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! :)
Hmmm...be catty on a message board by venting or cause unnecessary drama by saying it to someone's face? Sometimes all one needs is to vent somewhere like this and it's over. KWIM?
Thinking of which, I REALLY need to change my name here because I have a few things I'D like to say! That is what I get for using my real name! lol
I love this thread and it's funny and an easy way to destress for many. I don't think it's catty or juvenile, just a healthy form of letting out steam...obviously there are I think over a 1,000 responses..So lets just get back to annoying classmates..pleaseeeeeeeeeeee:yawn:
Please stop taking my answers and saying them 1 second after I do at a louder tone so you can take credit.
Stop competing with me in EVERYTHING. Get some confidence.
To the girl who sits infront of her:
Get a life. Get your nose out of the instructors rear-ends. You will not be working with the instructors, but you will probably be working with some of US one day. Enjoy you're payback for being a snotty stuck up twerp for 2 years...
To my (certain) instructors:
You do NOT own me.
Oh wow. We've got one of those, only she's not a girl, she's a woman in her 50's. She is a receptionist at an ENT's office and therefore, that allows her to know everything about everything. Interestingly enough, no matter WHAT kind of doctor, dentist, chiropractor, whatever were talking about, she's worked in those offices too. She's clearly been busy.
She does the same thing: you give an answer, and she repeats it in a louder voice like it was her original idea. She does the same thing with the instructors, she parrots their lectures as if SHE is giving it. She knows everything, she's been everywhere, she's done everything and everyone and did it better. We are ALL soooooo sick of her!
We've got another who works in a lab so that allows her to know everything about everything. She also has an incredibly annoying, LOUD voice and she NEVER. SHUTS. UP.
Whew. I cannot wait to hopefully never see of these people again....
To all the moms that was in my pediatric class....
I did not appreciate the fact that you had a "story" or new somebody who knew somebody who knew somebody with the same child hood disease. Taking 30 minutes out of lecture to share your stories was very aggravating. Thanks.
I probably already said this, but I put on my Facebook that I was gonna charge 10 bucks for every stupid birth story or kid story during mother-baby class...by the time school started last semester and people started going "When I had ASHLEE...." others would yell out "TEN DOLLARS" and the prospective storyteller would shut up. lol
At the beginning of the school year, I liked just about all of my classmates. I'm not the type of person that uses snap judgments and I usually figure, "Hey, that's part of who they are...it's not a complete deal breaker, so I'll just deal with it..."
But after looking at and working with these same people almost every day, I just want to freak out at them and bang their heads against the wall! Out of a class of 24 people, there are only 3 people who don't drive me insane. They're the only people I study with or go out for coffee with on a daily basis.
I am truly sick of the students who are constantly pandering and trying to make themselves look better than they are - like the student who brags about the fact that she could have gone to medical school (did well on her MCATs) but decided that she would be an asset to nursing. Um, hello...you barely pass your classes, no one wants to work with you, and our instructor spends most of her time with you because she doesn't want you to kill anyone.
And then there's the student who used to be a pharmacy tech. She knows EVERYTHING about meds - except their pharmacological action, what labs to look for, what nursing diagnoses may apply, and she even messes up the classes! I'm not irritated because she doesn't know anything - none of us do - but don't PRETEND you know everything, when you really don't. No wonder she's doing poorly - she's not going to get the help she needs if she acts like she knows it all.
And there's also the immature 18-19-20-somethings in the back that giggle during lecture; the student who has the need to constantly compete and be "better" than everyone; the ones who whine and complain about everything...ugh...I can't wait for this school year to be DONE.
See, my class is very different from your typical nursing class. I go to a satellite campus in a small town many miles away from the main campus. There are only 24 nursing students at my campus TOTAL and we all have every class together. No one on our campus has failed out, surprisingly. So we've had to look at and deal with the exact same people from day one.
We all start the RN/ADN program this summer...but the RN/ADN program is at the main campus, so we all have to drive and our class size will be much larger - all the LPN students from all campuses...which will make it a little easier.
Just needed to vent! Anyone else wanna do the same?
Oh wow. We've got one of those, only she's not a girl, she's a woman in her 50's. She is a receptionist at an ENT's office and therefore, that allows her to know everything about everything. Interestingly enough, no matter WHAT kind of doctor, dentist, chiropractor, whatever were talking about, she's worked in those offices too. She's clearly been busy.
She does the same thing: you give an answer, and she repeats it in a louder voice like it was her original idea. She does the same thing with the instructors, she parrots their lectures as if SHE is giving it. She knows everything, she's been everywhere, she's done everything and everyone and did it better. We are ALL soooooo sick of her!
We've got another who works in a lab so that allows her to know everything about everything. She also has an incredibly annoying, LOUD voice and she NEVER. SHUTS. UP.
Whew. I cannot wait to hopefully never see of these people again....
