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.
Not a student anymore...but the number one thing I hated about nursing school was waking up at 4am to get to my clinicals at the crack of dawn. I am a night owl by nature, and this was absolute TORTURE for me.
Needless to say, when I got my first job after graduation, my boss was THRILLED that I asked to be placed on permanent night shift.
I hear you Gompers! I remember all too well laying in bed at 1 a.m. wide awake thinking "Oh my god, I only have 3 hours to sleep!" before getting up for clinicals. Don't miss nursing school one bit! Best wishes everyone!
At my school and being a guy, we had to wear these all white clinical uniforms that were designed to knock every ounce of man-hood right out of you... the shirt had a tapered waist that then flared out covering your butt.
I looked like a 1950's pharmacist, or some gunther looking dude that worked in a phyc ward of the same era that was wearing a dress.
I wish my clinicals were only 20 minutes away. We have to do health fairs in a rural county 90 miles from my home. It takes me 1 hr and 45 min to get there.
I'm still in the honeymoon phase, but at this point, I can honestly say that there isn't one thing that I hate about nursing school.
It would be nice if campus and my clinical assigment were 5 minutes away instead of 20.
I dislike getting up at 5:00 AM to go to clinical.
The Long Lectures. The expense. The fast paced nature of things that shouldn't be crammed in your mind all at once. (AHEM...Pharmacology). Having to bring our own paper to print out stuff. That I do not understand.
I feel for ya on the paper - our ADN funding has been cut and we have no paper in our computer lab and our skills lab is outdated. Our LPN program has better equipment than we do - different funding than ADN. No offense to any LPN's out there.
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"
I totally agree. We have a paramedic in our class and it's ok to be smart but not cocky too. He's is sooo cocky. When the teacher asks a questions he always has to be the one to answer it. Come on dude..give someone else a chance. I pray to God he's not in my clinical group.
Specializes in critical care; community health; psych.
The half hour lunch we get and the cafeteria is clear on the other side of the campus.
The laboring patients I had the last two clinicals who didn't give me a baby for my shifts!
The feeling of wanting to hide under the table I get when the same students consistently demonstrate that they are dumb as a stump. I want to hide because I just don't want to admit that we managed to be in the same room at the same time studying the same stuff and got there the same way. I'm talking really dumb here.
The paperwork. There's so much freaking paperwork.
Dragging that luggage on wheels around with me all the time. Every day I feel like I'm packing for a camping trip/seminar.
When we are supposed to be having a holiday (i.e. Labor Day), and then a few days beforehand we get short notice that they are adding some sort of mandatory class that day and we have to go in
When I'm going to have to leave for clinicals at 4.30 am and there is NO day care that will accept my child at that time of the morning, let alone having to wrench the poor kid out of bed in the 'middle of the night' Sometimes it really seems as though nursing schools do everything they can to make life as difficult as possible for us parents...Grrrrr.
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I hear you Gompers! I remember all too well laying in bed at 1 a.m. wide awake thinking "Oh my god, I only have 3 hours to sleep!" before getting up for clinicals. Don't miss nursing school one bit! Best wishes everyone!