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! :)
1. Your elite friend group won't mean crap after graduation when you all go off to other places for jobs. I would go ahead and get used to working with other people because you won't be able to sign up for jobs the way you register for clinical sections. You also could do with a dose of humble pie.
2. Why are you always so cold to me when I try to make conversation or ask a question?
3. I'm deleting the three of you from Facebook when we graduate. It's awkward and the only reason why I have not is because I don't want it to be more awkward. I don't like how you tried to "recruit" me into your little friend group but didn't want me to have my own personality. Sorry, I'm not a follower.
4. I am really sad that you failed last semester and we won't graduate together next December. You are such a great nurse on the floor, and I know that you will be able to pass this semester in med-surg again without problems. I wish we could hang out more and I wish that I had fostered my friendship with you a little better.
5. I'm mad about the fact that our nursing class was split up into two sections with different class, lab and clinical times during our second semester. It really fractured our class and broke many connections I had made that first semester.
6. Most of you will be great nurses, and a select few of you should have chosen a different profession. If you hate everything about nursing school and complain about it all of the time, I don't understand why you are here.
7. Sometimes people forget things or haven't reviewed a topic in awhile. It's ok for you to ask for help or clarification about a lecture topic as long as it's direct and to the point. Otherwise, please save the unrelated questions about a particular situation for your clinical instructor or outside class.
8. Number 7 doesn't apply to you because you have no idea how to regulate it! You make sure to speak up at least 5 times every lecture. You ask the dumbest questions because you are not paying attention.
I have so many more but they've mostly been posted, these were the most pressing
Here is a new one for me. Please stop spreading rumors that I must be cheating just because I make good grades with minimal effort. I don't appreciate the assumptions and accusation made SIMPLY because you can't fathom how you have to study for 6 hrs a day and barely pass and I don't have to. We aren't the same people and we don't learn the same. Furthermore, funny enough, if I were going to cheat, I wouldn't always be the first one done with my exam in the class 98% of the time and the other 2% I am the usually second or third one done, I wouldn't sit in the very first row right in front of the instructor and my friends that sit next to me wouldn't miss different questions than me. Use some common sense when you are making your assumptions.
A couple of my classmates have made joking complaints to me because I tend to be the first done (often within 20 minutes), and I usually, but not always, do well. I explained that I simply read fast, I RARELY go back to check, and if 'a' seems to be the correct choice to me, I don't keep reading the rest. I have been taking state-wide standardized tests every 9 weeks since third grade. I can pass with flying colors in 20 minutes or I can fail fantastically in 20 minutes.
Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
A couple of my classmates have made joking complaints to me because I tend to be the first done (often within 20 minutes), and I usually, but not always, do well. I explained that I simply read fast, I RARELY go back to check, and if 'a' seems to be the correct choice to me, I don't keep reading the rest. I have been taking state-wide standardized tests every 9 weeks since third grade. I can pass with flying colors in 20 minutes or I can fail fantastically in 20 minutes.
That's how I feel, I either know it or I don't. I go back to make sure I bubbled correctly, (have caught a few times I didn't) but other than that when I finish I am done.
I don't think people thought I was cheating though because of how fast I get done with tests because the rumor I was told was that it was being said since I don't study a lot or read the book I must be copying off my friends that sit by me. That is why it doesn't make any sense. If I was copying from them (which would be pretty impossible with how we are set up) I wouldn't be done before them.
To the girl that likes to display her dance moves and voice her surprise upon getting a question right......Shut The Xxxx Up. You're more annoying than the snooty teacher.
Please explain to me why you keep asking stupid questions. The content is covered in the chapter you are supposed to have read already. So shut the he** up and read before you get to class! I really could care less about you grandmas sisters boyfriends uncle who had the same disease we are covering in class. Save your stories for after class, it's Friday and I want to go home this century. I really wish lecture was online.
Oh this is fun!! :) I'm sure I'll have PLENTY more when I start clinicals!! :)
(I know, everyone probably said everything I have already!! haha)
1) I have NO idea what question 22 was or what C was on question 49. Sorry. When I take an exam I'm actually paying attention to the exam... not trying to remember everything that was on it.
2) Seriously? Why are you in nursing school if you want to be an engineer? (Some guy said he wanted to be an engineer...)
3) QUIT WALKING INTO A QUIET CLASSROOM WHERE PEOPLE ARE STUDYING AND START TALKING LOUDY!!! Actually don't even WHISPER. I don't care that class is starting in 30 mins... I'm probably trying to review for an exam that I've been studying for for the last week and I don't want to hear about how little you've studied or the crazy hot guy you seen at the club last night. ITS SOOOOOOOO RUDE!!!
