Through the Hoops

[runningbull]

Any other nursing students out there feel like all you do is jump through hoops? I feel more like a whale at sea world than a college student. All I do is "jump through hoops" and perform tricks so I can get a grade and move on to the next one. Instead of learning, we make portfolios, change projects, process recordings, write journals, etc etc.. Semester one, I figured out the hard way that it's better to lie on a care plan, make up irrelevant data for diagnoses, and say I did bogus interventions than to truthfully put what I actually did that day at clinicals. Semester 2, I talked to my peers and found out each of our professors had been grading the same assignments differently (even though they have a rubric they are supposed to grade by???). So then I learned how each of my sea-world trainers(professors) wanted my tricks(BS busywork) performed so I could please them and pass the class. I seriously don't think I have learned anything important in school the past 2 years since I got into nursing school and stopped taking real college classes.

Sorry for the negativity btw, I love actual nursing and can't wait to be a nurse, but am just fed up with school.

[kgh31386, BSN, MSN, RN]

I'm going to bullet point this one. sorry ahead of time if this sounds mean. I've gone through the BSN and MSN programs, so...here goes

-Falsifying documentation, you should quit nursing now

-You're a student, you're there to learn

-You can't love actual nursing because A. you're a student and haven't taken the time to see what nursing really involves, B. you admit you haven't learned anything. C. you don't sound willing to learn the basics

-What seems to be BS busywork is the foundation of nursing. If you look at Nurse Administrators they do change projects, look at change agents, quality improvement projects, etc

-What nurses do on a daily basis are the things you write out in a careplan

-If your careplan says you haven't done anything, take the initiative to find more to do or a more difficult patient

-Rubric? Rubric says you have to have X, Y, and Z in an assigment. I you're X lacks in content, research, structure, grammar, etc. then yes it will be graded differently.

-If you haven't learned anything in 2 years, that's your fault for not voicing your concern to them or changing programs

[mikasa]

2 years of nursing school and you haven't learned anything?! What have you been doing? Within 2 weeks of a new semester my brain wants to explode with the all the new information.

[Oraelo]

Seems like you actually spend more time figuring out how to do things your way than you would if you did things the way you are supposed to.

If you ever do scheme your way into an RN license please let us know where u will be working so i can avoid that place like the plague.

[Oraelo]

Seems like you actually spend more time figuring out how to do things your way than you would if you did things the way you are supposed to.

[CountryMomma, ASN, RN]

Nope, I don't feel like that. I often feel that there is way too much paperwork, but that's school. Oh well.

I can't believe that not only do you falisify your patient data, but that you admitted it on this board. Are you sure you don't have another classmate or an instructor reading?

Paperwork is a part of nursing, from what I've seen. Welcome to nursing.

Also, don't take your classmate's word for what they get on their grades.

[runningbull]

I apologize, this was a poorly written post. I would think the same thing all of you are if I would have read this from somebody else. I should not have used the word "lie" when describing my care plans, I have not ever made up information on a care plan or described what I called "bogus" interventions. I meant to say that I have to be careful with the way I word things, such as my interventions, on my care plans or else I will not get a good grade. And yes, I have learned a lot in school. I realized this when I took a moment to look back to my first semester and saw how far I have come since then. The school I go to is actually one of the best in Tx and I hope with everything that I have that I will be a good nurse after it's all over. I guess the stress of nursing school just got to me when I wrote this post.

Again, my sincere apology to anyone who read this post, it truly was disgusting and rude.