hi all i just wanted to ask everyone what there biggest pet peeve is when it comes to your family or friends when discussing difficulties that you are having with school.
when i try to discuss things with my family they just say .... oh suck it up its not that hard :angryfire .... or come on now its just nursing its not that bad..... but my favorite is .... nursing is nursing isn't that why you wanted to go to school to learn so lean. i might add i really really hate this one
now when ever i have a problem non of my family members like to help me through the difficult times i just get these useless lines and its supposed to make everything better. i hate it even more because none of my family has ever gone through university or better yet most haven't even graduated from high school.
My pet peeve may sound weird. but Mine is to come to class prepared everyday. I think it is just expected out of all of us. There are people who never read anything or even skim the book before comming to class even. I also hate it when a teacher waits for people to answer (you know that awkard silence). I usually just answer because I hate that silence or when a teacher begs for an answer. Kinda funny today we had a different discussion lecture teacher and she banned me from answering any quesitons:lol2: . I just hate that silence or teachers begging for answers so badly that I would rather look super smart and look like I have no life.
KENT
I know exactly what you mean. Sometimes I get embarressed, becuase I'm answering questions and talking all the time. But if I don't answer there is often that dead silence. My micro instructor would try to make everyone talk. I think in that class I might have come off as a know-it-all, becuase I was the only one consistently talked. I personally have no problem answering a question even if I'm wrong.
My peeve is the little teeny-tiny boxes or response spaces that are given to you to complete homework, care plans, ect... with.
I about had a breakdown last night as I was trying to cram 1/2 page worth of teeny tiny typeset from a drug book into 1" x 2" blocks with my handwriting....for 10 different drugs.
I was so mad and frustrated. :angryfire
They do it all of the time, makes no sense, I'm sure they don't enjoy trying to read teeny-tiny handwriting, I don't understand why we can't use another piece of paper or why they can't rework the sheets to give us more room!
My pet peeve is how some nursing students think that nursing school is a chance to re-do high school with the hopes of winning a popularity contest this time around. Yeah, they're the same ones that love to gossip and make random rude comments about their classmates.
my family is very supportive, but yet they don't realize how time consuming it is. my family is always asking me to go out , but my usual reply is , I have to study,,
Pet peeve at clinicals: Negative know-it-alls. I'm not talking about the people who really do know it all, just the ones who think they do and don't seem willing to learn anything new and go to lunch and leave behind a pt w/o telling anyone and then I come in there to replace an IV bag b/c the CNA is complaining it's going off and the pt starts having laryngeal stridor! Not a fun experience! And the negativity really kills me. On our last day on a floor, I brought in cards for the instructor and the floor staff for e/o to sign and one of these people actually said - "I don't want to sign b/c I don't feel like I learned anything from the nurses here" another commented that 'nobody cared about my stupid cards'. It wasn't about me and it wasn't about how much they learned (which if they had wanted to learn - there are always opportunities to!) It was about showing a modicum of gratitude to the floor nurses who allowed us to learn on their pt's! Those nurses were ultimately responsible for any care that wasn't done, or any mistakes that might have been made! Grrr....
Pet peeve at school: Other people talking in class, skipping class, etc and then complaining when they don't do well. Also tests that are taught for and written in a way where over half the class fails. It seems to me that siginifies a greater problem withing the program.
Pet peeve w/ home life: The fact that due to circumstances, my sis, bil, and their kids now live w/ me and coping with the noise and related things are stuff I'm supposed to learn how to deal with at the same time I'm starting nursing school! Like the worst possible time for these two events to occur! There's a reason I don't have a family yet - I wanted to get through school first!
Pet peeve in general w/ nursing school: Yes. I'm young. I also look younger. I go to a community college where the average age is varied, and I feel like I get a lot of flack for being young. I know I'm not the youngest in the class - but again, I do look it! It's irrational - but it really annoys me when people call me 'sweetie' or make up nicknames w/ my name. Or assume that since I don't have a family and am still getting a lot of parental support - nursing school is supposed to be so much easier for me. Hah!
My pet peeve is instructors taking test questions from test banks that have nothing to do with the assigned reading or lecture material ...
Just because they're too lazy to write the test questions themselves ...
And then they expect you to know the answers.
:angryfire
Several classes ago we were going over MI's. Included in our assigned reading were two books; Smeltzer (textbook) and Pagana (lab test book). In Smeltzer it says that CK-MB is earliest to rise and is cardiac specific, in Pagana it said that troponin was the most specific (or maybe I got the switched around). In lecture we were told troponin was most specific and CK-MB was earliest to rise. So imagine my frustration when we got this test question:
What cardiac enzyme is the earliest to rise and is the most specific?
