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.
Oh........hearing endless lectures about how vital correct nutrition and exercise is to good health, and how badly stress and lack of sleep affect the immune system........ :rotfl: Yeah, right! I am now CONVINCED I am going to end up being the patient and not the nurse....
I graduate in May 2005. I haven driven 1 1/2 hours to classes between 3 colleges. My clinicals have never been at my home county which was promised when we started. The closest assignment was 30 minutes away farthest 2 hours. Next semester we get to drive to another state for an observation. Earliest I had to get up---oh about 3:30 am. I'd rather die than eat at our overpriced. grease pit of a cafeteria.I do however agree about the temperature of the skills lab as well as the classrooms. I am thankful that I was accepted in this program because I really want to be nurse, but graduation can't come soon enough.
A 5'2" 200lb woman teaching us about nutrition. If that isn't an oxymoron, I don't know what is. You can tell that she just got forced into the class because she doesn't really know anything about the subject... her idea of lecturing is reading directly from the book. We have a whopping 3 tests for the entire class. The first two are each over half of the book... the last test is comprehensive. When we have a test the following week and she promises to put up a study guide at her office, and she doesn't actually post it until Monday at 9 AM when the test is that same day at noon. When the class average for that test is 65% (we need 70% to pass), and she told me that I did extremely well (I got a 76%). Did I mention that she doesn't allow ANY extracredit? Holy moly.... this is going to be a tough one to push through.
We have a BSN and an LPN program at our school. The skills lab schedule is designed around the BSN student, and therefore is open a whole 2 hours for us LPNs because the rest of the time we are in class. OOOH joy!
Oh well, I'm thankful I was accepted and I'm going to do my best to learn as much as possible and make it out into the real world.
The fact that it is 700 pm on a Friday night and I feel guilty for being on the computer insteadof studying. Also I can agree about making it hard on parents. I spend all day my day off doing laundry, cleaning house, grocery shopping and when my 2 year old took her nap I took one too. I am so sleep deprived from staying up until 1100 doing paperwork and then getting up at 400 am. I sometimes wonder if I am doing the right thing, I have to drop Haley off at one grandma before class on Monday and then research my patient Monday night for clinical on Tues and then finish my paperwork for clinical on Tues and then go pick up Haley. Then her other grandma comes and picks her up on Weds before clinical and then I stay at the library as long as I can stand it ( atleast 4 hours on Thursday after class) and then my husband picks her up, I totally feel like I am neglecting my children. My oldest is a 14 year old and she is more interested in her friends right now. Oh well
The fact that it is 700 pm on a Friday night and I feel guilty for being on the computer insteadof studying. Also I can agree about making it hard on parents. I spend all day my day off doing laundry, cleaning house, grocery shopping and when my 2 year old took her nap I took one too. I am so sleep deprived from staying up until 1100 doing paperwork and then getting up at 400 am. I sometimes wonder if I am doing the right thing, I have to drop Haley off at one grandma before class on Monday and then research my patient Monday night for clinical on Tues and then finish my paperwork for clinical on Tues and then go pick up Haley. Then her other grandma comes and picks her up on Weds before clinical and then I stay at the library as long as I can stand it ( atleast 4 hours on Thursday after class) and then my husband picks her up, I totally feel like I am neglecting my children. My oldest is a 14 year old and she is more interested in her friends right now. Oh well
Just be greatful you HAVE family close by to help. A lot of us have to rely on daycare to help. But, I hear ya!! Keep with it...I think it's worth it!!
Specializes in critical care; community health; psych.
Let's not forget those inane wellness classes that are supposed to teach us how to take time for ourselves to achieve "balance". Can't I go home to do that please? Maybe a little sleep instead of just talking about it?
Specializes in critical care; community health; psych.
Let's not forget those inane wellness classes that are supposed to teach us how to take time for ourselves to achieve "balance". Can't I go home to do that please? Maybe a little sleep instead of just talking about it?
I graduate in May 2005. I haven driven 1 1/2 hours to classes between 3 colleges. My clinicals have never been at my home county which was promised when we started. The closest assignment was 30 minutes away farthest 2 hours. Next semester we get to drive to another state for an observation. Earliest I had to get up---oh about 3:30 am. I'd rather die than eat at our overpriced. grease pit of a cafeteria.I do however agree about the temperature of the skills lab as well as the classrooms. I am thankful that I was accepted in this program because I really want to be nurse, but graduation can't come soon enough.
RNNoMore
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Oh........hearing endless lectures about how vital correct nutrition and exercise is to good health, and how badly stress and lack of sleep affect the immune system........
:rotfl: 
Yeah, right! I am now CONVINCED I am going to end up being the patient and not the nurse....