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 don't understand how you can finish a 75-question exam in only 20 minutes and then spend the entire rest of the allotted testing period outside smoking. Perhaps that is why your exam grades are so poor. Why must you always say "I read the question wrong" when you get an incorrect answer? That is a pretty obvious signal that you should read the test questions more carefully and check your work at the end. You have PLENTY of time in which to do this!! After all, you did spend an average of only 16 seconds reading the questions and your options.
Please, don't tell me how easy you thought med/surg and pharm were -- ESPECIALLY when you flunked out of both of them the first time, and that's why you got held back a semester and got stuck in my class and are STILL flunking out. Don't think I don't know about that.
I'm one of those people to finish exams ridiculously fast (75 questions in 20 minutes). My classmates sometimes jokingly take bets on how fast. For me, speed has no effect on performance. If I know it, I know it, and I will ace it super fast. If not, well, I just failed super fast. I think I go so fast partially because I'm a naturally a fast reader--books that take some people several days or a couple weeks take me one day. I used to read through several novels in a day. In addition to that, when I see the answer that I think is correct, I mark it on the sheet instead of continuing to read the options--although that has nailed me a couple times.
Will your clinical group please stop taking pictures of yourselves and posting them on the bulletin board that contains notices for our class. Yes, it's sooooo cute how you hold each other in the pictures, the way you goof around with the stethescopes and hold the catheters lovingly, but it's dumb. Post them on Facebook where I don't have to see them!!
We have a rule that says once an exam starts at 9:00 a.m., no student may enter the room, and any late student will have to have to take the exam at a later time with an automatic 5 point deduction to start with. Well, some students were late to an exam, were not permitted to enter, and brought it upon themselves to go to the director of nursing and complain that they were treated unfairly. To this day, no one knows HOW they were treated unfairly since the rules apply to all of us. Yes, these are future nurses we're talking about....In other words THE RULES APPLY TO EVERYONE!!
So, all of you guys bragged these past two years that you have "connections" and that your father-in-law, etc. is a doctor and can get you a nursing job. So why aren't you working yet?
Don't tell our clinical instructor that you speak Spanish (and thus would like to be assigned to the Spanish-speaking patient), when in reality you only know like 10 words which you learned from watching Dora the Explorer with your daughter. It really irritates those of us that truly are Spanish-speaking!
Don't tell our clinical instructor that you speak Spanish (and thus would like to be assigned to the Spanish-speaking patient), when in reality you only know like 10 words which you learned from watching Dora the Explorer with your daughter. It really irritates those of us that truly are Spanish-speaking!
Noooooooooooo ----- What kind of dingbat does that! Even those who speak Spanish cannot necessarily handle a nursing relationship in it. I hope the instructor ripped them a new one.
Just because we are going into nursing does not mean that I want to discuss my health issues with you. The fact that you consider it okay to question me about WHY I have this disability (when I have never brought it up) shows an incredible lack of compassion and tact. You need more than just great grades to be a great nurse, and not everything is a learning moment for your benefit!
Just because we are going into nursing does not mean that I want to discuss my health issues with you. The fact that you consider it okay to question me about WHY I have this disability (when I have never brought it up) shows an incredible lack of compassion and tact. You need more than just great grades to be a great nurse, and not everything is a learning moment for your benefit!
OMG that is so true. I have had the same thing. One person even thought to challenge my use of disabled parking. What I loved even more was, when someone met my mother (I look after her) they thought she "didn't look sick". I neither wish to discuss my health nor my mother's (or anyone in my family). Sometimes people have NO clue. My mother would freak out if she thought I was telling people her business.
Now that we're in Big Boy and Big Girl school, do you think you could part with your cartoon-printed lunch box? It makes people at the hospital laugh at us when we go to clinicals.
Now that we're in Big Boy and Big Girl school, do you think you could part with your cartoon-printed lunch box? It makes people at the hospital laugh at us when we go to clinicals.
lol...If I could ever remember my lunch, I'd totally bring it in a Batman-themed lunch bag. Funny--I hate cartooned scrubs, but I'm ok with cartoon lunchboxes. Maybe it's because I never got one as a kid
Don't complain about being tired for our 8 am lecture when you were just bragging about being out on the 'party bus' last night.
We know you have a 4.0 but you don't have the social skills God gave to a fly. Please stop bossing us around then complaining to instructors that everybody hates you. Maybe it's because when you talk, you talk incessantly about yourself, talk over people, never give anyone else a chance to speak, and point out everyone else's shortcomings. Yet, when an instructor or fellow student tries to help you out with your clinical skills, they get attacked with personal cuts and nastiness. Get over yourself!
Note: nothing wrong with a 4.0, I know many decent people who have one. This one is just a whole different story.
Thank you guys so much. At first, I didn't really like you guys: you seemed mean, callous, and like you didn't care about me when I was struggling and behind with my residents. The fact was, though, our job & nursing in general is extremely stressful and there seems to never be enough time to do everything. By taking me on, and working with me, you guys were put under even more stress. Your actions and words helped toughen me up.
