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 would say this to nursing students in general. Well some of them. Stop acting like fisherman with the "my fish is bigger than your fish" stuff when it comes to your nursing program and how you're in one of the "hardest" in the country. I mean, have you attended all the other nursing programs out there to have something to compare it too. How hard a school is, is all about ones perception.
Every once in awhile, you get one that sounds like they HAVE attended (and failed out of) every school in the country. Ah, perspective ....
BUT. I'm so tired of everyone telling me that I wont make it in nursing school because I just graduated from high school! EVERYONE tells me that! It is highly frustrating! SO, this is for my fellow classmates, teachers, nursing advisor, and everyone else who has told me I wont make it.
You say that I can't do this,
That I'm one crack short of breaking
I'll never make it, not a chance;
Just a failure in the making.
Success, a prospect? You think it not!
Its pointless work, beside!
Better that I give up now
Than fall because I tried.
"Silly girl, what a foolish notion,
The idea is most bizarre!
To think, that you, being you
Could succeed the way you are."
I could heed your helpful counsel
And just follow right along,
But I'd much rather be around
On the day you're proven wrong.
*sigh* I feel better :)
I CAN do this! I WILL. Everyone who is a nurse was not a nurse before they were. You start somewhere.
To those who are repeating this particular semester of nursinf school: "Im sorry you did not pass the first test, but if you have the entire summer to study what you were not able to get last semester, and you knew what was going to be on this test I have little to no sympathy for you. How are you going to be a competant nurse without learning from your mistakes, and yes it is actually desirably to crack a book in Med-Surg I."
To the girl who tries to latch on to my group by sucking up to us: "No we will not help you just bc you finally decide to play nice. And no, "helping" does not consitiute giving you all the answers gift wrapped"
To my clinical group last semester, "am i really the only one who looked and learned all my patient's medications when the clinical insructor said not once or twice but three times in preconference and postconference that the following week we would be quizzed on the meds before we were even allowed to touch our patient's medications. And it is kind of awkward when you are the only one who knows you have to assess someone's BP when your giving a BP med
To the girl who sits behind me and sighs like a two year old and makes comments under her breath...If you have something to say...then say it!
To the girl who got a B+ on her test and "didn't even study." I don't care!
Seriously??? Do you really think the whole class wants to hear about your yeast infection??? Ummmm...no!
To those of you who have children and still somehow manage to go to nursing school....God Bless you! I don't know how you do it. There should be a national honor society for you. Like PHI THETA KAPPA SUPER MOMS! Seriously!!!:bowingpur:bowingpur:bowingpur YOU ROCK!
No we did not go an talk to the professor grading our group presentation about you becuase we just dont like you, we talked to her becuase you:
1. Show up constantly late to group meetings
2. Show up hung over, drunk, or barely conscious
3. Come unprepared
4. Get us kicked out of the coffee shop we are in for talking loudly about partying the night before
5. Complain about how hard this assignment is, or how stupid it is and has no relevance to your future nursing practice
Also if I hear the phrase, "why do I need to know this, I am going to be a nurse not a doctor" I am going to go postal. Yes you do need to have a good basic knowledge of meditations, disease processes, psychological development, and many other things that make nurses healthcare professionals.
Quit complaining that the instructors are mean and trying to weed you out, for once you have professors who actually expect you to be responsible for your own learning and not be spoon fed information. You are going to be responsible for people's lives and well being. GROW UP!
And the one thing in nursing school that has made me furious on many occasions. Those of you who decide to cheat on our exams. Thank you for ruining our test reviews as a class and the ability to ask questions about test questions. Thank you for pushing our professors to the point of having us inspected by security when we go to test. And since they decided to allow you to repeat, do not talk to me. Do not engage me, I do not care you circumstances. I have so much respect for someone who honestly tried and failed. If I am ever a patient in your hospital I will fire you as my nurse and inform your entire floor, charge nurse, and house supervisor while you will never, ever enter my room again or see my medical records.
1. You really need to chill and go have some fun. You are heading fast towards burnout.
2. No, I do not want to ever work with you. And I sincerely hope you are never my nurse.
3. Im sorry that I held a grudge for what you said and how you acted last year. I have enjoyed being in your clinical group this semester and thanks for all the help.
4. Please dont think that I know everything. I happen to be very good at remembering things that have been said.
Huh! And just when I was beginning to think I was the only one having these urges to scream at my fellow students...
My biggest one is to the students in the back row: "Shut-up already! This program is hard to get into, you're taking up space from someone that would have paid attention to this lecture!"
There are a few people, when I saw them at orientation I wanted to say: "You, really? You, you got in? And 'so-and-so' didn't? How the crap did that happen?"
To the people that try to argue to the instructors that their answer was right, even when it was obviously wrong: "If, even after 5 minutes of explanation, you don't get it, why the crap won't you just make an appointment with the instructor for some more explanation? You're taking away 5 minutes of lecture that I may have needed!"
To the people who don't do the reading before class: "Sure, you didn't read... Just sit there and take notes and read later! Just because you didn't read the assignment on-line doesn't mean you get to complain."
To those that have kids: "Look, I'm sure that you had fun at your son's soccer game last night, and I'm sure that you would have loved to read the chapter but didn't. And, no, I don't have kids, but that DOES NOT mean that I have more time then you do. I go to work after class and then study for hours before bed. So, next time you're watching the soaps you Tivo'd, turn off the TV and get out your book!"
Oh, and one last one: "Yes, you will have to give bed baths at clinicals, no it's not a big deal if you're female and your patient is male, yes you might have to obtain a stool sample; just stop whining and do it. If you can't handle this, it's time to change majors!"
But, there are a few people that help out...
To the people who make me laugh: "Thanks! You make it easier to get through clinicals!"
To the people who always know the answer: "You're annoying, but since you know, why not show me/explain it to me."
In general: "Thanks for sitting in the hallways with me before check-offs, quizing me on the order of the skills, and for having a moment of silence with me before going in!"
I would say this to nursing students in general. Well some of them. Stop acting like fisherman with the "my fish is bigger than your fish" stuff when it comes to your nursing program and how you're in one of the "hardest" in the country. I mean, have you attended all the other nursing programs out there to have something to compare it too. How hard a school is, is all about ones perception.
OMG YES! Lol- there definitely are some, um, "spitting" matches on AN, to put it nicely. Maybe you did go to the hardest nursing school in the country. Maybe nursing school was just harder for you than it is for others. Maybe nursing school in general is challenging!
To the know it all's that get angry when they dont get a seat in the front row: CALM DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!! You act like youre a nurse already because you're a CNA. You're not, shut up.
To the girl who cried because she couldnt do blood pressures on her second try: Honey, I'm sorry I know it's frustrating. But crying? Really? What are you gonna do when you are a nurse (but probably not haha) and you have siutations in front of you like someone DYING? that my friend is serious, not blood pressure problems.
And to the rest of you, grow a pair!! I know our instructors are here to teach and guide us but you dont have to kiss ass every 10 seconds. Its a turn off and it won't get you a better grade.
I swear 80% of these people have no personality and or people skills. I mean.. ***!!!!! You need some kind of flair to be a nurse!! Let things fall by the wayside, take a shot of whiskey and toughen up.
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Every once in awhile, you get one that sounds like they HAVE attended (and failed out of) every school in the country. Ah, perspective ....