If you could have an open, honest conversation with your instructors - classroom or clinical - what would you tell them?
Here are some of my thoughts:
(1) Please make sure that everyone follows the rules & meets the requirements. Don't let some students make their own rules while others work hard to follow every rule! While there are always times exceptions must be made, the same students are often getting away with everything.
(2) When I'm in clinical, please just step back and allow me to do the task I have to do. Don't stand over me asking questions! Your running commentary makes me a nervous wreck. As long as I'm doing my task correctly, observe & keep quiet! If I do something wrong, please explain it to me and give my another opportunity to prove I can do it.
(3) Please ensure your expectations are clear and consistant. If you want our weekly patient write-ups a certain way, tell us. Don't change your expectations without letting us know!! The bottom line: most of us are working so hard to do our best! Tell us what you want from us and we'll always do what we can to get a good grade!
Thank you so much for being rude, overbearing, confusing, obnoxious, and condensending, excuse my spelling, but it is 2 weeks before finals, and can I start reviewing, no I have 2 more care plans and a case study due to the next week, when do I study
Do not tell the entire class that a certain topic will not be on the test, not cover it in class, reemphisis that it will not be on the test, and then make 80% of the test questions about the topic. You are the teacher and we should be able to trust what you say.quote]
Just wondering don't you record the lectures? We have gotten test questions dropped this way.
Please, Please, Please, come prepared for lecture.
Please please, pretty please, read the text book, your lectures and the book are often incongruent.
Please, please, please, please, read the syllabus, know what subject you are suppose to be teaching.
Please be on time for lecture, we are, and you are late everyday...it's disrespectful to come to class and teach us 30-45 minutes late each day. Do you know what time class actually starts?
To all except one, thank you for your supportive caring.
To one in particular, you are a psychotic bully and need help, please see a counselor and take some meds. How you ever got a job teaching is beyond me except I guess through your contacts. Your intimidating, screaming, and terrorizing students does not make them better nurses. It wouldn't make anyone a better anything.
I am really thankful for all that you have done for me.
BUT
Would you please stop telling me to "READ,READ, READ" during what is suppose to be lecture on the subject matter. Every time you lecture - about every 10 minutes you say this... I HAVE READ every chapter assigned and what I need from you is some explination and some elaboration! Telling me over and over to do something that I have already done is NOT teaching! TEACH the material!!!!!!!
AND
SIM lab, VCE, and other rotations that do not directly involve the hospital are NOT helpful at all! THey make me want to SCREAM!
Specializes in primary care, holistic health, integrated medicine.
i am really thankful for all that you have done for me.
sim lab, vce, and other rotations that do not directly involve the hospital are not helpful at all! they make me want to scream!
thank you for letting me vent!:clpty:
really, sim lab is not helpful? i would love to know more about your feelings regarding this, as it is the "wave of the future". i, quite frankly, am not sure if the expense is worth the benefits. one of those "dolls", costs 40+ thousand dollars. a lot of instructors are very into it. your thoughts are very interesting!
I would like to say the following to my instructor:
Despite your repeated claims to the contrary when I dare so much as to check my calendar, you do not own me Monday-Friday 6 am to 5 pm.
I will make every possible arrangement to attend classes and events scheduled on non-typical days and times, but I must be given sufficient warning in order to make the changes to my schedule accordingly. One day to one week's notice is not normally sufficient to change hospital work schedules and childcare, as you should know.
Condescendingly repeating that you own me-- an adult with a full time job, a wife and a child-- is not going to win you any favors in anybody's book.
The above has been a repeated theme throughout this year, most recently brought up on Thursday when my instructor asked to do my clinical evaluation next Wednesday or Thursday. I pulled out my calendar to see which days I was scheduled to work next week, and I received yet another dose of this condescending harassment.
The good news is she is a first year instructor and after this Wednesday I will have nothing to do with her in the future.
I'm another student who feels SIM is a waste. Although this semester was my 1st SIM experience, I talked to a lot of students afterward and told them I thought it just felt so fake and something I just couldn't explain and to my surprise, they all agreed. They thought the computer program that was finally installed was much better than the actual SIM Man experience. I'd save on the $$ and go for the computer program that gives scenarios and you figure out what needs to be done. Great feedback that you can really relate to and do anytime. I remembered so much more about a patient who starts off with chest pain and goes downhill from there.
We probably need to create our own thread about this. I know that they consider sim man the way to go and are planning to have nice little sim man hospitals for everyone to practice in instead of going to the hospital as much BUT I DON't think it provides a realistic experience.
We have to go to sim lab about every 3-4 week rotation. When we go we do exactly the same prep that we do at the hospital. I find our preconferences excellent - we have a great instructor who discusses all problems that could arise and things that we need to watch for and include in careplans and assessments. THAT IS GOOD. Then you go in the room and feel like you are putting on a highschool production. It is all very fake and uncomfortable. I don't like the video camera and we can't do everything to the sim man that you can do to a real patient - he doesn't change apperance - he only tells you what is wrong and can't do that very effectively. It just seems very fake! Most of my classmates agree - it is a waste of time.
I am a former teacher (of 13 years) and I know how quickly education will "jump on a bandwagon" without thinking through the big picture. Sim man does provide good practice on a quickly changing emergency situation - where your patient was fine but suddenly went downhill. But for day to day care and assessment - I don't see the use. I should have been in the hospital giving meds, shots and starting IVs!
Just my opinion -and you know about opinions - they are like armpits - everyone has them and sometimes they stink!:nuke:
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Thank you so much for being rude, overbearing, confusing, obnoxious, and condensending, excuse my spelling, but it is 2 weeks before finals, and can I start reviewing, no I have 2 more care plans and a case study due to the next week, when do I study