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.
1. teachers that purposely try and give you trick questions on the exams...and admit after the test that they didn't make them very clear.
2. learning a new skill in a lab and then not having any time to practice it becuase they are already teaching three new skills.
3. not having any time to relax.
4. being constantly worried about what grade i got on the test or not being able to sleep because i am to busy wondering if i studied everything i needed to.
5. irritated with teachers that say if you only know 85% of the material on the test then you won't do good as a nurse.
6. charting, not really charting just getting it back with 800 red marks all over it and most of them are teaching you shorthand.
7.having each instructor tell you that its "not easy" learning to count bowel sounds and that it takes years of experience to get it down yet on your lab skills physical assessment lab you are to have counted within 2 of the instructor or you have to do that part over?:angryfire
things that i am glad for?
1. i wont be sitting at a desk for another year as a legal assistan, i will be doing something that i love.
2. this message board. THANK GOD there are other people out there that don't get straight A's in their med/surg class and are frusterated with the way questions are asked.
3. that i only have a year left.
okay enough for now i am sure i will have more later. thanks guys this is a GREAT thread!!!!:)
1. This one teacher who calls me 'Hey you' instead of looking at my name tag.
2. Said teacher also says 'yarning' instead of 'yawning'...distracting! LOL
3. Having a 3-hour lecture about traction...teacher says 'now I'm putting 10 questions about traction on the test so study it!'...I study it...test day...NO traction questions!
4. Husband has to work 2 jobs...one as active duty military and one as waiter, so I can go to school.
5. Everything that needs to be done in my house has to wait until Friday to be done.
6. Every other person's comments on this thread! LOL
7. The thought of working in a pediatrics clinical makes me literally quake with fear...I do NOT wanna work with kids!! no way, no how!! Why can't I skip that and do an extra psych rotation????
What I love about nursing school:
1. I've made a lot of new friends
2. I'm actually gonna get paid to do something I love to do
1. Spending a fortune on "required" books only to have them sit and collect dust on your bookshelf unused, with the bookstore unwilling to buy them back.
2. Having a teacher who says things like "true" instead of "through," "orthopnea" instead of "orthopenia," who deliberately tries to trick us on exams with questions that were never meant to be covered in the required readings and who won't give back grades for months because she "doesn't work on weekends."
3. Having a lab that's so cold we take the blankets off the hospital beds and wrap ourselves up in them.
4. Working so hard to get consistent participation in SNA only to have people laugh and say they're "too busy" to come to meetings, but could we please sign the form saying that they did community service so they can still reap the benefits?
5. Getting up at 4am to get on a jam-packed expressway to drive an hour away for clinicals.
6. Having post-conferance take, like, 2 hours longer EVERY WEEK than it's supposed to.
7. The extraordinary amount of time it takes to study for an exam to barely pass it.
8. Health Promotion (see teacher explained in #2)
9. How when the students write a letter to the dean regarding a particular teacher (see #2), she just laughs, throws the letter down and says: "What; do they think she's gonna get fired! Hahahaha!" because they're good friends outside of school.
10. Feeling like an idiot at clinicals who can't do anything.
11. Competition between friends for the best grades. Despite the fact that we like to think that it's not there, it is and it's rampant.
12. Slow computer connections in the nursing lab....AAGGHH!!!
13. Books that weigh 800 lbs.....each.
14. The fact that I now spend an unbelievable amount of money on Dunkin Donuts iced mocha lattes because they seem to be they only thing keeping me awake during the day.
11. Competition between friends for the best grades. Despite the fact that we like to think that it's not there, it is and it's rampant.
