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!
You seem like a nice person however your teaching skills sucks. I feel like I taught myself this term. Not all people are destine to teach. And you have taken on too many responsibilities; you're teaching online classes, you're teaching at a local college AND you work part time and teach at your hospital you work at......Really, is the pay that bad?
-Thank you for being organised and presenting well constructed and up to date relevant lectures.
-Thank you for returning our essays on time with constructive criticisms that are legible and supporting us with placements.
2.To my year two lecturers, what the heck happened?
-you cancelled important lectures and never rescheduled them and the lectures that we did have were out of date (some from the early 90's),totally irrelevant or repeated themselves from the previous term, not to mention you were late 90% of the time
-one of you can barely speak English and talks non stop about how wonderful he is and how we should all be grateful for him teaching us(well teaching is a bit of a stretch as it was just endless reading from powerpoint)
-You lost essays and claimed that the students never handed them in and threatened to fail us despite us having our receipts showing that we had submitted them and then the essays showing up on your desks 6 months later!!
-You also changed the due dates of assignments and failed to let us know.
-You changed the 'goalposts' for the essays that you set us so we rarely knew what we were doing.
And you still wondered why half the class left?
3.Year three team,
-thank you for all the extra work that you have put in to ensure that my group is able to complete the course.
What I would like to say to one or two my RN instructors would probably get me banned from allnurses due to inapproriate content that would make a hooker blush...
I'm glad to see that many of you didn't have that experience.
When I ask you a question, I expect that you answer it. Do NOT just turn your back to me and smile. Don't forget, it's the students that are paying the tuition to keep you in a job. I respect you, I expect respect in return.
Roll your eyes. One. More. Time. And Jesus will make them STUCK in that position.
When I ask for help, what is with that "Whatchoo want?" look on your face? Duh! I need your help with something!! Hello???? McFly!
Every time I see you, you're looking down texting your friends about "Vampire Diaries" or "Glee." You're the teacher! Set an example! If I did that, I'd get a clinical warning or get thrown out of the program! Maybe I should just report you.
You can brag all you want about how you were a top student in high school, college, all the academic awards you've won and your previous nursing jobs. Honey, you have the social graces of something stuck to the bottom of my shoe and you have no people skills. Nada.
Please stop playing favorites. The nasty cigarette reeking girl with 5 kids by 4 different baby daddies is late to EVERY clinical. She shows up with filthy uniforms with that hacking cigarette cough that stops to no end. She'll try to correct people in clinical, and we know she e-mails you with what she "saw" (i.e. tatttles) in clinic that day. We know this because she sent one of those e-mails to the clinical group by mistake. Well, come Monday morning, I'm dropping a copy in the program director's mailbox with my own note explaining how you let this student get away with all this drama. Oh, karma is a BEE-YOTCH!
Why must you got to the back of a rather large lecture hall and speak like you're trying to whisper in church?
One of our instructors will put up the powerpoint (ours actually use theirs), and go to the back of the room. Now, generally speaking, yes, I can read what is on the slide and take it from there. But, when you start adding "Oh, and I forgot to put this on the slide" and we can't hear you, there's a reason that we all cring in fear!
BTW: This same instructor was "reported" to the program head by the president and vise president of our class! She has since started to speak up, but now she speaks faster! I guess you can't win for losing, can you?
Thank you for the stories about how you attended this school and worked at the exact hospital I hope to one day, and you tell me that you made it, so I could too! Someone that doesn't have to believe in you, and someone that's literally paid to be there, and does believe in you letting you know they have faith in you is a BIG deal!
Oh, and I almost forgot this one... Why did the LPN program only have to pay $40.00 for their drug screens while we paid $85.00? The tests were done a week apart and by the same lab!
I apologize on behalf of the other students for asking you what will be on the test constantly. But part of our collective neuroticism has been caused by you and the other instructors we have had so far. You deliberately trick us with questions that don't have a definite stem. I can bet you $100 dollars that the questions on the NCLEX are not written as badly as some of the questions on our tests so far. And sighing every time someone asks a question in class does not help much. It just makes us think you're a...I can't say the word here.
To my current clinical instructor: Thank you for your kindness and patience. And thank you for standing up for the group if we were getting unfairly picked on by the staff. You are also a good role model as far as evidence based practice goes. I wish you the best in your future career, but I do wish you would come back to teach again.
Thank you for all the compliments you handed out to me during my 1:1 test review. Im glad you see me as the intelligent person I know I am. Yes, I am happy with the grade I got on the test. Yes I know you expected my grade to be higher, based on my critical thinking skills in class. However, you dont know what Im going through in my personal life, and I that had to take the test and then take my daughter to childrens to see if they can figure out why she does some of the things she does. I got that grade with little to no studying simply because I didnt have time.
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You seem like a nice person however your teaching skills sucks. I feel like I taught myself this term. Not all people are destine to teach. And you have taken on too many responsibilities; you're teaching online classes, you're teaching at a local college AND you work part time and teach at your hospital you work at......Really, is the pay that bad?