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!
NO we arent interested in GROUP projects cuz theres always 1 bee that doesnt do the work
NO i dont want group discussions also!
No i dont want POSTS Online that take 2 hours to respond to , andyour lazy aSS cant grade them on time
REVIEWING exams, I have the RIGHT to see my exam and the test ?s how can i know what i got wrong and what i answeered,,,, goshhh the deans gonna hear about this!!!
PS, you hated nursing and obviously hate teaching it, just retire already and make room for us to get jobs when we graduate ok ?
Summer is over. Put away the short shorts and the knee socks and flip flops. No matter what time of year, that type of attire is inappropriate anyway. If you're dressing like that to get a guy's attention, it's not working: they're making fun of you when you're not looking. You're a nursing student. Stop dressing like a streetwalker.
If I hear the BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP from your phone because you have a message, I'm going to shove it up your a**. Turn it off, already.
Form now on, when you ask me what I got on my quiz/exam, my answer will be "I got a 50. My grades are improving." Or, the next time you ask me, I will tell you my grade if you tell me the last time you had your menstrual period.
Deodorant is a good thing. Soap and water are good things. Skanky body odor covered up with cheap perfume IS NOT a good thing. For whatever reason, you smell like cat pee all the time. People that smell that way usually don't notice it, but the rest of the class (and college) know.
Here's a new one: When you sneeze, can you sneeze into a tissue, at least. Yeah, I know you're the one that brags that she got a 99.9 on the asepsis and sterility exam. Now practice what you've learned.
Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
Summer is over. Put away the short shorts and the knee socks and flip flops. No matter what time of year, that type of attire is inappropriate anyway. If you're dressing like that to get a guy's attention, it's not working: they're making fun of you when you're not looking. You're a nursing student. Stop dressing like a streetwalker.
If I hear the BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP from your phone because you have a message, I'm going to shove it up your a**. Turn it off, already.
Form now on, when you ask me what I got on my quiz/exam, my answer will be "I got a 50. My grades are improving." Or, the next time you ask me, I will tell you my grade if you tell me the last time you had your menstrual period.
Deodorant is a good thing. Soap and water are good things. Skanky body odor covered up with cheap perfume IS NOT a good thing. For whatever reason, you smell like cat pee all the time. People that smell that way usually don't notice it, but the rest of the class (and college) know.
Here's a new one: When you sneeze, can you sneeze into a tissue, at least. Yeah, I know you're the one that brags that she got a 99.9 on the asepsis and sterility exam. Now practice what you've learned.
This is the thread for Instructors not students. But I do have a question for this last one. Ummmmm how the heck can a person sneeze into a tissue if they don't even know they were going to sneeze. I don't just walk around with a tissue in hand in case I might sneeze.
NO we arent interested in GROUP projects cuz theres always 1 bee that doesnt do the work
NO i dont want group discussions also!
No i dont want POSTS Online that take 2 hours to respond to , andyour lazy aSS cant grade them on time
REVIEWING exams, I have the RIGHT to see my exam and the test ?s how can i know what i got wrong and what i answeered,,,, goshhh the deans gonna hear about this!!!
PS, you hated nursing and obviously hate teaching it, just retire already and make room for us to get jobs when we graduate ok ?
STOP hiding behind the buzzwords "critical thinking" when you are asked about your horrible exam questions. You would not recognize critical thinking if it fell out of the sky, landed on your face, and started to wriggle.
To my third semester med-surg clinical instructor: When you are having a bad day, don't take it out on us. Do not berate, belittle, and talk to us as if we were 12 years old in front of patients. For goodness sake, one patient asked a student "Is she your instructor?" after you left the room; when the student answered "yes," the patient commented, "I feel sorry for you, honey." And when you enter a room and greet a patient, PLEASE do not call them by the wrong name. And don't do it again after I correct you! While we're on the subject, don't call me by another student's name and refer to her with my name. We look nothing alike!
To my third semester med-surg clinical instructor: Please, don't be insane about the care plan to the point that we have to describe in teeny, minute detail how to take a pulse or blood pressure in the interventions. Trust that I know how to do that by now. Instead, focus on the med writeups or labs as well, so I know I am getting it right. When you pass meds with me, take the time to quiz me about the meds in the med room and verify the amount I have drawn up. You should see that I want to discuss my meds as we walk to the patient's room and I am randomly offering up side-effects, how long I push an IV for, and stop just before we enter the room and ask, "Will you check to see that I have the correct amount?" Don't be so cavalier about it; I could kill someone with a mistake. It's every bit as important as the care plan that you freak out about each week. On the flip side, thanks for having confidence in me and not breathing down my neck while I perform a procedure, while being a silent observer who has my back if I need it. You intimidated me at first but I think you have been a great person to guide me and not demean me as I fumble and learn.
When I feel a sneeze coming on, I sneeze into my shoulder, into the fabric. But since 99% of students wear halter tops to class, that wouldn't apply, either.
When I feel a sneeze coming on, I sneeze into my shoulder, into the fabric. But since 99% of students wear halter tops to class, that wouldn't apply, either.
Even when I wear a tank top I sneeze onto the flesh of my shoulder or crook of my arm and not my hand. I can just imagine spreading all of my germs all over the place. :barf01:
Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
Sorry Mi Vida Loca, wrong thread.
When I feel a sneeze coming on, I sneeze into my shoulder, into the fabric. But since 99% of students wear halter tops to class, that wouldn't apply, either.
I sneeze into my arm by my elbow. Since sneezing is so random I was just trying to figure out how you expected students to sneeze into a tissue. Anyway, no biggie, that one just made me do a double take.
I sneeze into my arm by my elbow. Since sneezing is so random I was just trying to figure out how you expected students to sneeze into a tissue. Anyway, no biggie, that one just made me do a double take.
Maybe people carry them in their bras? I should try that LOL!
1: Screw you. Really. You are a horrible professor, and it is obvious to all of us that you don't care if we learn. Also, you can't talk to us like we're four years old, then turn around and tell us we're college students and need to learn to think. You can't have it both ways. I despise you, and you are the reason I am thinking of switching majors as well as schools.
2: You are a wonderful woman, and I am lucky to have met you. There should be more professors like you in the world. If I do leave the school, I would miss you most of all.
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KittyinNj
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NO we arent interested in GROUP projects cuz theres always 1 bee that doesnt do the work
NO i dont want group discussions also!
No i dont want POSTS Online that take 2 hours to respond to , andyour lazy aSS cant grade them on time
REVIEWING exams, I have the RIGHT to see my exam and the test ?s how can i know what i got wrong and what i answeered,,,, goshhh the deans gonna hear about this!!!
PS, you hated nursing and obviously hate teaching it, just retire already and make room for us to get jobs when we graduate ok ?
:)