I had an aweful day and need some humor to boost my mood.
O.K. I'll start.
Things I hate ablout nursing school!
When you get to clinical and your patient has been discharged, because you have to start a whole new careplan on a different patient.
When you find art history class difficult because you are trying to use critical thinking on your art exams.
When the ex-nurses aid that you have class with always tries to correct the instructor on every procedure because she "Worked as an aid for two years and that's not how they did it"
Let's vent everyone and try to add a little humor. Sometimes if I don't laugh about these things I just might cry. I'd rather laugh about them and keep some sanity (what little I have left at this point). Oh my goodness listen to me it's only October.
I must say, reading all of these threads makes me extremely grateful for my program, and I don't feel nearly so bad about my complaints. I have good, understanding instructors, decent and hardworking classmates, and clinicals/ school close by. Plus, I get to wear scrubs instead if the dreaded uniforms. Still the universal complaints apply:
1) Dealing with the financial aid office (enough said!)
2) Clinical paperwork, especially when a patient gets discharged
3) RN's who work AT A UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL and yet hate students!
4) STRESS! And instructors saying things "Take time for yourself, get a massage, have a cup of tea, take care of yourself." Sure, it's important, but when exactly am I supposed to do this? And where exactly am I supposed to get money for a massage, etc?
I dont know wether to laugh or cry at all of these posts. I have spent the last two days in orientations and had so much information shoved down me that I am just hoping I can keep my head above water for the next 8 weeks.
My biggest irritations..?
*The paramedics/ aides/ military corpsmen sp? that know it all, have done it all. :angryfire
*Asking a question and having it answered "Well, is that the right way?" or "What do you think?" :stone ARGH! If I had the answer I wouldnt be asking you! All I need is a little reassurance that I am on the right track. Not another lesson on CRITICAL THINKING!
*Instructors that keep reassuring us that they are not trying to weed us out yet having so much stuff thrown at us that we feel like we are in boot camp.
*The crisp, pure white, ironed uniforms that if you dont wear the optional white turtleneck under and white granny pants everyone sees your undies.
*Wheeling around hundreds of dollars in books that weigh a ton so you will have them "You all brought your Nutrition book today... right...?" Crap, I thought we needed the -other- SIX... hahaha.
*Being stressed with nobody to vent to that truly understands except for other nursing students. hubby: "Oh, its not that bad..."
*Getting up at 5am for clinicals. Hoping I dont have car trouble (God forbid we miss ONE or EVER be late.)
*Being told not to show up sick for clinicals, but then being told in the same breath that there are no make-ups. :stone
*Watching outdated videos in the library that show us one way to do a task, then in lab we are shown a different way. "Oh, we (instructors) havent seen that video." WHAT THE HECK???
The thing I hated most about nursing school was that feeling after a test..thinking ohhhh i surely flunked. My gf's in our study group would obsess over the questions, and get ourselves all worked up that we worried incessantly until our test scores were back. Happened with the boards as well, and back then it was a 6 week wait!
Hey, I got some unexpected downtime today! Drove 45 miles to class and when I got to my exit, my brakes didn't work (handbrake worked fine, so no disaster.) On the bright side, guess I don't have to get up early for clinicals. On the downside, I'd better get off here and call my instructor.
Nursing school has it's ups and downs, but if I go on for a BSN, it will definitely be in a better car!
I can appreciate where some of you guys are coming from, griping about L&D. I've also voiced the opinion that, is 8 weeks really necessary, when all we get is 2 days in the ED - and that's a place where so much primary care is done.
However, it's a required part of the curriculum for schools to be accredited, and a component of the NCLEX. Until that changes, we'll all have to take at least 8 weeks of maternity nursing.
I can appreciate where some of you guys are coming from, griping about L&D. I've also voiced the opinion that, is 8 weeks really necessary, when all we get is 2 days in the ED - and that's a place where so much primary care is done.
However, it's a required part of the curriculum for schools to be accredited, and a component of the NCLEX. Until that changes, we'll all have to take at least 8 weeks of maternity nursing.
You'll get through it ... :)
I do agree...even though L & D is where I want to go after graduation...I WOULD have liked spending some time in the ED for clinical. I will actually spend NO time in ED, (Would have if I didn't switch out of ED for L & D for my preceptorship/leadership for my last semester), but I think it would be very interesting...
The thing that I hate about nursing school is the non support of my family. I have a husband and kids and they seem to think I go to school and have fun. I LOVE school, but it isn't like I'm shopping or getting a manicure. I have to come home and take care of everything around here before I can sit down and study. My husband is like, well I work, blah blah, blah. I told him that he leaves his work at work, he doesn't have to carry it around everywhere he goes in a backpack. Can you tell this is a bad night.
The thing that I hate about nursing school is the non support of my family. I have a husband and kids and they seem to think I go to school and have fun. I LOVE school, but it isn't like I'm shopping or getting a manicure. I have to come home and take care of everything around here before I can sit down and study. My husband is like, well I work, blah blah, blah. I told him that he leaves his work at work, he doesn't have to carry it around everywhere he goes in a backpack. Can you tell this is a bad night.
Ahhh...shopping....manicure...I think I'm going to have to do some of that after my next term paper is turned in on Monday...my next milestone. :rotfl:
Wow, I bet you got a whole two gallons with that $5, too! :chuckle
I put $20 of regular in my car last week and it didn't even fill it up all the way.
I sure as heck can't wait to change my sig line in a few months!
Things could be worse...In NZ if you asked for $5.00 gas the attendent would ask you which ear you wanted it dabbed behind...and $20.00 takes me just over a quarter full.. remember when your parents used to say in my day a car would run on the smell of an oily rag...now you wish you could afford to waste any oil onto a rag... .. I sit my finals in November...Good luck to y'all...
Fear not even on the worst of days, there is always an array of gloom.
complain what is there to complain about , we all asked for this in one way or another didnt we! i digress , today could have easily been the longest day ever. i get up at 4 a.m. to catch a bus to school 1 huor and ten minutes away , just a short commute. on top of that it was raining very hard at the stop with out shelter, thne to top it all off lecture from 8a.m. to 12: 30 by an instructure that is truly captivating in her presentation but goes tofast. then teh long ride home, along with home work. honestly what is there to complain about i ask you!!!
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I must say, reading all of these threads makes me extremely grateful for my program, and I don't feel nearly so bad about my complaints. I have good, understanding instructors, decent and hardworking classmates, and clinicals/ school close by. Plus, I get to wear scrubs instead if the dreaded uniforms. Still the universal complaints apply:
1) Dealing with the financial aid office (enough said!)
2) Clinical paperwork, especially when a patient gets discharged
3) RN's who work AT A UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL and yet hate students!
4) STRESS! And instructors saying things "Take time for yourself, get a massage, have a cup of tea, take care of yourself." Sure, it's important, but when exactly am I supposed to do this? And where exactly am I supposed to get money for a massage, etc?