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! :)
This is probably going to get me in trouble with the moms out there...BUT......:)
I understand that parents have a lot on their plate on top of NS. They have to go home and take care of their children AND do homework. But please realize that when you are saying " I have kids and you don't so that makes my life more complicated than yours AND I'm going through NS"...that just because I don't have children (yet:) that I don't have a stressful life and other things on my plate just like everyone else! It upsets me that some parents think that they can/should get a pass on things because of the fact.
I know this might upset the parents, but I just had to toss it out there :)
Relax. Holy crap you all are wound up so tight you might explode. Yes this semester has thrown in a ton of new crazy exciting things but just relax. Please.
And to our teacher:
Would you mind testing over stuff that is either a: in our books or B: in your notes. It sucks coming in to a test having no know theories we have never been taught and then you being "disappointed" in us for doing so bad on the test.
Relax. Holy crap you all are wound up so tight you might explode. Yes this semester has thrown in a ton of new crazy exciting things but just relax. Please.
And to our teacher:
Would you mind testing over stuff that is either a: in our books or B: in your notes. It sucks coming in to a test having no know theories we have never been taught and then you being "disappointed" in us for doing so bad on the test.
You are lucky you don't have my instructor. She says 1 million times " read the chapters assigned " and when we answer test questions she says, "it's wrong"...I say well it's in the book...she says "don't go by the book" and now I don't understand why she still wants us to read the book when the book is not right "according to her"
"Seriously, did you REALLY just ask that off the topic, irrelevant question? Some of us would like to go home this century!"
It seems like each day of lecture/theory consists of 25% learning new information and 75% listening to the teacher repeat last week's information for those that are too slow to understand, didn't pay attention, or were too drunk to show up to class in the first place. If only we had the option to skip the latter section. . .
This is probably going to get me in trouble with the moms out there...BUT......:)
I understand that parents have a lot on their plate on top of NS. They have to go home and take care of their children AND do homework. But please realize that when you are saying " I have kids and you don't so that makes my life more complicated than yours AND I'm going through NS"...that just because I don't have children (yet:) that I don't have a stressful life and other things on my plate just like everyone else! It upsets me that some parents think that they can/should get a pass on things because of the fact.
I know this might upset the parents, but I just had to toss it out there :)
As a parent and a student nurse, I applaud you for this... It irritates me when people use their children as an excuse because it diminishes my own ability to manage my time. Everyone has bad days... regardless of factors in their lives... but to say that because a person has kids they should automatically get special consideration (not what you're saying here, but what you're referring to in others) makes me feel like my own efforts at managing my time are some freak of luck... lol
Eh... nursing school is no walk in the park. There's a lot of stress and we all have to work it in to our lives somehow..
On to my own on topic contribution...
Dear fellow students....
put the darn cell phones AWAY!!! You CAN go through class (and clinicals!!!!!!) without checking facebook or texting.. and don't complain that you don't 'get' the material if you were fiddling with the cell phone the whole time! And to the one girl already on probation in week 6 - OMG what is wrong with you?? Leave the phone in the car and put some value to your acceptance in this program! UGH!
Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
This is probably going to get me in trouble with the moms out there...BUT......:)
I understand that parents have a lot on their plate on top of NS. They have to go home and take care of their children AND do homework. But please realize that when you are saying " I have kids and you don't so that makes my life more complicated than yours AND I'm going through NS"...that just because I don't have children (yet:) that I don't have a stressful life and other things on my plate just like everyone else! It upsets me that some parents think that they can/should get a pass on things because of the fact.
I know this might upset the parents, but I just had to toss it out there :)
I am a mom to 4 kids and I completely agree with you. :) Everyone has different trials and tribulations going on in their life that can make it stressful. My sister has one kid the same age as my youngest, doesn't work and doesn't go to school and she is always talking about how hard and stressful life is and how she doesn't ever have time for this or that. I don't get it because I am so completely different. She doesn't like going out to run errands if she has her kid without dad coming along, me I load up the 4 kids and dog and drive across country on a road trip by myself. Girl in my class has NINE kids. (crazy LOL) I really don't know how she does it. 2 of them are a year apart, new born and 1 year old.
Anyway, there are more stressful things to life than just having kids. I personally would rather have the kids and not work during our program, than to go work, or have kids and work.
Can we PLEASE dispense with the ******* birth stories in mother/baby class? We are having to stay half an hour past the time that class is over because you all want to share your wonderful story from 5 years ago. Seriously, no one cares but you. And I love the people who want the teacher to be a doctor and diagnose them from something that happened to them years ago, while the rest of us DON'T CARE. It's not gonna be on the test or the boards, SHUT UP.
Please stop "announcing" your arrival to class. "Oh here I am", "Oh wow, what a day so far, my goodness." News flash: YOU'RE NOT THAT IMPORTANT!
Please stop munching your salsa flavored Doritos so loudly in class. Stop crinkling the bag you're eating out of. It's 1 p.m. and it's our first class of the day. Can you eat lunch BEFORE you get here?? Oh yeah, it was the traffic. And stop slurping on your giant Starbuck's coffee throughout class.
Please stop arguing over why you think your answer on the exam was right and the teacher was wrong. It's rtaking up wayyyy too much time in class, and we all tired of it. (Just look at us slump in our seats and roll our eyes every time you do that).
Why must you tell us every time you send an e-mail to the instructor about the MOST TRIVIAL THINGS?? OK our care plan is due Wednesday. Why must you take it upon yourself to e-mail asking if you can submit it on Tuesday when you'll be in class on Wednesday, anyway? Why must you send mass e-mails to everyone in class about what homework we have due and other dumb things? CHECK THE SYLLABUS. IT'S ON THERE!! Then you come into class wondering why no one answered you. Get a clue already!
And the one student that repeats what the instructor JUST said as a question:
Instructor: Most teratogens cause the greatest number of birth defects in the first trimester.
Student: So what you're saying is that most teratogens cause the greatest number of birth defects in the first trimester?
Oh........
And the students who have to give every scintilla of activity they did last night: "I was on the cell phone and then I remembered that I had to pick up the kids so I stopped at the gas station first and saw an old friend there and the kids wanted take out and then then Main St. was closed so Ihad to take a detour to pick them up and then I got a text from Darlene but I didn't answer her because I can't stand her and then little Johnny ran out of his ADHD pills and so I had to call the doctor....." ....****!
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ImThatGuy, BSN, RN
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Wanna transfer to my class? lol