What is it about nursing students....

craff1 · Aug 23, 2002

OMG I can totally relate to your original post!!! See my Disaster 1st day post for a good dumb nursing student story!

And I totally agree about the reading to us crap, what a waste, but we can't cut because attendance is REALLY strict for lecture and clinicals, so I'm saving my absences until/if I get sick this winter.

Hang in there, it can't get worse (for me) so it's gotta get better, like Wynonna says, "When you hit rock bottom there's no place to go but straight up, and sideways!!!"

Cheryl R.

RENAISSANCE RN · Aug 23, 2002

MSPurp,

I definately can feel your pain. Hopefully these students will be weeded out.. If not the Preceptors may eat them for dinner.

However it will only get worse. The president just passed a bill to give remedial students all the help they want..

To give someone the benefit of the doubt ( I know I really shouldn't) Maybe they are just nerve wracked and ask more questions than you.. Believe me I am not discounting that someone can be plain stupid!

You never can tell someones true potential!

Take care and try to keep you patience. I think you will make a wonderful nurse!

leslie_23 · Aug 23, 2002

Hi, I'm Leslie.

I am a new nursing student (a 30 year old nursing student!) and my classes begin on August 26th. I have posted here a few times this summer, but mostly I have been lurking and trying to learn from everyone here.

I have laughed so hard at this original post about idiot nursing students! My classes have not even started yet and I have already been exposed to some real dorks. Like some of you, I had to show-up for an orientation. I assumed that this orientation would cover nursing material, but how stupid could I be? This orientation lasted all day long and had nothing to do with nursing! It had to do with school rules and keeping a clean campus! No kidding! And some of my fellow nursing school classmates kept raising their hands and asking questions about the areas in which they would be allowed to smoke or to chew gum!!! ARHGHAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Just HUSH already so we can get through this 50 page booklet and go home!!!

As I am sure that some of you well remember from being new nursing students, we had to come prepared with fingerprint cards, proof of physical and vaccinations, etc. We were told that ALL of this was due last week (on the 14th or 15th I think it was). Wouldn't you know that most of the people sitting around me had some lame excuse as to why their paperwork was not yet complete? We were notified in July about our acceptance (or lack thereof) into nursing school. Why would anyone want to show-up with incomplete paperwork? I won't be getting myself involved in study groups with some of these people.

I have also been surrounded by some of the younger girls that have the giggles most of the time. It is frustrating because I think that if this is how they are presenting themselves in front of their peers, then how would they present themselves in a clinical setting?

I want to do well and for that reason, I want to surround myself with positive people who truly CARE...

I have rambled long enough...I just could not pass-up this post...TOO funny!

Leslie

Vsummer1 · Aug 23, 2002

Originally posted by leslie_23
As I am sure that some of you well remember from being new nursing students, we had to come prepared with fingerprint cards, proof of physical and vaccinations, etc. We were told that ALL of this was due last week (on the 14th or 15th I think it was). Wouldn't you know that most of the people sitting around me had some lame excuse as to why their paperwork was not yet complete? We were notified in July about our acceptance (or lack thereof) into nursing school. Why would anyone want to show-up with incomplete paperwork? I won't be getting myself involved in study groups with some of these people.

I have also been surrounded by some of the younger girls that have the giggles most of the time. Leslie

DITTO MY THOUGHTS! If the acceptance letter said to have your paperwork in by such and such a day, then by golly I had it in THAT day. Another thing it said was you had to have your CPR done by AHA (not Red Cross) and even stated when the classes were. One person asked during orientation about how they could get theirs. The Dean asked the entire class of 59 people who had not gotten theirs, and every single one of us BUT this one person had taken the correct class.

The letter also stated we were to sign up for 3 separate courses, and the Dean actually had the add slips FILLED OUT for about 1/3rd of the class who didn't register correctly. Talk about hand holding! :rolleyes: If you can't even register for the right classes which they specified in your acceptance letter, they go ahead and fill out your add slips?! Mind you the pre-reqs had to be done and a transcript forwarded with your application so I KNOW these are not "new" students.

