There is a thread I subscribed to in general nursing that is "things you'd love to tell a coworker" (or similarly titled) and I've loved following it! I think we nursing students need one!
I'll start.....
1. Student: No, I do not think it is appropriate that we all agree up front to give each other perfect scores on a group project. I probably would have given you one, though, if you hadn't plagiarized most of your part.
2. Faculty: When you give us a question that does not imply "pick the best answer", and I am able to prove to you why two answers listed are, in fact, equally correct according to our textbook, it fills me with rage when you tell me I still got it wrong.
3. Faculty: It was so unbelievably inappropriate that you shared with us in clinical post conference that babies are a gift from god, we shouldn't interfere with the process of natural conception, and people should "just" adopt. You have every right to your opinion, whether I agree or not, but this is an academic setting and you don't know the first thing about any of us, including our reproductive health status or how we were conceived.
4. Faculty: Your judgment about why I'm going into nursing and whether my physical limitations will slow me down was not appreciated. It was also not appreciated when you advised me to give up.
5. Students in my cohort in general: Not to go all sappy on you or anything, but you have renewed my faith in your generation and you have uplifted my spirit on so many occasions. It has been such a joy knowing you and going through all of this with you. I hope with all my heart we stay in touch after graduation.
6. Faculty: You may not realize this, but you made the smallest side comment to me one day that touched my heart in such a way that has kept me committed and passionate in my goals. Sometimes it's the smallest gestures that go the longest ways, and my appreciation for you is endless. Thank you!
Anyone else have anything they've been holding back???
Students: Be aware that some of your peers are struggling with multiple jobs kids and personal issues. Please don't brag openly that "the test was so easy only a moron would fail it" in front of others or say that anyone who didn't get an A like you shouldn't be a nurse. Please remember that not every student has a mother to do their laundry or 60 hours a week to study. Everyone is doing their best under varied circumstances. [/quote']
Specializes in Pharmaceutical Research, Operating Room.
Faculty: If you continually mistake and misuse "conscience" for "conscientious" or "pacifically" for "specifically," perhaps you shouldn't be critiquing our term papers for "sentence structure."
^^^^^^THIS!!!!!! PLEASE learn how to speak English properly before you come talk to us about "graduration"!!!!
Student: In post-conference, after saying that you thought a patient's medical problem was based on the fact that they had "bad humors and evil spirits around them" and an "imbalance of black and green bile", I realized that, if I ever see you coming at me if I'm hospitalized, I'll throw you out of my room so fast it'll make your head spin!!!
^^^^^^THIS!!!!!! PLEASE learn how to speak English properly before you come talk to us about "graduration"!!!! Student: In post-conference after saying that you thought a patient's medical problem was based on the fact that they had "bad humors and evil spirits around them" and an "imbalance of black and green bile", I realized that, if I ever see you coming at me if I'm hospitalized, I'll throw you out of my room so fast it'll make your head spin!!![/quote']
I graduate in April so I'm not concerned with it....and luckily my experience is only about me and I have classmates ive bonded with :) But if I could say one thing.... it scares me that youre graduating in 2 months and still dont know blood flow through the heart. You scare me. Sincerely The Ghost of A&P 2.[/quote']
This blows my mind, too. I have a few in my cohort like this. I've decided that the cardiovascular system must be akin to math. Some people get it, some people don't. Me, I love that it's one giant loop, so you think through it. This was my saving grace in health assessment, when we were talking about where you would hear different valves. Also, in peds and maternity, when we talked about newborn heart stuff. If you can trace the path of blood flow, you don't have to strictly memorize. You can think it through.
To that one student in every class/clinical: stop answering every question the professor asks give someone else a chance. And stop cutting off the professor and finishing her sentences. We get it, you're a know it all. And if you know everything, why are you here. Shouldn't you already have your PhD?[/quote']
When I took chem 1, I sat next to this girl who talked under her breath during the ENTIRE class, about who knows what, but even worse than that, if I raised my hand to ask a question, literally the entire time the instructor tried to answer my question, she talked over the instructor. Not subtly, either. Loudly, and blatantly, trying to answer the question OVER the instructor. OMG. I moved seats as quickly as I possibly could to the complete opposite side of the room.
Wow! Just Wow! That is absolutely shameful.[/quote']
Yeah, I was quite appalled. I have a classmate going through IVF right now, and I was sure to send her a text to warn her about this instructor because I knew this would NOT go well for her. The comment was in response to the ethics discussion we were supposed to have. I could easily see this instructor making the same comment to the other groups of students because it was her view of the ethics debate.
Faculty: If you continually mistake and misuse "conscience" for "conscientious" or "pacifically" for "specifically" perhaps you shouldn't be critiquing our term papers for "sentence structure." [/quote']
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh I have a "pacific"er right now and it makes me CRAZY!!!!!! You would think by the time someone gets a masters degree, they would know how to pronounce common words!!!!!!!
As a nurse to a student: "Oh so you are a nursing student? Please tell me how you know everything about nursing."[/quote']
Man, I don't know how it is possible for someone to even have that much confidence as a nursing student. For real. There is WAY too much to learn before I start spouting off to those I work around with any level of authority or confidence.
Faculty: If you continually mistake and misuse "conscience" for "conscientious" or "pacifically" for "specifically," perhaps you shouldn't be critiquing our term papers for "sentence structure." And if the 240 pages you assigned in the textbook contradict your PowerPoint, be adult enough to admit you made an error and give us the points on the test.
Oh my heavens....I had an instructor JUST LIKE THIS 35 years ago....except we didn't have power points in my day.....she DROVE ME NUTS!
To students please don't be rude when I know how detailed is an assignment is and you disrespectfully ignore me when I said something about it the first place...you wonder why it took you so long?
Students: Common sense not so common these days, eh?
Faculty: Prep students for "real world" nursing instead of just "NCLEX hospital" nursing. It helps the shell shock when they actually step on a unit. Rainbows and stardust and happy people don't always exist.
Student: Is there a pathology that doesn't exist in your family? Your stories don't contribute anything to the lecture our instructor is giving. "My 2nd uncle twice removed had PAD." - No one cares. Jenny* has worked in a CVICU and I am sure she's seen hundreds of patients with PAD. You don't see her bragging. (Disclaimer: I know I'm a jerk)
Faculty: Do you review the PowerPoints (that you likely downloaded somewhere on the Internet) before you give your lecture? It really kills our confidence in you as an instructor if you can't pronounce half of the medical words in your lecture. I certainly would not think less of an instructor if she put the trade name of a drug instead of the generic name.
Student: In post-conference, after saying that you thought a patient's medical problem was based on the fact that they had "bad humors and evil spirits around them" and an "imbalance of black and green bile", I realized that, if I ever see you coming at me if I'm hospitalized, I'll throw you out of my room so fast it'll make your head spin!!!
I can't think of a better reason for use of modern, evidence-based practice than to counter a student who espouses the beliefs of Aristotle, Galen, and Hippocrates. I get frustrated when people still give dorsogluteal injections!
Faculty- Please do not read the powerpoint that you did not even make and call it a lecture. Students have homework and so do YOU. Every lecture should be organized and like essays should have a introduction, body and conclusion. When we ask you a question please answer it or say, "I am not sure of that answer, let me look that up and get back to you."
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