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

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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! :)

(to all of them) We just started nursing school two days ago. Here is to hoping we all make it! And get along for the next two years!

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Thank you for being there for me when I found out I was getting held back a year! You were probably the only reason I stayed somewhat - and it's still questionable to this day - mentally sane! ;)

Thank you for letting me randomly cry at all hours of the day & night because I felt like my world was collapsing in around me!

Thank you for not lecturing me while I was venting to you because you seemed to be the only person around who knew that was what I needed!

Thank you to EVERYONE who very much surprised me & offered me support & words of encouragement! You girls were my rock & the reason I am coming back to kick that class in the rear this semester! I never knew half of you even cared about me that much & I hope that I can call each & every single one of you friends for the rest of my life!

Thank you to the people who stood by me & knocked me back into reality when I - for some odd reason - started acting like the other 'mean girls' in class!

Thank you to my one Professor who instead of turning me away from her office when I hysterically burst out into tears pulled me into her office, sat me down, gave me a box of tissues, let me cry it out and offered me words of support & strength!

Thank you to the girls who I thought were my real friends but turned their backs on me & ignored me when I needed a friend the most! Oh so now you find out you didn't meet the test average for a class & want to call me crying because you "needed someone to talk to who knows what you're going through"? I'll go ahead & listen but only because I want you to look back at how big of an *** you were to me & how be a real friend to someone! But don't ever expect me to call you my friend again!

And thank you to my family & my amazing boyfriend! You have all offered me so much help, support, & love! Without each & every one of you I wouldn't be here today pushing forward!

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DolceVita...u r a superstar! I couldn't stop laughing...I had tears streaming down my face. Brilliant!!

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Specializes in ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine.

- there are many "right" ways to do most of the things. You're completely free to adopt one you saw somewhere, or devise your own; nobody should care as long as things which supposed to be sterile stay that way. So PLEASE do not stay behind my shoulder in the lab pouring critiques. Instructors are there and they're paid for doing just that.

- if scrubs/uniforms are not required for class, it doesn't mean that you can wear your wrinkled pink PJs, flops and the earrings of the size of shower hoops in there.

- aren't there any other means of self-expression in our (presumably) free society except getting yet another tattoo???

- your teacher/instructor is here in order to teach you things she and other folks much smarter than you consider important for your future job. She isn't paid for loving you, pampering you and generally being "cute". If you want all that, you may as well get a good boyfriend.

-If you think that your teacher is "too strict", just square it... and you'll get an average nurse manager, under whose evil eye you'll have to spend the rest of your exiting career.

-if I don't share details of my life on Facebook, it doesn't mean I'm "unfriendly".

- if you are asked something about a medicine, you should't fish out your iPhone while saying "excusemejustasec... there's an app..."

-if an assignment put online, it doesn't mean it is for group work unless instructor specifically says so.

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Just because you sat there once doesn't mean that seat belongs to you.

You guys are awesome, I'm honored to be a part of this class.

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.

Just because you were too cheap to buy the required study guide/workbook doesn't mean that I am willing to loan you my completed workbook for you to take to the office supply store to copy and turn in as your own. Nice try though.

If you are too lazy to do the assignments (with the most of the answers in the text or the back of the book) don't expect to copy of those that do. Perhaps that is why you are not passing the daily quizzes/tests? (Instructor actually uses some of the assignment questions on our tests.)

You talk about me behind my back. You never speak to me unless you want something (either an answer or to "borrow" my work to "check" yours). You rarely have anything nice to say to me or about me. Yet you can't understand why I won't accept you as a "friend" on Facebook? Hm, yeah okay.

Blaming certain classmates for 'telling' on you was rather stupid when YOU posted on Facebook that you were missing class to take a "much needed" 3-day vacation to out of state---complete with photos on the beach with a date stamp! Maybe you shouldn't have brought in a fake doctors note to explain your greater than 2 day absence from school and you wouldn't have had to meet with the program director to sign a disciplinary form. You're lucky you're still in the program!

And there are somethings that I do not need to know about others--like the color of your thong, colorful boxers, and/or brightly colored lace bra (various individuals not all on the same person :) ) totally visible through your white clinical uniform. (Though some of the patients figured it out hence why they kept "dropping' things for you to bend over & pick up.)

What part of don't wear tight pants/club clothes to the locked, involuntarily committed psych unit did you not understand? Yes, you are the reason security rushed over & escorted the group out of the building shortly after arriving on the floor. The patients pressed up against the windows making gestures? Yes that was just for you. Ignorance is not an excuse, just because you wear hip huggers to clubs doesn't make the tight lycra blend pants with a snug lower cut sweater "professional attire".

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You act like a "know it all"!

Sometimes a fellow student may not understand something and may need help! That does not mean they are stupid.

Some people take longer to get things, that does not mean they won't do well in the program.

If we all study hard and try our best, we can all pass the program! So never ask anyone how did they get into the program.

How is a certain someone in the program? Well, it's because they passed their exam to get in. So shut up and stop acting like you have a better brain than everyone else.

Nursing is hard and I can say it if I choose to, that does not mean I am complaining.

Some of you are nice and the others, not so much! Either way, when this program is over, bye bye!

I want to be a nurse to help others!

Nurses do not all have to work in the hospital!!

Build your fellow students up, not down. We are all in this together!

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Talking crap about the teachers on the first day makes you look bad.

Don't think that I will not be as successful or that I'm immature just because I'm younger that you.

You are an awesome buddy and I'm glad we'll have clinicals together! You are so wonderful and supportive and you make me laugh out loud! Nos caemos bien :)

I can feed the school squirrels if I want to feed them!!!

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Once and for all, NO ONE cares that your wife is a nurse manager at what is probably the worst hospital on the eastern seaboard. Stop telling every single person you see because they don't care either. And I'm sick of hearing about it.

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To the girl in my nutrition class who programmed her graphing calculator with her nutrition notes and used it on the test, "I was the one who told the professor that you and other girls were doing that. That's the reason we weren't allowed to use graphing calculators on the final. Maybe next time you'll think before posting on facebook about how much your graphing calculator trick helped you on your last test. I really hope you don't do well this semester, because I don't know how much more of your cheating I can handle."

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Quit talking about your kids. Half of the women here have kids. I have a kid. It doesn't make me special, and it certainly doesn't make you special. Being exceptionally fertile does not make you any more interesting to the rest of us.

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I don't care if your mom, sister, uncle, brother and cousins are all nurses. That dose not make you a nurse. I also don't care if your mom told you that's not the way they do it at her hospital.

Oh- you have a master's degree and graduated with honor's. What does that have to do with nursing?

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