4) Please quit looking at me like I'm the worst person in the world because I won't carry you through classes anymore.. I'm sorry, but I actually need time to study myself.
5) Quit talking about how you're going to try to find a way to "cheat" the drug test... Seriously... That's ridiculous.
6) Please don't tell me about how you cheated on the exam. I HATE THAT. I actually spend A LOT of time studying... And I don't cheat.
7) Why do you wear high heels, a shirt that shows half of your boobs, a skirt, a crap load of makeup and your hair down to your butt to school?????? You do realize in a couple months you'll be taking care of patients, right?
8) Don't wear your whole perfume bottle to school and sit in the seat right next to me... it gives me a headache.
9) QUIT COMPLAINING EVERY SINGLE DAY! You're in nursing school.. it's not easy. AND - you don't have the right to complain and wonder why you're not passing when you tell me that you haven't studied... hmm... I wonder why...
10) NO!! No, you can absolutely NOT copy my homework/lab/take home test for the 3rd time!! I spend countless hours on this and I do not want to let you just copy it in 10 minutes!!!
*Positive*
1) Thank you for being listening to me vent when I need to. Even when it's a 6 page text message that's about a class I'm terrified to take in two terms that you're taking next term.
2) I REALLY don't mind listening to you vent, lending you a quarter for a water, letting you take an answer from my lab that you've tried a couple times, having you over to study, listening to your texts at 2am... Just remember when I need you too :) :)
3) I actually do not know what I'm going to do with some of you that are in the ADN program next term when we have NO classes together. (I'm in the BSN program)
Holy halitosis!! What did you eat for breakfast......poo? If you are going to keep talking to me so close please brush your teeth before class or eat some mints. If you lean over to look at my answers again I will call you out on it.
1. Please stop asking me what I got an my exam. It's really none of your business.
2. Please stop telling me how school is only going to get harder. I know, but I can't change that and I'd really prefer to just focus on what I have to get done now.
3. Yes, I did the homework. No, you can't copy. Why, yes, I DO know you had to read for Foundations. I take that class too. No, you still can't copy.
Now, if only there was a thread for what we'd like to say to our instructors/professors.
Just because you use to be an EMT doesn't mean you know everything about nursing. Stop interrupting the teacher to chime in "Oh I did that as a paramedic" or "One time, as a paramedic..." Just Stop. Please.
Why can't you ever be on time?
I can't believe you asked "Are identical twins always the same sex?" during our OB lecture. The key word there is IDENTICAL. lol.
Do you have to restate everything the instructor says as a question?
Instructor: "Patients on Coumadin therapy should avoid Vitamin K."
Student: *raises hand* "Okay, so, Vitamin K shouldn't be avoided by a person on Coumadin?"
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(I'm in the BSN program)
decembergrad2011, BSN, RN
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1. Your elite friend group won't mean crap after graduation when you all go off to other places for jobs. I would go ahead and get used to working with other people because you won't be able to sign up for jobs the way you register for clinical sections. You also could do with a dose of humble pie.
2. Why are you always so cold to me when I try to make conversation or ask a question?
3. I'm deleting the three of you from Facebook when we graduate. It's awkward and the only reason why I have not is because I don't want it to be more awkward. I don't like how you tried to "recruit" me into your little friend group but didn't want me to have my own personality. Sorry, I'm not a follower.
4. I am really sad that you failed last semester and we won't graduate together next December. You are such a great nurse on the floor, and I know that you will be able to pass this semester in med-surg again without problems. I wish we could hang out more and I wish that I had fostered my friendship with you a little better.
5. I'm mad about the fact that our nursing class was split up into two sections with different class, lab and clinical times during our second semester. It really fractured our class and broke many connections I had made that first semester.
6. Most of you will be great nurses, and a select few of you should have chosen a different profession. If you hate everything about nursing school and complain about it all of the time, I don't understand why you are here.
7. Sometimes people forget things or haven't reviewed a topic in awhile. It's ok for you to ask for help or clarification about a lecture topic as long as it's direct and to the point. Otherwise, please save the unrelated questions about a particular situation for your clinical instructor or outside class.
8. Number 7 doesn't apply to you because you have no idea how to regulate it! You make sure to speak up at least 5 times every lecture. You ask the dumbest questions because you are not paying attention.
I have so many more but they've mostly been posted, these were the most pressing
Love this thread.