Now that I can keep up and have proven that I am a hard worker, you guys slowly opened up and trained me and offered me advice. Helped me out when I needed it. I could not be where I am at without the 2nd floor team. I have seen what amazing & caring people you are, how you truely care for the residents, and it has inspired me. Thanks for giving me "tough love" but at the end of the day also being my friend and comiserating with me when times are bad and rejoicing when they are good.
Love you guys and I will always have respecting for Nursing Assistants and the exhausting work we do. I will never forget you when I am an RN and promise to show you the respect you deserve and not treat you like mules
Thank you guys so much. At first, I didn't really like you guys: you seemed mean, callous, and like you didn't care about me when I was struggling and behind with my residents. The fact was, though, our job & nursing in general is extremely stressful and there seems to never be enough time to do everything. By taking me on, and working with me, you guys were put under even more stress. Your actions and words helped toughen me up.
Now that I can keep up and have proven that I am a hard worker, you guys slowly opened up and trained me and offered me advice. Helped me out when I needed it. I could not be where I am at without the 2nd floor team. I have seen what amazing & caring people you are, how you truely care for the residents, and it has inspired me. Thanks for giving me "tough love" but at the end of the day also being my friend and comiserating with me when times are bad and rejoicing when they are good.
Love you guys and I will always have respecting for Nursing Assistants and the exhausting work we do. I will never forget you when I am an RN and promise to show you the respect you deserve and not treat you like mules
1) just because you have 21 years old with no life beside nursing school and study for hours a day to make an 'a', while i have three kids, a husband, and numerous other obligations and responsibilities and maybe squeeze in a couple of hours of study per test and make a 'b' doesn't make you smarter than me or some sort of nursing prodigy; especially when it is obvious in clinicals that you have no real passion for the profession and no compassion for the patients. making all a's in nursing school doesn't mean that you will be a better nurse than the rest of us; remember that life experience and a love for the job/patient's will always trump test grades! also, the fact that you feel that you have to blow your own horn and show off with your "impressive" medical terminology all of the time speaks for itself; you apparently have low self esteem. but i guess that you will learn that next semester in psych!?! or will you be totally oblivious just because you make an 'a' on that test as well? :bowingpur
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2) for some (not all) of you 18-25 year old students that think that we "non-traditional" students that are in our 30's, 40's, and 50's (or beyond) are old and that you are superior to us because you started nursing school earlier in life; keep some keep things in mind. many of us have previously had very successful careers in other fields (i had one that my nursing pay will not even come close to touching for quite some time), some of us have or still are raising families, etc.;and some of us including myself have done all of the above! so get off your "look at all the old students" high horse and realize that we may just have an edge of you "young ones" in school and clinicals due to work and life experience that you are just beginning to acquire.
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3) many people have posted similar statements to what i am about to end my complaints with, but here goes! stop thinking that you know it all, asking the teacher a billion questions that go far too far in depth just so that you will look like an expert or intellectual, and when you do ask those questions and you don't like the explanation that the instructor gives, quit trying to prove that you are right and the instructor is stupid!!!! sometimes i do not agree w/something that the instructor says, but guess what? she (or he), has an msn title after their name and you and i do not! that doesn't mean that they are always right, but if you feel the need to further discuss your difference of opinion with an instructor, please make an appointment w/them so that you can do it on your own time. the rest of us would like to move on and get out of class on time!
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oh, i said that i was through w/my comments for fellow nursing students, but i almost left out the most important, annoying thing......
stop being a two-faced, back-stabbing, gossipping, trouble making drama queen!!!! geez, sometimes i feel like i have been transported back to junior high!!! grow up, get some of your own business and mind it instead of always trying to hate on someone that hasn't done a thing to you, just so you can entertain yourself!!! :flmngmd:
we are not here to make each other's lives miserable, so i wish some people would learn to behave like adults because it's a lot easier for us all to support, help, and wish each other well than to be in some kind of "catty" immature popularity contest!
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as for the rest of us, who are just trying to get through school successfully, doing our best dealing with our own unique set of circumstances and setbacks; while hopefully making a few good friendships with our fellow classmates along the way......let's "rock out" the rest of nursing school, help and support one another and become the best nurses we can be!!!! good luck to all!!! :clpty:
ok, i'm finally done "venting"..................................................thanks for starting the thread, it is very therapeutic!!!
Even those who speak Spanish cannot necessarily handle a nursing relationship in it. I hope the instructor ripped them a new one.
HyperSaurus, RN, BSN
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I'm one of those people to finish exams ridiculously fast (75 questions in 20 minutes). My classmates sometimes jokingly take bets on how fast. For me, speed has no effect on performance. If I know it, I know it, and I will ace it super fast. If not, well, I just failed super fast. I think I go so fast partially because I'm a naturally a fast reader--books that take some people several days or a couple weeks take me one day. I used to read through several novels in a day. In addition to that, when I see the answer that I think is correct, I mark it on the sheet instead of continuing to read the options--although that has nailed me a couple times.