Things you would love to say to your fellow nursing students!

DolceVita, ADN, BSN, RN · Mar 6, 2011

You really didn't bring a pencil to our exam. Where have you been all semester? We have been taking paper tests since the beginning of class and every exam day you never have a pencil. And no, you may not borrow mine.
Would it kill you not to slam the door as you leave when you've finished your exam? There are about 30 other people in the class and we would love to not be scared out of our minds by the door slamming every five minutes. It's also distracting and extremely annoying.
Must you ask EVERY week where we're going to be for clinical? I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but we have this thing called a calendar and it has numbers and words on it. It tells you when things are due and where clinical is going to be every week. Print it off please.

Yeah that!

CoffeemateCNA · Mar 6, 2011

You really didn't bring a pencil to our exam. Where have you been all semester? We have been taking paper tests since the beginning of class and every exam day you never have a pencil. And no, you may not borrow mine.

Where have you been all semester?

How about where have you been since kindergarten?? I learned to bring pencils to tests when I was 5.

cschoppe · Mar 7, 2011

I just wanna say to that one person in class who everyone somehow believes is God...that you are NOT! Butt sucking is not attractive and while it may get you somewhere with the professors and fellow classmates who are swooned by you, it is not the most respectable way to get somewhere...just sayin'

healthstar, BSN, RN · Mar 7, 2011

Stop Freaking calling me 100 times/day for test questions and answers. I study so hard to get good grades and you want good grades by getting answers from me?! I can explain things to you but not give you questions and answers. I am not going to risk my education either, it's hard to trust people today. This happens everytime we have a test ugh.How are you going to pass the Nclex if you get all the exam answers from other students? I would kill myself if I end up like these students.

steelcityrn, RN · Mar 16, 2011

Funny stuff, I like the pencil one for sure...lol

steelcityrn, RN · Mar 16, 2011

and....coffematecna, you need to go into comedy if you tire of nursing.....lol

Emilynn09 · Mar 16, 2011

I'd like to say a few things:

1. It's called a dress code; white shoes. Why are you still wearing black shoes? Are you that hung up on individuality that you can't just abide by the rules while you are at school?

2. Just because you smoke, does not give you a free pass to be 20 minutes late after EVERY break. You are completely distracting. Get a clue.

3. Stop asking irrelevant questions, or commenting on how you or your child had such and such treatment or such and such med and it didn't go quite like the text says it should have. We've been told time and time again that text book is not actually what happens in clinical practice, again. Get a clue.

4. STOP TALKING during lecture. If you don't want to be here, GO HOME. I don't care if you are here or not but, PLEASE be quiet because some of us actually want to learn.

5. If you don't study; party on weekends, goof off all week and then get a failing grade on an exam... that's why. Stop trying to figure out why you aren't passing because it's blatantly obvious. Don't you wonder why so many people are completely stressed out and spending hours studying all the time? while you somehow have the extra time to enjoy life?

6. You don't have to laugh every time the instructor brings up the word lady parts, or member. GROW UP! Be professional.

7. Yes, late night and/or weekend clinicals suck. You knew it was a possibility when starting the program so suck it up. This is only temporary and if you think you won't get stuck working nights and weekends as a new nurse, you are extremely delusional. You might as well get used to it now and adjust your life accordingly.

8. You got accepted to nursing school how? who did you bribe?

9. During test reviews, stop arguing over EVERY single question you got wrong. You got the answer wrong, deal with it. Learn from your mistake. But most of all just SHUT UP!

10. Stop texting and using your iphone to play on facebook, and then wondering why you don't get anything out of lecture. Again, get a clue. DUH!

DolceVita, ADN, BSN, RN · Mar 16, 2011

Dear Classmate,

When people ask questions in class they can hear you making nasty remarks under your breath and sighing in the back row. I would have thought that 2 years of NS might have clued you in to your rude and superior behavior. Obviously not. I wonder what would happen if someday one of those students was in a position to hire you?

You are going to find nursing hard because your tolerance for everything is so low. Good luck with that. I pray that I never have to work with you because I feel like I would have to watch my back all the time, lest I find a knife in it. You are one of the people that will help perpetuate nurses eating their young.

CrazierThanYou · Mar 16, 2011

Dear Classmate,
When people ask questions in class they can hear you making nasty remarks under your breath and sighing in the back row. I would have thought that 2 years of NS might have clued you in to your rude and superior behavior. Obviously not. I wonder what would happen if someday one of those students was in a position to hire you?
You are going to find nursing hard because your tolerance for everything is so low. Good luck with that. I pray that I never have to work with you because I feel like I would have to watch my back all the time, lest I find a knife in it. You are one of the people that will help perpetuate nurses eating their young.

HOLY COW!! You have GOT to be in my class! We have a person JUST like that. Exactly.

We've got a couple girls who won't say a work because they know they're going to get a nasty remark.

DolceVita, ADN, BSN, RN · Mar 16, 2011

OMG I wrote these in my first semester of nursing school. I am nearly done with school now and cannot believe I didn't lose my mind.

Here goes....
Shut up...no, really, don't smile at me and carry on, SHUT UP.
If you want to challenge every test answer you got wrong do it on your own time. We are burning daylight here!
I don't care if your mum, dad, or anyother relative is a nurse, doctor or frankly a bloody bus driver. They are not teaching this course by proxy via YOU. SHUT UP!
No pregnancy tests CANNOT tell you who is the father. Are you kidding?
How is it that you are always just late enough to disrupt the class.
When the instructor says the class is closed five minutes after the start -- why do you think this is an invitation to come 4 minutes and 55 seconds late? Get a grip.
When you are late, don't walk in sporting coffee from the local coffee house.
Stop telling me you didn't study for the test just before it starts. Are you proud of that?
Stop trying to involve me in side conversations in class. I am trying to be polite but really want to smack you with a wet fish. You are so rude...get a clue.
It isn't necessary for you to have your phone on every class in case your family call with an emergency. My family had an emergency and campus security came to get me -- it stopped my family calling to find out where the Cheerios were (yes I can hear you when you are on the phone outside the open door of the classroom). Silly cow.
If you stopped peppering the instructor with a question every time they finish a sentence you might find they cover your question. They have covered this material for students before.
Don't tell me you have to ask the question as soon as it pops into your head or you will forget it -- see that thing next to you? It is a notebook. Apply the pen to the notebook and write the question down. Better yet, how important can it be if you forget it within 2 minutes?
Stop bringing stinky hot cafeteria food into the classroom and stabbing at it like an animal. Either eat before you come to class or learn that a fork is NOT a knife.
Stop wiping your food covered fingers onto the seats in the classroom. Get some class.
Don't assume that your life is harder than mine because you have children. It is offensive. You have NO clue about me because you will not stop talking about yourself.
Whew! That is better.

DolceVita, ADN, BSN, RN · Mar 16, 2011

HOLY COW!! You have GOT to be in my class! We have a person JUST like that. Exactly.
We've got a couple girls who won't say a work because they know they're going to get a nasty remark.

If I listen hard enough I can hear her roll her eyes. LOL

jujubee1008 · Mar 17, 2011

We are all tired of you making every lecture, pre-clinical and post-clinical experience 1/2 hour longer than is needed. We don't want to hear how everything makes you feel outrage at our healthcare system.

Please stop acting as though you should be allowed to come to class late just because you live far from school. Will you act so entitled when you get a job? FYI...employers like to fire people who are chronically late.

Don't complain about how instructors keep picking on you. Do you do your work? No? There's your answer!

Don't call me a week before a major assignment is due (which you knew about for months) and expect that I will give you the materials you need...plan ahead next time!

....so thankful it's almost over!!