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!
1. If they can become a nurse I shouldn't have any problems...lol
2. Excuse me do you know your meds???
i used #1 last week in clinical.
i also told one clinical instructor i didnt learn anything in her rotation. however i learned everything i need to know in my next with a different instructor.
Vicious, mean, and completely unprofessional is how you treat me - and my eval will reflect these flaws in you. Oh, and BTW? I will become an awesome nurse despite how you are. You're only an adjunct CI. They don't have to hire you back if enough students are brave enough to write the truth about how you are.
1) Unavailable. Can't find you. Oh that's because you're down in the cafe on a "2 hr" dinner break jawing with your "pets".
2) At least an hour late to clinical almost every single time. Yes, you do call first, and inform us of your incessant tardiness, but after the second time I've grown weary of this, and have lost respect for you.
3) You are on your cell ALL OF THE TIME. Control Freak! Developmental Age, according to Erickson is somewhere in the midst of Adolesence. It's obvious you only agreed to take us on for $ reasons. Your heart's not into teaching us, and your behavior screams of this.
4) I am a self taught student because I need to learn this stuff, despite how you are, or how you chose to act.
5) You are a very poor example of what type of nurse I would like to be. If any of us acted like you do, we would have been kicked out of this program long ago.
Enjoy your stipend, because after my eval, this may be the last year you'll be enjoying it.
Aww, that felt good getting that out. Now I can go get a good night sleep because my stomach is no longer in a knot.
I would like my instructors to remember that we are students!!!!! We want to learn, please teach us and stop trying to "break" us. We aren't horses but human beings. Teach with patience and kindness. We will still learn!
Silly me! When you tell that class that you are going to do ABC task 'today', then I actually expect it to be one that day. But when 4 days pass and it's still not done, then I'm annoyed.
I would love to tell my teacher she is a hypocrite and doesnt teach. She talks to us by reading the slides and doesnt give us any other info. I'm pretty sure that wont go over so well though ha ha.
1. Thank you for being so strict! Maybe it will get rid of some of the people who really don't need to or care to be here, because they are wasting the time of those of us who do.
2. PLEASE don't make me work in a group for a "cumulative group grade." Half of these people are incompetent and could care less, and it's not fair that they are going to bring my grade down. It's also not fair that me and one other person do all the work in order to get a descent grade, and the incompetent, non-caring individuals benefit from it with no effort involved whatsoever. Groups are fine, just let my grade be my grade.
When another student is performing an intradermal competency on me and they put the needle in, take it out and then put it back in-more commentary is required than "beautiful bleb!"
teeniebert, LPN
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