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 one in particular: PLEASE LEARN APA FORMAT!! You take points off my paper for improper formatting and it is formatted correctly. I even bought the latest APA manual since I've been out of school for a while. I questioned the missing points and you could only tell me that I was wrong. I even showed you in the manual. Then you really got mad! Maybe you just don't like LPN's who return to school?
I am not an LPN returning but I have noticed that a couple of instructors at my school behave differently towards you guys. I don't mean in a good way.
I am not an LPN returning but I have noticed that a couple of instructors at my school behave differently towards you guys. I don't mean in a good way.
You should start a thread about that.
Hence the reason I NEVER divulge the info that I am currently an LPN.
If you could have an open, honest conversation with your instructors - classroom or clinical - what would you tell them?
1) Thank you for showing up early to determine patient assignments that were appropriate for my level of knowledge.
2) Thank you for listening to my career plans and trying to schedule my clinical experiences to match them.
3) Thank you for showing me that a real nurse is not above the menial tasks like cleaning the code brown off the floor while I was supporting the patient.
4) Thank you for listening to what was happening in my home life and helping to buffer me in my clinical experience.
Did I say that I had a *FABULOUS* clinical instructor?
5) Just because you're an experienced nurse and have an MS doesn't mean that your grammar is better than mine or that you know more about physiology, math, or physical science than I do... you don't.
If you are going to "teach" us IV calculations by doing half a problem on the board, don't get all ****** off when we ask questions.
Also, if you're going to mark a test question wrong that is clearly correct in the textbook, at least has a rationale for it instead of saying "I don't know why its right, I would have to look at the rationale". Um. Haven't you been nursing for nearly 40 years now??
Just so you know, your constant fawning over our classmate isn't lost on us. Neither is the fact that you've let her be team leader numerous times, or that you've let her go home early from clinical day after day, or how you allow her to make her own clinical schedule, or how much time you spend talking to her.
None of us can get in a word edgewise with you because you've always got the two class butt kissers humping your legs.
Don't think we don't notice how your hands are always all over the student with the ginormous boob job. We all notice.
Don't talk to me about being in bed and how you always "find the good spot". It makes me uncomfortable and frankly, its weird how you seem to want to tell me about it every single day.
I should appreciate how you're always bragging on me but the funny thing is, you've been doing it since day one, when you had no idea what kind of student I am.
Some of my classmates love your lasse faire attitude and the lack of supervision, but you need to realize that some of your students are dangerous and they need supervision. Of course, that would take away from your playing graba$$ with the female students.
Yes, I know what it says on pXXX in the text. I asked for another reference and/or a rationale because that made no sense to me and it's a scant, poorly worded sentence with no explanation. I guess if I wanted to learn more about that I'm just SOL? If you can't explain it either then maybe you shouldn't include that question on the exam. It's the job of a professor to direct students to additional information/resources about the lecture material if they ask. If you chose a textbook that used citations, I wouldn't have had to ask. This is the only time this semester I have emailed you with a question, and I wrote a thoughtful email. You gave me a 5 word reply sent from your cell phone. I would have gone to your office hours IF YOU HAD ANY. So, thanks for nothing. I'm sorry for trying to learn the material more in depth.
Firstly, Thank you for what you are doing:) Also, please leave your pride at the door when there's obvious mistakes on your test questions. We're all busy, we're all prone to mistakes but our grades should not have to suffer continuously on behalf of your ego.
1. Please keep yourself up to date on things taking place in the nursing field, how you did it back then is not it's done now geezzz.
2. You're one of the best clinical instructors I've ever had, even though you frustrated the heck outta me at times I wish there were more instructors like you.
3. Why are you even a clinical instructor when teaching isn't your strong point?!
4. You need to learn to teach give proper rationales and then get back to me..... hmph
Please post my final grade on the paper I handed in over 5 weeks ago! You said that you would have it back to me early this week, tomorrow is Friday and still no grade! I would finally like to call myself a graduate nurse...get it DONE!
Specializes in Psych, LTC/SNF, Rehab, Corrections.
- You suck. Your tests suck and everyone hates your class. Either quit your 2nd job or stop teaching. You obviously can't do both. Would it kill you to return things (quizzes, grades) on time...and will you please stop pulling test questions out of your a..s? Oh -- and you aren't slick, lady. If we have a scheduled lecture for the day...? LECTURE. The very next time that I waste my gas driving over hill and dale to make it to class only to have your lazy behind split us up into groups for the purpose of teaching the class? I'm driving the (expletive) back home AND I'll tell the Director why I did it, too! If I'm going to teach myself, I prefer to do it at home....
Just so you know, your constant fawning over our classmate isn't lost on us. Neither is the fact that you've let her be team leader numerous times, or that you've let her go home early from clinical day after day, or how you allow her to make her own clinical schedule, or how much time you spend talking to her.
None of us can get in a word edgewise with you because you've always got the two class butt kissers humping your legs.
Don't think we don't notice how your hands are always all over the student with the ginormous boob job. We all notice.
Don't talk to me about being in bed and how you always "find the good spot". It makes me uncomfortable and frankly, its weird how you seem to want to tell me about it every single day.
I should appreciate how you're always bragging on me but the funny thing is, you've been doing it since day one, when you had no idea what kind of student I am.
Some of my classmates love your lasse faire attitude and the lack of supervision, but you need to realize that some of your students are dangerous and they need supervision. Of course, that would take away from your playing graba$$ with the female students.
Hmm - sounds like my female Pharmacy Tech instructor was channeling your nursing instructor!
Incidentally - If you are a male student and your female instructor announces to the entire class that "I'm looking for a boyfriend", this is a very bad sign and you should probably consider dropping the class. Guess how I know this? It was both funny and pathetic - about half the class was male; of those, except for myself and one other male student all the others were 18-24 year olds. Every last one of them thought they'd just stepped into "Cougar on the Prowl 101" - surprising that the XY segment of the class had a 78% failure rate (NOT). And...she had the temerity to ask "what was wrong" about halfway through the class! Clueless? You have no idea...
Just hoping my CNA class is of a bit higher caliber!
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It was both funny and pathetic - about half the class was male; of those, except for myself and one other male student all the others were 18-24 year olds. Every last one of them thought they'd just stepped into "Cougar on the Prowl 101" - surprising that the XY segment of the class had a 78% failure rate (NOT). And...she had the temerity to ask "what was wrong" about halfway through the class! Clueless? You have no idea...
DolceVita, ADN, BSN, RN
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I am not an LPN returning but I have noticed that a couple of instructors at my school behave differently towards you guys. I don't mean in a good way.
You should start a thread about that.