CK-MB
Myoglobin
Troponin
LDH
GRRRRRRR. I think it should have asked for one or the other. :angryfire I don't think they meant to confuse us, but it did. I think they write their own tests as opposed to a test bank, but sometimes on some of the questions I'm just like "huh"? They were very cool about letting us get into groups and retake the test and if we got an A on it in a group of five, two points are added to your test grade. That's was cool, but it's not like it happens each time there's a wacky question on the test like that.
The fellow student who sleeps through every lecture- seriously. The instructor even made her move up to the front of the class and she still started dozing!! That peeved me.
Also whenever the instructor talks about a disease, there is always someone who has had it , knows someone who had it, worked with someone who had it, EVERYTHING we discuss!
this must be routine. we have the same types of issues. one of our textbooks will contradict itself within the same section.... one of the biggest things with troponin is that it stays elevated much longer than ck-mb. i know that doesn't answer the question, frankly, i don't remember which one rises first. wish i could retake my last test........neuro....got an 88, worst grade i've had.....
in smeltzer it says that ck-mb is earliest to rise and is cardiac specific, in pagana it said that troponin was the most specific (or maybe i got the switched around). in lecture we were told troponin was most specific and ck-mb was earliest to rise. so imagine my frustration when we got this test question:
what cardiac enzyme is the earliest to rise and is the most specific?
ck-mb
myoglobin
troponin
ldh
grrrrrrr. i think it should have asked for one or the other. :angryfire i don't think they meant to confuse us, but it did. i think they write their own tests as opposed to a test bank, but sometimes on some of the questions i'm just like "huh"?
I think it would be other classmates that routinely come in late to lecture. Drives me nuts. I would also have to agree with teachers (one specific instructor for me) that pulls test questions out of midair. She will say study this this and this for the quiz, and that stuff won't even be on it.
There's one student in my class (assuming she shows up) who just annoys the crap out of me. Because she misses so much, she asks a million questions about the stuff we covered on her "sick" day, interupting the professor in the process, and then she'll go on some tangent about how her week was (always awful, that place would suffer with out her, etc.). She's also the same person who won't refer to the pt. as "the pt. who had a lap chole" heck no she says things like The Appy, The Lap Chole, The Hernia. They're people first.
Not to mention she just reeks of arrogance. And from what i've heard, the floor she works on would fair well without her.
Anyway...I'm not even there yet, but the family issues have already started.
My husbands questions/comments to me: "I don't see why you want to be a nurse anyway." "You're not compassionate enough." (jokingly) "Are you going to be able to handle children going in the hospital and dying?" "How bad do you want to be a nurse?" "If and when our business gets up and running & I have to have help, are you going to want to help or still be a nurse?"
:angryfire :angryfire :angryfire
My response??? I loved being a medical assistant. IF I make it through nursing school, I'll tell you then if I like being a nurse or not. I can't answer that. :uhoh3:
I realize that he's just being concerned, but geeze, it gets old ya know? I mean, he'll take the kids out to eat/movie/shopping, etc when I have to take an exam, or need total concentration. He definitely wants me to do well, but his questions are really annoying.
Several classes ago we were going over MI's. Included in our assigned reading were two books; Smeltzer (textbook) and Pagana (lab test book). In Smeltzer it says that CK-MB is earliest to rise and is cardiac specific, in Pagana it said that troponin was the most specific (or maybe I got the switched around). In lecture we were told troponin was most specific and CK-MB was earliest to rise. So imagine my frustration when we got this test question:
What cardiac enzyme is the earliest to rise and is the most specific?
CK-MB
Myoglobin
Troponin
LDH
GRRRRRRR. I think it should have asked for one or the other. :angryfire I don't think they meant to confuse us, but it did. I think they write their own tests as opposed to a test bank, but sometimes on some of the questions I'm just like "huh"? They were very cool about letting us get into groups and retake the test and if we got an A on it in a group of five, two points are added to your test grade. That's was cool, but it's not like it happens each time there's a wacky question on the test like that.
It wasn't about me and it wasn't about how much they learned (which if they had wanted to learn - there are always opportunities to!) It was about showing a modicum of gratitude to the floor nurses who allowed us to learn on their pt's! Those nurses were ultimately responsible for any care that wasn't done, or any mistakes that might have been made! Grrr.... 
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maliat
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I know exactly what you mean. Sometimes I get embarressed, becuase I'm answering questions and talking all the time. But if I don't answer there is often that dead silence. My micro instructor would try to make everyone talk. I think in that class I might have come off as a know-it-all, becuase I was the only one consistently talked. I personally have no problem answering a question even if I'm wrong.
Malia