't mean that I am naive or wasting my time. Some like to call it taking care of yourself.
Lastly, I am glad that you are all losing sleep and your hair over the stress. It's what you get for being so hateful to people that want to help. You guys are bitter and want to drag anyone remotely happy into your misery. Misery may love company, but I don't care for the company of misery.
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!
If I honestly have to hear one more story about your brother's-friend's-wife's-cousin's-kid I will SCREAM! I ran out of gold stars to give away so I am going to tell you that you already won the award for most disease related stories ever. Now, stop telling them.
If you feel the need to argue with the instructor about every point she makes or you still cannot grasp the content after the 15th question, wait til the end of class and talk to her. You are wasting our time that we paid for!
Stop saying that you didn't study for this test and that you are going to fail it. You make an A everytime and I don't like hearing it.
To my two best friends that didn't make it to the next semester with me, do not lose heart. You are smart and will make it in the nursing field. You both have taught me so much and you are only a phone call away.:redbeathe:redbeathe:redbeathe
-Passed my finals and progressing to the summer semester in OB! Can't wait! May '09 here I come!:heartbeat:up:
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.
oh my goodness #4 is soooo true and one of my biggest pet peeves! arrggg
While you lord your grades over everyone, and look down your nose at me, I just smile. I smile because my grades are better than your grades are, but you'll never know it!!!
CISCOPATRICK06
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Amen to JBUDD!!!