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!
Specializes in med/surg/tele/neuro/rehab/corrections.
Oh my, yes.
There are several things you all have mentioned that I would again gladly repeat. Mostly, What were you thinking?! and Thanks.
In that order.
One of the best discussions we had a clinical was waiting time at post-conference. Our instructor related most of her nursing school stories, drinking and swearing included. That was a humorus eye-opener!
I would love to REMIND them that they've been nurses for 30+ and all the information that they know....they've learned thoughout the years........not in one semester of nursing school!!!!!!
I had an instructor who was very proud of failing student . I would love to tell her that those students that she failed are far better nurses than her and I would not allow my dog to go to that hospice she claimed to work part time for so many years. She is a poor excuse for a nurse and a human being like her should be teaching the animals on the farms instead.
While I love my instructors there are some things I just don't understand and would love to ask them..
1) Why are you so upset that I asked you to explain this to me?
2) If you don't know the answer to the question how are we supposed to know?
3) If its not in the book and you did not cover it in lecture WHY IS IT ON THE TEST?
To one particular instructor
I wish that I could take you through the entire program with me. You are such a great nurse and I strive to be like you. You are tough and you know your stuff. I hated to leave you class however I am taking everything I have learned with me.. Thank you so much!:wink2:
Specializes in med/surg/tele/neuro/rehab/corrections.
I had an instructor, that when a student in our class asked her a question about what this word meant that she was using, told everyone to open their books to that chapter and start reading and doing their homework. I was disturbed by this because it was a word the teacher was using a lot that day, was not in Tabers, and I wanted to know what it meant also. We never did learn that word. Now I have forgotten it.
Now on the other hand, I learned to do my homework and reading before class and to never ask questions of her.
BTW we never did find that word in our books either. No one learned that word.
Since we students learned to look busy and be quiet when our teacher came in we all opened our books and were reading and doing a paper that was given to us earlier in the morn. She walked in and the teacher then didn't want to teach us because we were busy doing something else and bade us continue to read and study while she stood at the front of the class watching us for 20 minutes.
We always felt like we were being punished for something. It was very frustrating.
It makes it hard to sit and listen to all of you lecture us about the dangers of overweight and obese when you yourselfs are all very very overweight. Not just 10-20 lb overweight but huge. Maybe you need to practice what you preach it is hard to listen to you guys with a straight face.
I work my a** off for my grades. Keep it fair to the fullest extent possible--don't allow people to "get by"!
Do not bash my actions in front of patients. I am not incompetent--I am a student.
Be on time. I am paying YOU to teach--I don't get much out of this if you don't teach. Your paycheck rests on my evaluation--remember that!
You are not as FREAKING perfect as you like to think you are--do not expect me to be--I am already giving you everything I have!
*Thank you! For positive reinforcement and for making me do things I didn't necessarily want to do..for giving me patients with pages and pages of history and more than 30 meds...for reviewing things with me...for answering my many questions....the list goes on....
not only did you help me and my husband 11 years ago when our first newborn was so sick in the er, you brought out confidence in me i never knew i had. i still hear your voice in my head during difficult shifts, and i will carry the deep impression you made on me forever. i hear myself saying the same things to my 10-year-old daughter that you said to me in school. (she wants to be a nurse someday too.) thank you for not making me feel like the more i suffered at school, the better a nurse i would be. you are truly a gift to port charlotte, and you have made a huge difference in my life and that of my family.
Okay, so I haven't started my nursing classes yet, but here's what I would like to say to my pre-requisite class instructors:
To my statistics teacher: Thank you for BARELY speaking English, and for passing me with a B solely because I went to lab, where the TA was a better teacher than you and spoke clear English.
To my Comp 1 teacher: Thanks for warning us the day after it was too late to drop semester classes that you have only given a total of 6 students throughout the years an A. THANKS.
To my Microbiology teacher: Thanks for favoring certain students over others. Even if I was one of the favored ones. Thanks for reading notes word for word and not teaching us a single thing. Thanks for your tests where I had no idea what was going on, yet still passed with an A. You are a pervert and need to quit looking down girls' shirts. Also, thank you thank you thank you for having an affair with a student (while you have a wife and just had your first child) and only getting probation for it.
I always like it when the instructor SWEARS she mentioned said info in her lecture and the whole class can vouch that uh...no you didnt
LOL, that's a good one.
In my Advanced Med/Surg 1 class, we were going over the Perioperative chapters. Test comes, and question number 1 is a question about "Empacho."
Never heard of it? It's a cultural relativity question. "Empacho" is the Hispanic/Latino (Or more specifically Mexican) concept of an impacted stomach. The correct answer was "C) arrange for a Curandero to meet with the client." I checked the book and all of the notes and the taped lecture. That was NEVER mentioned anywhere.
After our instructor handed out the tests, the class collectively exclaimed "What the hell is "Empacho"? Freaking priceless!
Now I have forgotten it.
Faeriewand, ASN, RN
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Now THAT would have been fun!