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 might not kill for 3 hours extra of sleep on school nights but I would cheerfully maim I am so sleepy. Working nights on three hours sleep sucks. I have never had this weak of an immune system. I have had a chest cold for four weeks and am finally beating it. Now if I can survive flu season. I have slept in front of my clinical sights in my car to get extra sleep and I slept good it was so nice. I hate teachers who do not know their subject and answer any way with poop information. I keep my eyes on the goal and wish everyone good luck.
I might not kill for 3 hours extra of sleep on school nights but I would cheerfully maim I am so sleepy. Working nights on three hours sleep sucks. I have never had this weak of an immune system. I have had a chest cold for four weeks and am finally beating it. Now if I can survive flu season. I have slept in front of my clinical sights in my car to get extra sleep and I slept good it was so nice. I hate teachers who do not know their subject and answer any way with poop information. I keep my eyes on the goal and wish everyone good luck.
Pharmacology!!! with an instructor that can not teach!!! He is very smart but you can not understand a thing he is trying to tell you. He never looks up at the class likes a spot on the floor. There is no interaction with the class just force feeding info. and one minute he will be talking about skeletal muscle relaxants then he says oh I forgot to mention the types of depression are.....????? Oh I could just scream, and you can't take notes cause you are trying to decide does this drug go with this or something 5 chapters back! Whew I feel better, thanks for listening.
Pharmacology!!! with an instructor that can not teach!!! He is very smart but you can not understand a thing he is trying to tell you. He never looks up at the class likes a spot on the floor. There is no interaction with the class just force feeding info. and one minute he will be talking about skeletal muscle relaxants then he says oh I forgot to mention the types of depression are.....????? Oh I could just scream, and you can't take notes cause you are trying to decide does this drug go with this or something 5 chapters back! Whew I feel better, thanks for listening.
1) Process recordings, BY FAR!!!! espically when they are graded.
2) having to pay $100 to make up a clinical day after being told "don't you dare come to clinical with strep"
3) can we keep changing the schedule? thanks a bunch, I love not knowing from one day to the next what the heck is going on.
4) patronizing teachers. especially the phych teachers. They are the absolute best at turning EVERY MISTAKE on their part into your fault.
5) Students that contridict the teacher, not to their faces, but two seats in front of me during lecture when they are "trying to be quiet" and talking under their breath at how "the teacher is an idiot and I saw on page xyz, paragraph 10 sentence 13 that shes wrong. Who hires these people? I could teach this class blindfolded" and she is always wrong.
6) Being decieved and tricked into questioning and requestioning myself a million times during year 1 and now, being shell shocked, year 2 teachers ask us constantly "why are you guys so jumpy and paranoid?"
7) Being told to relax. Classmates clinical teacher lost her paperwork that she needed to have in before taking the final exam, notified her the EVENING before the exam, and made her redo everything, even though she remembers recieving the paperwork, but "lost it". Night before the exam. Relax they say....
8) Students loans. Student loans. Student loans, and the faculty telling us they don't have enough money to make copies of the answer key to our workbooks so we can study. 56 copies. You don't want us to have them, fine, but don't cry poverty when we are paying alot more than the competive schools. ALOT more. They let us make our own copies.
What I love....
1) one day it will have to end.
2) The fact that I never knew I was capable of the things I now take for granted.
1) Process recordings, BY FAR!!!! espically when they are graded.
2) having to pay $100 to make up a clinical day after being told "don't you dare come to clinical with strep"
3) can we keep changing the schedule? thanks a bunch, I love not knowing from one day to the next what the heck is going on.
4) patronizing teachers. especially the phych teachers. They are the absolute best at turning EVERY MISTAKE on their part into your fault.
5) Students that contridict the teacher, not to their faces, but two seats in front of me during lecture when they are "trying to be quiet" and talking under their breath at how "the teacher is an idiot and I saw on page xyz, paragraph 10 sentence 13 that shes wrong. Who hires these people? I could teach this class blindfolded" and she is always wrong.
6) Being decieved and tricked into questioning and requestioning myself a million times during year 1 and now, being shell shocked, year 2 teachers ask us constantly "why are you guys so jumpy and paranoid?"
7) Being told to relax. Classmates clinical teacher lost her paperwork that she needed to have in before taking the final exam, notified her the EVENING before the exam, and made her redo everything, even though she remembers recieving the paperwork, but "lost it". Night before the exam. Relax they say....
8) Students loans. Student loans. Student loans, and the faculty telling us they don't have enough money to make copies of the answer key to our workbooks so we can study. 56 copies. You don't want us to have them, fine, but don't cry poverty when we are paying alot more than the competive schools. ALOT more. They let us make our own copies.
What I love....
1) one day it will have to end.
2) The fact that I never knew I was capable of the things I now take for granted.
1. Introducing multiple new skills to us at once. I don't know about you, but I'd prefer to just learn caths one day and then work on another skill another day.
2. Like someone else said, a single 2 min demo for a 20 step procedure. Um, I think I caught steps 1, 2, 19 and 20. Can we go over the rest again?
3. When the teacher teaches us something differently than the book does, then when it comes time to study for the test, deciding which method to study as the correct one.
4. In skills lab, being taught a skill by the teacher and then working with 3 other teachers in skills lab who all perform the skill differently. Then comes skills check-off, and you might have any one of 4 the teachers. Which teacher wanted me to do it which way???
5. And most importantly, not having much time to spend with my little boy. When I'm finally home, I'm studying. I just want to play with him, laugh with him, watch him play. I'm in nursing school to provide a better life for him, but is this what's best???
1. Introducing multiple new skills to us at once. I don't know about you, but I'd prefer to just learn caths one day and then work on another skill another day.
2. Like someone else said, a single 2 min demo for a 20 step procedure. Um, I think I caught steps 1, 2, 19 and 20. Can we go over the rest again?
3. When the teacher teaches us something differently than the book does, then when it comes time to study for the test, deciding which method to study as the correct one.
4. In skills lab, being taught a skill by the teacher and then working with 3 other teachers in skills lab who all perform the skill differently. Then comes skills check-off, and you might have any one of 4 the teachers. Which teacher wanted me to do it which way???
5. And most importantly, not having much time to spend with my little boy. When I'm finally home, I'm studying. I just want to play with him, laugh with him, watch him play. I'm in nursing school to provide a better life for him, but is this what's best???
laughing weasel
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I might not kill for 3 hours extra of sleep on school nights but I would cheerfully maim I am so sleepy. Working nights on three hours sleep sucks. I have never had this weak of an immune system. I have had a chest cold for four weeks and am finally beating it. Now if I can survive flu season. I have slept in front of my clinical sights in my car to get extra sleep and I slept good it was so nice. I hate teachers who do not know their subject and answer any way with poop information. I keep my eyes on the goal and wish everyone good luck.