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 med/surg/tele/neuro/rehab/corrections.
i dont see how me being too broke to go out for a meal and an evenings drinking means that im not a team player.
I dont have £60 to waste on nothing, that would feed us for about 9 days.I dont drink alcohol any ways. grrrrrr, sorry that i dont have a daddy or husband who brings home plenty of money.
Hehehe I just want to say that I too am sorry I don't have a Daddy or Hubby that brings home plenty of money!
Is it really necessary for you to continue to talk through the lecture AFTER the teacher has asked you multiple times to be quiet? For goodness sake... TURN OFF your cell phone... is the text your writing really that important? No. We don't want to see the teacher assess you because you have two different sized pupils, it's actually not going to help. No... we don't need you to tutor us- I mean, many of us have gotten higher scores on the tests than you anyway. We know how to read the book and how to study...believe it or not! And no, we don't care that you were a medical assistant first- many of us have previous health care experience, it doesn't make you any better than the rest of us- we are ALL here to learn!!!
* If you want to study with us, please bring something to the table. At the very least, read the chapters before you show up. If you need a tutor, it's free in the tutoring center. I'll be in there next Friday, how about you?
* I'm sorry your computer was stolen. I hope you don't mind me calling to tell you what the updates from BB are. You'll tell me if I'm being annoying and Type A, right?
* Thank you for pairing up with me for clinicals last week. I was terrified to work one-on-one with a total care patient and you saved my bacon.
* When I turn into That Student in class, please tell me so I can ****. I don't want to be featured on this thread.
*You do realize that if you fail fundamentals, you can't register for second semester, right?
*I'm so thankful that you didn't beat me up when I made my charting error. I don't need any help being self-recriminating. You are a fantastic teacher. Thank you for being patient with me.
* Please be on time. Please don't wear that. Please don't talk during lecture unless it's related to the class. I'm trying hard to be quiet; see if you can beat my time.
* Read. the. book. Honestly, you paid for it, might as well use it.
* If you want to study with us, please bring something to the table. At the very least, read the chapters before you show up. If you need a tutor, it's free in the tutoring center. I'll be in there next Friday, how about you?
* I'm sorry your computer was stolen. I hope you don't mind me calling to tell you what the updates from BB are. You'll tell me if I'm being annoying and Type A, right?
* Thank you for pairing up with me for clinicals last week. I was terrified to work one-on-one with a total care patient and you saved my bacon.
* When I turn into That Student in class, please tell me so I can ****. I don't want to be featured on this thread.
*You do realize that if you fail fundamentals, you can't register for second semester, right?
*I'm so thankful that you didn't beat me up when I made my charting error. I don't need any help being self-recriminating. You are a fantastic teacher. Thank you for being patient with me.
* Please be on time. Please don't wear that. Please don't talk during lecture unless it's related to the class. I'm trying hard to be quiet; see if you can beat my time.
* Read. the. book. Honestly, you paid for it, might as well use it.
I think that's pretty much this thread in a nutshell! :)
Oh my wow, please stop talking! It wouldn't be so bad if you had something constructive to say but you can talk about nothing for hours! You could talk about the color blue the whole clinical day. I've never met someone who talks as much as you do. It's exhausting and it's getting to the point where no one listens to you because you've become background noise. Just. Stop. Talking.
Your scrubs are beyond wrinkly. It looks like you wadded them up while they were still wet and threw them in the corner for a week. Iron them please. I'm surprised you haven't been sent home yet for this.
I can't believe you called one of the students and told her that you weren't going to make it to clinical because your car wouldn't start. It's not her responsibility to tell the instructor. It's yours. Our clinical instructor gave you her phone number for a reason. If you lost it, then call the hospital! Don't call one of us.
I hope you jerks get caught, thrown out of the program, and are made an example. You walk around how you love to be around your patients, would do anything for them, but at the end of the day, it's all abouy YOU YOU YOU. Do your OWN homework. If you don't understand something, stop comparing answers 5 minutes before class and tell people why you think they're wrong. So just keep doing what you're doing. Karma is gonna sneak up on you when you least expect it.
I'm only in my first semester and I already have a few to add...
1. Stop asking me when and which assignments are due. We all have the syllabi - READ THEM.
2. Please stop saying "yeah" and "mmm-hmm" to reaffirm everything the instructor is saying. I understand that you learn by discussing things (as you've told me a million times) but that is annoying and distracting.
3. I hate the fact that you used to be a pharmacy tech and know so much about medications.
4. Stop saying, "It must be NICE" everytime you find out I did well on a test. It's not NICE - even though I don't study much, I did my homework and I listened during class - more than you can say!
5. Stop flirting and giggling with the only guy in class. Please.
6. No, I do not agree that we should perform ALL procedures on each other. I do NOT want to perform a cath on you and I certainly do NOT (not not not!) want you to perform one on me! Especially since I have to look at your face for the next how many months!
7. (A little history - my program is in rural Iowa and many of us are non-traditional students) We all have kids. We all have husbands. We all have issues. Yes, yours may affect your schooling more than mine, but if you TRULY wanted this you'd figure out a way around it and do whatever you could to get it! We all have to sacrifice things for our dreams. It is a given. Stop complaining.
8. Please stop telling me how you don't get what we're learning. I've tried to help you and you won't let me. Either get a tutor or go to the instructor and stop talking about it to me!
9. AND ABOVE ALL: Please please PLEASE respect the patients! They are not mannequins that we perform procedures on. They are not little children. They have feelings and are usually well aware of the situation. Telling them that their colostomy stinks is not helping the situation. This is not a TV show and we are NOT the cast of Grey's.
I would like to tell one girl that always says, "well, in the book..." or "I read here...." Okay, we get it, you have no life and you abandon your child to study, what kind of person does that make you?
And for the girls that say" I don't have to work while in school, my parents pay for everything" SCREW YOU! Not all of us have that luxury. But guess what, while you are doing whatever without responsibilities and barely passing the class, I am working full time, taking care of a family and making A's and B's in my nursing classes! HA!
After spending the last 3 semesters with some of these girls, I'm so ready to just slap a few of them! I didn't know nursing school was a competition, I thought it was a comraderie (sp?). The competition isn't until we are trying to go for the same job (which based on my work experience and determination of working fulltime while in school will look better than you not working in the last 2 years) I have to say though to the few girls that I've become real close with....YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!!!!
1. I know you girls think you are better than everyone else, but would it kill you to talk to someone outside your clique? I am used to your attitudes, but some people aren't. You are making people uncomfortable. At least say hi.
2. Yes, I have studied. Yes, I am ready for the exam. No, I do not know anything more about the exam than you.
3. Read. The. Syllabus.
4. Why, yes, that is indeed a picture of a member. I assure you, you will see many in the flesh if you make it through this program. So for the love of all things holy, stop giggling.
How on earth have you made it this far in the program? You fail tests left and right, yet have not been kicked out? Just know, the people that are holding your hand along the way will not be there to help you take the NCLEX!
for the time being!
Faeriewand, ASN, RN
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Hehehe I just want to say that I too am sorry I don't have a Daddy or Hubby that brings home plenty of money!