I really don't concern myself with what other people in my class do, and how they do doesn't affect me...but...It seems almost common for people in my class to laugh and joke about how they've forgotten stuff from the past semester, the past test, or even the past week. They use their friends old careplans or copy them from online or from each other. It's almost scary in clinical when they have no idea what they're doing, like giving Digoxin even if a pt has a HR of say 40, or they have no idea what Lasix is(these are 2nd semester students who have already taken Pharm)...the teacher has to basically babysit them. But half of them get teachers that do EVERYTHING for them, and give them a satisfactory on a careplan that makes no sense. True story, one student's patient hurt their knee after playing sports and their primary dx was "ineffective airway clearance r/t chronic pain" 2nd dx was "impaired gas exchange r/t ineffective airway clearance" . The patient was breathing fine...and they got a satisfactory! Their first intervention was to educate the patient on something irrelevant. These are the same students who constantly talk about ,"Oh I'll never clean poop or do ADL's when I graduate". I'm just gonna be a CRNA and make 200k a year. In clincal they make fun of their patients sometimes, or lie on charting. A lot of them admit that they guess on the tests or have the answers from other ppl who already took the class. Some teachers have caught onto this and changed tests, but others are still slipping by with it. What really gets me, some of them get internships because their parents work at the hospital, and I haven't gotten one and I've been trying for a year now. There's the one thing that I don't like about my program, inconsistency. Some clinical instructors really do teach and expose students to things and grade meticulously. Other instructors let them leave early and give passing grades for just being there doing nothing. But I promise I hear this phrase on a daily basis,"You don't need to learn anything at all til you graduate, I just want a C...who cares about an A". Keep in mind, this isn't my whole class...just about 30% of them. 75 out the 130 ppl passed med/surg this semester, but about 20 of those who did pass...laughed and said,"I dunno how I did it! I just guessed!" A majority of them who fail blame it on the teacher...the med/surg teacher we had was REALLY good, but she didn't baby us like they wanted. But Why do some people aim so low and think nursing is a joke? Almost makes me mad when people pass who really just shouldn't..
And I know there are posts silimar to this, and people might think I'm just saying it without reason. But people show each other their grades online..and when they get a 2 out of 10 on a quiz..doesn't make sense to pull an 80 on a test with no studying..then you ask them what was on the test, they have NO clue and laugh. Or they fail each test during the semester and pull an 82 on the final and pass when you can still smell alcohol on them...the program is good, but there are those students who just I dunno.
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent. - Sophia Loren
I think she captured the essence of this argument. Given the proper drive and proper faith in oneself the superior intelligence will always outperform the average intelligence. In every category.
I don't squeek by, but I do find a point where I make the conscious choice to accept my grade rather than work harder. I have a lot going on in my life though and I'm stretched pretty thin, generally. I have a B average, and I am fine with that. I elected not to take my AP final and accept a low B because I was burnt at the end of the semester. I also did not study hardly at all for my Med Surg final, because I knew that I would pass the class with as low as a 40% because my grades were very good.
That said, I don't understand those that don't try and then freak out the week before finals when they realize they are going to fail the class if they don't get an obscenely high test grade (like someone who never scored over an 82 needing a 97 to pass) Our classroom is very tense and everyone is walking on eggshells the last week of each class because of this. It drives me NUTS.
I think its OK not to be perfect (something I never would have said before nursing school). But I also think that we need to strive for competence.
Regarding the nursing teacher comment by Daytonite... thats actually my goal, to be a nursing school instructor. I know its a looong way off, but I think that teachers are so important and that Johnson and Johnson commercial about nursing teachers (was something like - how can 1 nurse in cleveland save a life in Atlanta, respond to a car accident in Dallas and comfort grieving parents in Salt Lake City simultaneously) really tugs at my heart strings.
I had people like that in my class too. I'm sure every class does. I really let it bother me sometimes, but eventually I just had to stop being aggrevated by other people. I can't change someone else's behavior. I just try to do the best I can because that's the way I am, and......that way I can sleep at night!
Atheos
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent. - Sophia Loren
I think she captured the essence of this argument. Given the proper drive and proper faith in oneself the superior intelligence will always outperform the average intelligence. In every category.