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 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!
Ok...vent over....(I'm still mad about it.)
YES! :angryfire this is going to bug me too! i just started nursing school this week and we got a heath hx form to practice filling out and i was shocked to see how little room they give you and then want you to fill out a 70 yr old paitent with multiple chronic illnesses and meds info in that space. Also i personally hate when people ask the same question over and over again, or questions taht can be asked in a private meeting with the professor. We have a student who takes up at least 20-30 minutes with these questions ( i hate to say "dumb" but hey some of them really are!) and this student also has to have an anecdotal story to go along with whatever the professor is talking about. Interrupts the lecture too! This makes an already long class go longer and makes my blood boil.
Mine has to be with my husband...he tries to be supportive, I think, but everything he does gets thrown in my face after it's done, or he plays music so loud that no one could concentrate in this house, and even though I make him a copy of my schedule EVERY semester, he still asks me every day "When you gonna be home?" Like he can't survive without me.
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The constant interruptions when I try to study at home...always something needs done...dance classes, or Boy Scouts, or meetings...all have to be done by me. If hubby does it, he grumps and carries on like someone shot him and usually takes it out on the kids, so I do it to keep peace....
Yeah ... that's another big problem. Giving you totally conflicting information which even the nursing profession as a whole can't agree on. Three different textbooks will give you three different answers yet ... you're supposed to guess the "right" answer.
Then you go to the hospital and, of course, their guidelines are totally different from the books or what the instructor tells you ...
I've tried to bring this up at student faculty meetings but, they won't let me discuss it.
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.
My biggest pet peeve is all the competition!!! I am our class mentor and I am drowning in complaints about fellow students..95% of which is coming out of pure jealousy but some is true- some fellow students are pretty pompous. It was so bad after we found out our last test results on Monday that I made a meeting to talk to our instructor on Fri...but now I am sick so I had to push that back until next Monday.
My biggest "school" pet peeve is a certain classmate who has been in my group every term so far. She has the biggest freakin' soapbox I've ever seen and she gets up on it every chance she gets. She will interupt the instructor every class with, "I'm sorry, I just have to say this..." and begin her sermon on her cause of the day. She interupts other student's conversations at clinical with her fountain of knowledge. She will stand and stare at me until I make the mistake of looking at her and then she will start yapping away at me. She is driving me crazy!
My biggest "home" pet peeve is my mother-in-law always asking me, "Do you have school today" or "No school today, huh?" or "Early day tomorrow?" or "How long will you be at school today?". Holy crap! My schedule is on the calendar. If you're so concerned with what I'm doing every day, read it!
Specializes in General Surgery & Open Heart Teams; NICU.
I have student who is always trying to brown nose the clinical instructor. Last night we came in and only had 5 patients for 6 of us. The instuctor told us to team up and get any new admissions. The person I paired up with was great.. we worked well toghether and got the first new admission. Another group got the second. But the particular student I am talking about, she and her partner didn't get anyone else. So it was 2 students to 1 patient (3 month female).
She kept walking around the instrudotr most of the night talking about her family and getting personal stuff from the instructor. She didn't do anything!!!
When we all left, we all saw her ride around the parking lot 3 times until the instructor got to her car then parked and went to her to talk again. It wasn't anything bad because they both were smiling and laughing.
You can tell the instructor likes her. If you have a question, she will say go ask so and so (the student).
But actually I have seen her grades and they are nothing to brag about. I do better. Why can't she just be a student?? She doesn't talk to any of the students unless to tell them they are doing something wrong. She also will tell some of us bad news about a student, info she can only get from the instructor, such as someone dropping, a very bad grade, or even when someone is getting ready to get booted out of the program. I don't think she should have access to that info. It's not her business.
Something needs to be said! WOW! Can't you talk to your instructor and say you feel uncomfortable with so-n-so saying student's grades, who's about to get kicked out, etc?
She also will tell some of us bad news about a student, info she can only get from the instructor, such as someone dropping, a very bad grade, or even when someone is getting ready to get booted out of the program. I don't think she should have access to that info. It's not her business.
Test questions that don't test the desired knowledge for nursing skills (you know, the things you NEED to know to become a proficient nurse). We had a question that went something like this...
Which of the following is considered a non-traditional nursing field?
The key word here was non-traditional. All of the answers were off-the-wall (can't think of a better word) areas. Like "office nurse", blah, blah. Well, I got the answer right, only because I had used the resources for the book for practice tests on evolve, and it asked this particular question, but most people were stumped. They could have answered the question if it asked what is "_______" nursing.
What does that have to do with what I NEED to know to give good care? It is truely impossible to memorize every sentence out of every chapter. When I read about this, I skimmed the first line and read about the field and what it was about, not paying attention to the fact that it was one of two "non-traditional" areas of nursing.
I'm not going to post the whole question and answer. There is no way I'm giving up my seat! But that is a BIG pet peeve of mine.
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Something needs to be said! WOW! Can't you talk to your instructor and say you feel uncomfortable with so-n-so saying student's grades, who's about to get kicked out, etc? 
Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN
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Does he know this though?? Have you told him so?