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 can't believe you actually answered your phone and said to the person who called you "No, I'm not busy. What's up?" In the MIDDLE of lecture!
I know how much you enjoy texting, but next time, please turn the key volume off because all I hear is beep, beep, beep, beep. Ugh. It's distracting! Or better yet, leave the room to text! Please.
When we are going over the test, stop debating the answers with the instructor! You got the question wrong. Accept it and move on. If you want to debate it, see her after class. Don't waste our time.
Since you're the "all knowing" why don't you teach the class?
I really don't understand why you get so upset when you fail an exam and yet you told me you didn't study. And you're shocked you didn't pass it? Study next time!
we were told if you dont have access to a RELIABLE car, don't even think about starting the nursing program. which to be hoenst with ya is kinda true.. you cant rely on public transportation, at least where i live!
Your program (and others) may vary, but our program does not give us the choice of clinical sites. We were given the full list of sites at orientation, with plenty of time to try to persuade instructors regarding our assignment... Once they gave us our assignment for the semester, though... it's a done deal, regardless of how far away it is from 'home' or transportation status.
While placing oneself in harms way (at a bus stop) is not worth it, I'm sure carpooling is an option that can be explored.
"professor, how are you going to test us? do you listen for the apical and then i do it?"
see- STUPID QUESTION.
Another example.
"In no way can your shoes have air holes in them"
"Do you think the clinical site will care if there are air holes in my shoes?"
There is such a thing as a stupid question. And nursing students seem to ask a lot of them.
In my class many student are shy or afraid to ask questions. My tuition is freaking expensive, I will ask as many questions as I want( within topic). People who find questions "stupid" are the ones who come to class before the test and ask " what exactly is an antibiotic"? No one was born with knowledge, learning ,listening, and asking questions can help you succeed. Freedom of speech people keep on talking, if the instructors don't mind who cares what the students think
If the instructor doesn't get to finish the lecture...she will finish it tomorrow ( or it might not be on tomorrow's test)
we were told if you dont have access to a RELIABLE car, don't even think about starting the nursing program. which to be hoenst with ya is kinda true.. you cant rely on public transportation, at least where i live!
Sorry if I was unclear... lol... we did not get the option to choose... we were given a list of potential sites and time to make arrangements or attempt to sway the decision... (compelling arguments and all)... They did accommodate people who carpool from other towns, I think, but mostly it was random selection. We are based in a small town, so public transportation doesn't even exist. The majority of our clinical sites are in small towns in the area, so a commute is an expected part of the program.
No one in my school's program went in to this uninformed regarding transportation, though... lol... they made sure of that.
I can't believe you actually answered your phone and said to the person who called you "No, I'm not busy. What's up?" In the MIDDLE of lecture!
Not that uncommon. I teach in the corporate world. On guy not only answered his phone but leaned back stretched and started having a conversation. I was speechless.
Ok, apparently we are all in the same class, but I have a few more...
1. Please don't ask me what video, lecture, homework, etc we are supposed to have done for today. You have a schedule just like I do, read it!
2. Yes, they really do expect you to read the 90 pages they assigned for class today. NO, I don't think that it's outrageous, it is a 3 hour lecture and only meets once a week. Was it really that hard to read the 90 pages in the last 7 days?
3. You failed the bed bath check off? :confused::confused: Dare I ask, how?
4. They let you back in the program- even after you failed the bed bath and vital signs and came to class at the first break and only to act like you have been here the whole time?
5. If you knew you weren't going to be able to keep up with the demands of the program before it even started, why couldn't you say that before the 3rd wk of class? Now you have taken someone else's spot who has to wait another semester to reapply and try to get in.
One thing that ****** me off the most is the people who got into the NS that don't care and don't study. I'm pretty sure there are lines of people waiting to take your spot and willing to work harder than you.
Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
I have a car and I surely don't want to drive an hour to clinicals. We don't get to chose but we get to put in a request. Basically a sheet is passed out and it is said which would you prefer, this site or this shift. But it's no guarantee and most people want the same facility (brand new hospital close by), so many of the students don't get what they want. That said, if I am put at the site I didn't request and have to drive the hour I suck it up and do it. I might complain about to my friends and husband. But I surely wouldn't complain to the school about it.
We were told from the get go the radius we might have to travel for clinicals, that reliable transportation was a must, reliable childcare is a must, back up childcare is a must. You get the flu and are required to stay out for a week (school rules for H1N1) and miss clinicals that week, sorry about your bad luck but you're out also.
We were pre-warned of all of this. If the school or instructors keep making special exceptions for some students where does it stop. Rules are in place for a reason and it's best to be consistent with them for all students. I don't excpect special treatment for when my husband is out of town for 5 months and I am having to take care of my 4 kids without any family or friends to help. As I don't expect the person that is working also to get special leeway because they had a double shift the past weekend, or the person that thought they could skate by for whatever other reason.
I totally am with the dumb questions too. We have someone in our class that will ask for clarification on something during lecture like 5 times. Every 20 mins. it's repeating something already clarified. If we don't cover all the lecture in the time allotted it is still on the exam and it isn't covered the next day, there are already things planned for lecture the next day.
Specializes in med/surg/tele/neuro/rehab/corrections.
wow this is a hot thread tonight! So many emails I'm getting on this thread!
My school didn't allow requests for clinicals. But I did go to the DON second year second semester and pointed out that for LVN's who are only there one year, that the school tended to put students in the same hospitals and not give anyone variety as to clinical sites. Since I as an LVN only get two shots I would have preferred it to be at two different places and then I named where I preferred. (I of course started out saying that I understood there can be no switching clinicals or choosing but I just wanted to give my opinion)
She very nicely explained why they cannot switch around after the fact and I thanked her for the knowledge and was satisfied that I gave good input (saying students needed different experiences etc)
Later, for some reason, someone had to drop out of where I mentioned I would have loved to go. The DON switched me there! I fell down in a dead faint! (not really but I could have)
So sometimes it pays to open your mouth and speak up. :)
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I can't believe you actually answered your phone and said to the person who called you "No, I'm not busy. What's up?" In the MIDDLE of lecture!
I know how much you enjoy texting, but next time, please turn the key volume off because all I hear is beep, beep, beep, beep. Ugh. It's distracting! Or better yet, leave the room to text! Please.
When we are going over the test, stop debating the answers with the instructor! You got the question wrong. Accept it and move on. If you want to debate it, see her after class. Don't waste our time.
Since you're the "all knowing" why don't you teach the class?
I really don't understand why you get so upset when you fail an exam and yet you told me you didn't study. And you're shocked you didn't pass it? Study next time!