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 Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
Oh heres another one...
I had to go to a clinical site a 2 hour drive away. I don't have a car, my sister totalled mine.
4 other nursing students who live near me had to travel to the same site. All knew I didn't have a car.
All 4 carpooled together. I took 2 trains, a tram and a bus (which took hours) to get to clinicals at 6.45am every morning. They knew that also.
I was later told I wasn't offered a lift because the woman who was driving only wanted to be friends with the "smart girls in the class" and thought that if she was seen being friendly with me then the teacher wouldn't think she was smart, apparently I'm an idiot because I'm only in my early twenties.
This woman also considered the teacher "her only equal"....and spent all clinical saying " teacher says I'm the best nurse here !!"
That is terrible. I would have offered you a ride whether I was carpooling or not. Most of the students in my class are willing to help another if they are going through a rough time. With the exception of a few, we may have our cliques in class but we aren't rude to others not in our clique either. 85% of the people in my class would have offered you a ride if they were going to the same place.
I had to go to a clinical site a 2 hour drive away. I don't have a car, my sister totalled mine.
4 other nursing students who live near me had to travel to the same site. All knew I didn't have a car.
All 4 carpooled together. I took 2 trains, a tram and a bus (which took hours) to get to clinicals at 6.45am every morning. They knew that also.
I was later told I wasn't offered a lift because the woman who was driving only wanted to be friends with the "smart girls in the class" and thought that if she was seen being friendly with me then the teacher wouldn't think she was smart, apparently I'm an idiot because I'm only in my early twenties.
This woman also considered the teacher "her only equal"....and spent all clinical saying " teacher says I'm the best nurse here !!"
:hug:I would rather take a train, plane and automobile than be stuck in a car with those nasty *******! Age does not equal intelligence. Sorry you had to deal with that!
To the wonderful friend who sits next to me in class......... i love you dearly, but PLEASE stop asking me what you just missed the teacher say! I know she talks quietly, and I am happy to give you my notes later, but if you keep asking me what you missed, then I start missing stuff too and I can't help you at all!
To others:
If the pockets of your cut-off shorts are hanging out the bottom by a good 2", then I think maybe your shorts are too short!
Some of you need to buy new clothes - like many of us you have gained a little wight from the past 2 years of stressful nursing school. We don't want to see your panty lines and camel toe anymore.
PLEASE turn your cell phones to vibrate for class. And if it rings, shut it up, don't try to look around at everyone and pretend it's not yours!
PLEASE try to get to class on time. Everyone has times when they will be late, yes, but not every day for every class! It's rude and disruptive to those of us who want to pay attention!
Please don't watch movies and you-tube videos on your laptop unless you are going to have headphones. I could care less what you do on your computer in class, but i can't hear the teacher talking over your movies!
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.
I can certainly understand the school kicking people out if they aren't showing up because of lack of child care or transportation, but for getting H1N1? That's not really right - if it is the school rules that one must then stay out for a week, then the school rules should include a way for those people who got sick to make up their clinical time on other days or via lab time. Nobody WANTS to get the flu and be out sick for a week! How horrible!
Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
I can certainly understand the school kicking people out if they aren't showing up because of lack of child care or transportation, but for getting H1N1? That's not really right - if it is the school rules that one must then stay out for a week, then the school rules should include a way for those people who got sick to make up their clinical time on other days or via lab time. Nobody WANTS to get the flu and be out sick for a week! How horrible!
I completely agree, that was our rationale too, it was school policy to stay out for a week. For those that had clinical once a week (only first semester students) it wasn't a big deal because you could miss 2 clinicals and they had make up days at the hospital. But the other semester students had clinicals 3 days a week. But the school stood by the Policy is Policy stance.
In regards to your other post, we had one of those last week with pockets a few inches longer than the shorts. I also say put the cells on silent. We will be taking an exam and here the buzzing of the phones in the bags or people will have them on the table and you hear it jumping around on the table. So annoying.