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I definitely agree. I have a "friend" who likes to ask me what grade I got. Even if my grade is passing, still I don't feel like telling her. If I had a failing grade, the same thing. But, when some of my classmates ask me, I don't really care. I'm not the type of person who likes to ask people what grade they have. It doesn't occur to me. Everybody is working hard so there is no need to compete. My "friend" and I are two different people. She is the talkative one and I am the opposite. She has everything: money, a relationship, able to study abroad (she is from Thailand). But, it doesn't mean she is better than me. Lately, our relationship has been filled with tension. I used to be roommates with her and it was the worst decision I ever made in college. She would have all of her friends come over to the room while I was studying and it caused me to get a "D" in my Physiology course. Because of that, I wasn't able to progress into nursing school. Right now, I would've been in the second semester of the BSN program. I am in the first semester now.
I apologize for the ending to be off-topic but I needed to vent.
Cliques. Backstabbers. Grade competition. The expense of buying lunch because you are too disgusted by the community microwave to bring something from home. People making fun of others because they are not grasping concepts quickly or they are not doing their skills properly the first time. Also know-it-all students who are already paramedics or surg techs-you know the ones: they always have the answer, or must contribute all their knowledge to every lecture in between distracting their neighbor. AND dingy instructors that read from the book word for word exactly what we were assigned the night before- and calls THAT the lecture. I think that sums it up.
Spending an evening developing a nice little care plan to help my assigned nursing home resident with a "disturbed sleep pattern", only to not be able to wake him up the next morning to implement any of it! Even better was being told (at the end of the clinical day) by the charge nurse, "Oh, yeah, I forgot to tell you that we gave him a Vicodin this morning..." Explained a lot!
Cliques. AND dingy instructors that read from the book word for word exactly what we were assigned the night before- and calls THAT the lecture. I think that sums it up.
Been there!! Why, oh why, do I have to attend lecture if all you're going to do is read to me out of the book??? :angryfire True, it does make it easier on my hand because I am just highlighting and not having to try to remember EVERY word you say and take notes, but I can read TO MYSELF at home!!!
When clinical orientation is scheduled from 0730 - 1430 (necessary seven hours) and the instructors try to cram sooooooooo much info in that there is no way to absorb it all.
We were told we would see a one-hour movie later in the day. The movie wasn't started until 2:10. No way to finish if I was to get kids off the school bus and picked up from safety patrol by 3:10 like usual. If I had known they would be late, I would have made childcare arrangements. Instead I got to tick off my new instructor by asking to leave "early", even though I had been there the requisite seven hours.
Sorry for the rant. I wish I could say this made me feel better, but I still feel so stressed about the entire day. Ugh!!! May 6, 2005 can't come soon enough!!!
Specializes in ICU / Med-Surg / Education / Management.
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.
As a clinical instructor I had the ex-tech who THINKS they know everything!
Specializes in ICU / Med-Surg / Education / Management.
Thank you - I enjoyed reading your list, but not for the humor of it, because it is a reality check for me. As an instructor we sometimes forget what it is like to be a nurisng student. I'll try not to do some of the things that are on your list. Maybe this should be manditory reading for all Profs
nurseem
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things i hate about nursing school-
1. teachers that purposely try and give you trick questions on the exams...and admit after the test that they didn't make them very clear.
2. learning a new skill in a lab and then not having any time to practice it becuase they are already teaching three new skills.
3. not having any time to relax.
4. being constantly worried about what grade i got on the test or not being able to sleep because i am to busy wondering if i studied everything i needed to.
5. irritated with teachers that say if you only know 85% of the material on the test then you won't do good as a nurse.
6. charting, not really charting just getting it back with 800 red marks all over it and most of them are teaching you shorthand.
7.having each instructor tell you that its "not easy" learning to count bowel sounds and that it takes years of experience to get it down yet on your lab skills physical assessment lab you are to have counted within 2 of the instructor or you have to do that part over?:angryfire
things that i am glad for?
1. i wont be sitting at a desk for another year as a legal assistan, i will be doing something that i love.
2. this message board. THANK GOD there are other people out there that don't get straight A's in their med/surg class and are frusterated with the way questions are asked.
3. that i only have a year left.
okay enough for now i am sure i will have more later. thanks guys this is a GREAT thread!!!!:)