We have a woman in her 30's who was a pharm tech right before NS. She had to quit because the pharmacy was only open during the day and there was a schedule conflict. Anyway, she thinks she knows everything about meds and is constantly piping up in lecture saying, "Oh yeah, they use XYZ med for that or ABC med for this!". But she's totally incompetent in clinicals. She may know what the indications for certain meds are, but she doesn't know much else. She confuses beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, and ACE inhibitors. She doesn't know which diuretics are potassium wasting or potassium sparing. When our instructor asks us which labs to check for certain meds, she has no clue unless it's something obvious like warfarin and protime. She also is constantly piping up in class on certain diseases - bragging about how one of her patients in clinical had that disease and so she knows exactly how it works, blah blah blah. She thinks everyone loves her but people only put up with her because she's not the worst person in class.
Now, I'm don't believe that tests are an indicator of how smart or competent a person is - we all have those days when we don't do so hot or we get really awful test anxiety...but with certain people, I truly believe that they have no idea and use those excuses so they don't feel stupid. But then you also have those people who score really high on tests and have no idea what's going on in clinical. I just wish some of the people in my class would fail out before we go on to the RN program. If you don't understand the material now, you didn't understand most of what was going on in A&P, you'll probably never get it and you shouldn't be a nurse if you have no idea where certain body parts are!
We've got another woman in the class, I'm not sure of her age but she's probably in her 40's. I'm sorry, but she is dumb as a rock. She always has something to say during lecture and its always something wrong. After we watched some really bizarre videos following the lives of people with severe schizophrenia, she raised her hand and said "So, these problems are only short term and not progressive. No big deal." What?
She also told me she is having trouble figuring out the difference between a colostomy and a colonoscopy. We also had a return demonstration on insertion of nasogastric tubes last week. She inserted the tube into the dummy's mouth and down its throat.
During our tour of a clinical site she asked "What does ICU mean?" upon passing the labeled doors.
I always want to say "Why don't you just go home?"
Just worry about yourself. The ones who who engage in bragging are only wearing their own insecurities on their sleeves. Most of the other things you describe are just the simple foibles you'll find in almost any group of people. You don't have to like everybody, but it will sure be to your benefit to get along with everybody.
We've got another woman in the class, I'm not sure of her age but she's probably in her 40's. I'm sorry, but she is dumb as a rock. She always has something to say during lecture and its always something wrong. After we watched some really bizarre videos following the lives of people with severe schizophrenia, she raised her hand and said "So, these problems are only short term and not progressive. No big deal." What?
She also told me she is having trouble figuring out the difference between a colostomy and a colonoscopy. We also had a return demonstration on insertion of nasogastric tubes last week. She inserted the tube into the dummy's mouth and down its throat.
During our tour of a clinical site she asked "What does ICU mean?" upon passing the labeled doors.
I always want to say "Why don't you just go home?"
We have one of those too! For a minute there, I thought you were a student from my class lol. The woman in my class - this sounds bad, but it's true - looks like she spent most of her life in a bar, she just looks rough around the edges. She's a nice person, but says the dumbest things. I used to believe that there wasn't such a thing as a dumb question, but after being around her I've changed my mind.
We covered our sexual reproduction unit at the beginning of this semester. We were talking about BPH, prostates, TURP, etc. during class. Then, our instructor began talking about meds used with patients who have BPH - she likes to kind of tie our nursing class and pharm together because it helps us understand. Anyway, this woman spoke up half way through the lecture and asked, "What? So Flomax is used to increase menstrual flow?" Seriously? We were just talking about male parts - where do you come off with menstrual flow? Our instructor corrected her but to this day she still thinks it's for menstrual flow. And she records the lectures and still believes things like that. She pronounces the word "bruit" as "brute", which is fine if you haven't heard the instructor and many nurses during clinical pronounce it the other way. She also had 3 medication errors in one (1) day! Which I am still in disbelief about. They weren't about high risk meds like opioids, hypnotics, insulin - but still, how is she still here?
Just worry about yourself. The ones who who engage in bragging are only wearing their own insecurities on their sleeves. Most of the other things you describe are just the simple foibles you'll find in almost any group of people. You don't have to like everybody, but it will sure be to your benefit to get along with everybody.
Yeah, I realize this. And I still try to get a long with everyone. My irritation is just exacerbated because I spend more time with these people than with anyone else, even my family.
And I try to tell myself that it will all even out in the end - what goes around comes around and all that - but that doesn't really help my current irritability. I just needed to vent. I wish people would just focus on school and bettering themselves instead of making other people think they're smart.
Nah, I actually like most of the people in my nursing class. Each has her/his own interesting personality. Most are smart enough to keep their mouths shut in regards to past or current accomplishments. I did sit next to one of those smarties in A&P 2 years ago. She kept telling me how smart she was and was tutoring math students and wanting to take advanced math classes. She was hoping to have a double major in nursing and math. Well, she kept getting Ds on her tests and I never saw her again. She was only mildly annoying when she told me how to study for exams. Let those lovelies give you a good laugh rather than frustrate.
Controlling your thoughts and remaining positive towards them will be good practice in the future when you encounter patients, doctors, or other nurses that have less-than-pleasant personalities.
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KristeyK
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Hmmm...be catty on a message board by venting or cause unnecessary drama by saying it to someone's face? Sometimes all one needs is to vent somewhere like this and it's over. KWIM?
Thinking of which, I REALLY need to change my name here because I have a few things I'D like to say! That is what I get for using my real name! lol