I can certainly understand the school kicking people out if they aren't showing up because of lack of child care or transportation, but for getting H1N1? That's not really right - if it is the school rules that one must then stay out for a week, then the school rules should include a way for those people who got sick to make up their clinical time on other days or via lab time. Nobody WANTS to get the flu and be out sick for a week! How horrible!
So the solution is not to be tested for the flu. You could miss class, but still get to clinical. It sucks that those in Healthcare can't stay home while sick like other professions. We laugh about it at work all the time. All the notices " Do not come to work if" yet you call off and get reprimanded for it.
Yeah, we are only allowed 5 call-offs in a year where I work, so if any of those were for H1N1, too bad for you! it sucks. We take care of sick people all day long, but we are never allowed to be sick!
Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
So the solution is not to be tested for the flu. You could miss class, but still get to clinical. It sucks that those in Healthcare can't stay home while sick like other professions. We laugh about it at work all the time. All the notices " Do not come to work if" yet you call off and get reprimanded for it.
That was actually mentioned, we mentioned like how would they know, there were s/s that the instructors were to note. You didn't have to even be confirmed flu, if you had the high temp above(I don't remember the temp) than they said you need to stay out a week. But even if you were to be sneaky, if you have the flu you should not be going to clinical thus exposing all the sick people with compromised immune systems with something new. This was during the huge H1N1 scare so I am sure that added to the precautions but still. Unless your done being sick, you shouldn't be sneaking to clinicals. JMO The clinical instructors though I am sure would have picked up on the person being sick and sent them home anyway.
That was actually mentioned, we mentioned like how would they know, there were s/s that the instructors were to note. You didn't have to even be confirmed flu, if you had the high temp above(I don't remember the temp) than they said you need to stay out a week. But even if you were to be sneaky, if you have the flu you should not be going to clinical thus exposing all the sick people with compromised immune systems with something new. This was during the huge H1N1 scare so I am sure that added to the precautions but still. Unless your done being sick, you shouldn't be sneaking to clinicals. JMO The clinical instructors though I am sure would have picked up on the person being sick and sent them home anyway.
To protect the patients you wear a mask. We do it all at time at work. Last year, if you worked on a unit that had a confirmed H1N1 or the lab ( who floated everywhere in the hospital) you had to wear your N95 respirator so not to spread to others. Truthfully, i dont think my clinical instructors would have noticed.
Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
Ours would notice. Mask or not I don't think anyone should be going to the hospital knowingly having the flu. It goes beyond just risking the patients physical health, but your own, and how can you be at the top of your game and ensure you don't make med errors and so on when you are not functioning at a full level. If I have a nurse come to treat me that is obviously sick, I will be asking for a new nurse, I don't want the wrong medication dose because they aren't thinking clearly. Maybe it's just me though.
Anyway, back on topic. Gotta love the students that constantly interrupt everything someone is saying because they know everything. We have a couple of those in my class.
I love how students who have never worked in the health care setting, when seeing how things actually happen, say that " I will never do that when I am a nurse" Every time I hear that, I want to say to them " Nursing school is not the real world, and you most likely will do the thing that you are saying you wont"
To protect the patients you wear a mask. We do it all at time at work. Last year, if you worked on a unit that had a confirmed H1N1 or the lab ( who floated everywhere in the hospital) you had to wear your N95 respirator so not to spread to others. Truthfully, i dont think my clinical instructors would have noticed.
No, that would be more to protect yourself from getting it. We had many cases of H1N1 on the unit I worked on. We wore masks around those patients, yes. To keep from getting it ourselves AND from spreading it then to others.
I cannot imagine anyone who had the flu, H1N1 or regular, would've felt like going to clinical. Also, as students we are not fit-tested for the N95 masks, thus are not allowed to care for any patient on respiratory precautions. Our instructors would certainly have noticed if we were walking around wearing N95 masks!
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That is terrible. I would have offered you a ride whether I was carpooling or not. Most of the students in my class are willing to help another if they are going through a rough time. With the exception of a few, we may have our cliques in class but we aren't rude to others not in our clique either. 85% of the people in my class would have offered you a ride if they were going to the same place.