DON'T THESE PEOPLE READ? :confused:

det01 · Aug 23, 2002

I totally agree. There are people that I have been in class with that I would REFUSE to let be my nurse or a nurse for someone I love, for that matter if I were in a place to hire I would not hire them either. Some of them never did understand why you can't give type A blood Type AB blood and so on. That isn't even the only example I can give you. I know there is a nursing shortage, but graduating incompetent people isn't going to solve it, it is going to create a worse problem thatn before - still not enough nurse and a lot of nurses that maybe should not be nurses.

kelligrl · Aug 23, 2002

I agree it's scary. I'm in my last semester and there is this girl that is constantly making statements about things that are just plain SCARY!! When we were doing GI & GU..."You mean there's two separate tracts? I thought the urine and feces had to mix in order to pass a bowel movement."

WTF??!?! If I had been the instructor I'da thrown her a$$ out on the spot!! How do you NOT know this info?? We were in our 2nd semester of the program!!

And yet she persists... And I believe she will graduate....Because she moves well with the rest of the herd..If she ever comes near anyone I know while they're in the hospital, I will poke her right in the eye...:stone

Vsummer1 · Aug 23, 2002

Originally posted by kelligrl
I agree it's scary. I'm in my last semester and there is this girl that is constantly making statements about things that are just plain SCARY!! When we were doing GI & GU..."You mean there's two separate tracts? I thought the urine and feces had to mix in order to pass a bowel movement."

OMG! Doesn't your school require Anatomy and Physiology as pre-reqs? And if so, how the heck did this brain child pass?!!

kelligrl · Aug 23, 2002

Originally posted by Vsummer1

OMG! Doesn't your school require Anatomy and Physiology as pre-reqs? And if so, how the heck did this brain child pass?!!

YES!! EXACTLY my point!! It's freakin' scary. She can kiss some mean a$$ though..... :rolleyes:

RNIAM, BSN, RN · Aug 23, 2002

Vsummer1

Can you please explain why red cross CPR was not acceptable? That is the CPR I took for my class along with serveral other people who are going to the same school as I am. I am just curious as to their reasoning?

Vsummer1 · Aug 23, 2002

Originally posted by rhona1
Vsummer1
Can you please explain why red cross CPR was not acceptable? That is the CPR I took for my class along with serveral other people who are going to the same school as I am. I am just curious as to their reasoning?

I don't make the rules; I just follow them! They stated that Red Cross would NOT be accepted. I had previously (3 years ago) done the Red Cross for Healthcare workers and it only taught the basics plus peds, and was about 4 hours. The American Heart Association's program was 9 hours and went into other emergencies as well as use of bags, a defib (forget that darn machines name -- but we actually trained on the thing). It was called Basic Life Support and not CPR. So unless Red Cross has upped the standards in the past few years maybe that is why? Or it could be that one of the facilities that we will be working in requires it so the program just makes sure we go by the hospital's guidelines.

Just curious, did your Red Cross go into other than CPR?

nrselisa · Aug 23, 2002

My school also requires that we take the AHA BLS for health care providers course. It's the only one they will accept. Not sure why :)

Lisa

RNIAM, BSN, RN · Aug 23, 2002

Vsummer1

Our was called CPR for the Professional Rescuer. It cover CPR 1 and 2 rescuer(adult,child and infant). It covered choking unconscious and consious(adult, child and infant) It covered the use of AED's. It also taught basic assessement on scene. It taught our legal rights and responsibilities. It was an 8 hour class. At the end of the class we took and had to pass a forty question test, with a score of 80% as a pass. Does this help? I understand that most schools will accept any type of CPR course as long as it cover the basics. I am glad mine included the use of AED's but too be honest anybody could use one. Just plug it attach the pads and wait for instructions from the machine.