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!
To my fundamentals teacher: We so didn't get it, and some of us still don't. But the way the class told you they didn't get it was not cool. I'm glad you were bought chocolates afterward, honestly, and I hope you show them what you can really do in Med-Surg this Spring.
To my psych nursing teacher: You are amazing, and the school is going to lose a lynchpin to the program when you retire in May. Thank you for the support, the helping hand and the shoulder to cry on when I needed it.
To my 101 clinical proctor: You were the first one to prove to us we had skills, we just needed to access them. It is because of your guidance a lot of us stuck it out through rough times in the course, and it's your influence that's helped shape my clinical experiences since. I hope I see you again in 202!
To the whole nursing department: You guys are nuts. All of you rushing a doctorate each while trying to teach us...and you haven't collectively been medicated yet? Impressive. I just hope it pays off with that 2+2 BSN program you're all pushing for.
"When you can't keep the information strait, how do you expect us to get the information at all?" After about 3 corrections in one sentence the information gets convoluted and no longer is an educational experience. Get a clue before you start.
To my most recent clinical instructor: Don't come to the hospital in your PJ's............This makes us all look bad, then to boot, margarita plans in front of the students...........makes us look worse. \
Its amazing, I would like to tell my teachers some of these same statements and questions. I am in my 1st semester of the nursing program and it is very hard!! So, u all will be seeing alot of me. Since, I have alot of questions, I just don't have alot of time to ask them. Like now!! lol, I am suppose to be doing my assignments. :-)
To my classroom instructors: Thank you for all you have taught me. I will take a little piece of each of you into my own practice one day.
To my clinical instructor: I know you're not full time faculty with the school, but it would help if you had an idea of the schedule and/or what we're learning in class that particular week. . . and (this one really bugs me) please don't refer to my patient as "pretty pathetic". . . not in front of me or my classmates.
You know how that one student is always coming to you, crying because they don't feel like 'part of the group' and the others make fun of their disability? Before you tell off the rest of the class, you might want to ask around...most of the class didn't even know about this 'disability' until you mentioned it, and the reason we don't talk to them is because they have a habit of inflating casual remarks into catastrophic problems, then running off to the director with 'concerns' about client safety.
Them: How was your weekend?
Me: Oh, it was good. I had some people over for drinks on Friday, nothing big, but it was nice to let my hair down a bit. Then I studied for the quiz. How about you?
Them: I had to work. See you later!
Next thing I know, I'm being asked if I drink the night before clinicals, and if I've ever come to class hung over. Coincidence? I think not. I'm not the only one this has happened to. The only common factor in all this person's failed relationships is THEM.
The institution made the best decision they could have possibly made in improving the program by hiring you.
You make me proud to say I will be a nurse someday and I hope I can handle situations with the knowledge, command, and grace that you display every day.
Thank you so much! This could not have been a more wonderful first semester of Nursing School.
There are presenters of information, and instructors of information (teachers). When you spend all of your time putting cute little cartoons, and music into power points which your PRESENT to the class then you are just basically an entertainer. We do NOT need to be entertained, and honestly it's really not that great. We need you to teach us. Stop with the power points all ready.....just throw the projector away. Spend your time THINKING, and PLANNING creative ways to TEACH us the information so we understand it....don't just present it to us (we are old enough to read it ourselves). Use the dry erase marker, and draw on the board so we can SEE what your talking about, explain the concepts, bring the material to life.
If you can't teach then for gods sake just give us the semesters worth of power points to print, and let us stay home, and use the time to study instead of wasting 5 hours week sitting in your class for no reason.
If you do NOT want to write letter of recommendation for someone. Just be a BIG GIRL and say no!
Geez, just one word, NO!
Quit wasting an individual's time, energy and getting their hopes up, just to hand them some mediocre scribble of a reference letter.
You drone on during class how being forward and honest is the way to be a "good" Nurse, so why, when individuals ask for a recommendation, do you smile excitedly and exclaim, "Yes!" just to write some lame POS that the student will not/can not use?
1 - Don't lie to us. We're not stupid! I know you didn't write that exam and so does everyone else.
2 - Be fair. If you're going to allow stipulations for some, you have to allow them for everyone.
3 - Stop telling us to not dwell on the specifics so much and focus on the general when you intend to put VERY SPECIFIC questions on exams.
4 - Could you please try to be a little more organized? It is reflecting poorly on all of your students.
5 - When you say you're going to do something, please follow-through. If you don't know when you'll have things graded and grades posted, don't promise us they'll be up tomorrow only to make us wait two more weeks.
6 - Please don't debate with the entire class that an answer is wrong when the phrase is written WORD FOR WORD in more than three text books.
7 - You preach to us to be adults and admit when you're wrong. Hello, Ms. Kettle? This is Ms. Pott. I believe you may be black.
motivated2nurse
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THESE ARE THINGS THAT I HAVE THOUGHT RECENTLY
Perhaps, if you get off your rump and show me, I'll know what you are talking about.
Can you learn with someone yelling at you?
My ticket to class is the cash I paid for this class!