45 years ago my peds instructor told me "I hope you never have kids, because you have no maternal instinct". That hurt my feelings. But I eventually had 4 kids and was a great mom (IMO).
Specializes in MCH,NICU,NNsy,Educ,Village Nursing.
My first day of clinical on an extremely difficult VA floor my patient told me he would not have me give him a bath, that he did NOT want a bath. So, I didn't give him a bath. About 30 minutes before end of the day my instructor asked how his bath went that morning and I told her what he said. She said something along the line of: "He may not think he needs or wants one, but, he does. Come with me and I will help you." I will never forget how she turned a very embarrassing and humiliating experience for me into a positive by her kindness. She helped me gather bath items, explained to the patient that he would feel so much better after a bath, and proceeded to bathe him on one side while I bathed the other, then helped turn him to get his back. He was happy when we finished, she remained kind through the rest of the semester, and never held my "oops" against me. I learned more than bathing a patient skills that day, and I hope I've carried them into my own practice and to "my" students when I taught.
I am in Nursing school now and my instructor for med surg told me every time she saw me that I was going to fail her course. EVERY TIME!!!!
I am a LPN in a RN school and I tested out of the 1st semester. The first day I met her she looked at me and said "Yes so I heard you tested out of our first semester. Do not think of bringing that LPN Mentality in here, it wont work!"
I was struggling in her class while working full time and going to school at night. Unfortunately, She was my advisor as well, so I had to see her to review my exams. I cried after every meeting with her.
I contemplated dropping out of the course as she had advised me to do after I failed her first exam.
Thank God for my family and friends who encouraged me.
Glad to say that she was wrong and I passed her course last month.
She makes me want to pursue becoming a Nursing Instructor when I graduate so I can be the exact opposite type of teacher.
@ bsyrn,ASN: I don't know why some of these "professionals" "get off" on being sadists but yours is a fairly common socially inept comment I have heard down through the years and tantamount to when in the clinical setting a patient asks you if they're going to die and you say with total detached insouciance, "well, really, that's what's going around, isn't it?---buckup!!!"
My boyfriend and I went to nursing school together and once during our ICU rotation he was assigned a intubated female 20-something pt (along with the primary nurse) and the charge nurse came up to our clinical instructor and demand his assignment be changed because it was "inappropriate" that he care for her. I'd like to say things have changed, but some people still have their bias.
Yes, you meet all kinds of unpleasant people in nursing and the same personality types over the years oddly enough keep on being spawned. It's like one step forward, two steps back. Not much changes. But as we know this problem is not exclusive to nursing. I can remember years ago commiserating with a wonderful surgical resident who told me that she was constantly bullied by "the boys." At this point I really don't care what the reason is, all I know is that it's hateful and needs to stop.
I am in Nursing school now and my instructor for med surg told me every time she saw me that I was going to fail her course. EVERY TIME!!!!
I am a LPN in a RN school and I tested out of the 1st semester. The first day I met her she looked at me and said "Yes so I heard you tested out of our first semester. Do not think of bringing that LPN Mentality in here, it wont work!"
I was struggling in her class while working full time and going to school at night. Unfortunately, She was my advisor as well, so I had to see her to review my exams. I cried after every meeting with her.
I contemplated dropping out of the course as she had advised me to do after I failed her first exam.
Thank God for my family and friends who encouraged me.
Glad to say that she was wrong and I passed her course last month.
She makes me want to pursue becoming a Nursing Instructor when I graduate so I can be the exact opposite type of teacher.
What.the.he.....
That ain't cool. Ain't cool at all.
I'm truly glad you passed that course -- good for you!
I had a witchy med-surg instructor who was always dogging me. One day she told me I should look for something, other than nursing, to do with my life. (That hurts when you are pursuing your life long dream and doing the best you can do.)
I showed her...passed my Boards and was 7th highest of ANYONE, ever, who had taken the test, in the state!!
I showed her...passed my Boards and was 7th highest of ANYONE, ever, who had taken the test, in the state!!
Totally off topic beckysue920, but.... how do you find out how well you did on boards. We were told if you pass then that's that. If you fail you get a breakdown of each category and if you were at, above or below passing standard.... But as far as percentages correct, or hardness of the questions, rankings...Just curious, it'd be fun (or terrifying) to see my score.
Look around (first week of class) by the end of this term, less than 1/2 of you will be here. I do not want my hand held, and I do not want to have things sugar coated. I am not a moron. I KNOW this is tough. How about saying it may seem overwhelming, but all of you are bright or you wouldn't have been accepted. Just stick with it, give it your all and TOGETHER we will make it! In other words ENCOURAGE, do not discourage. That attitude right out of the gate, is one of the things that breeds a dog-eat-dog attitude among students.
Specializes in Early Intervention, Nsg. Education.
Totally off topic beckysue920, but.... how do you find out how well you did on boards. We were told if you pass then that's that. If you fail you get a breakdown of each category and if you were at, above or below passing standard.... But as far as percentages correct, or hardness of the questions, rankings...Just curious, it'd be fun (or terrifying) to see my score.
Actual scores were given "back in the day." My Mom and I sat for RN boards 10 years apart. We both took the 2 day written test. She received a latter with her score in 1982, and I received a simple "candidate passed" letter in 1992.
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45 years ago my peds instructor told me "I hope you never have kids, because you have no maternal instinct". That hurt my feelings. But I eventually had 4 kids and was a great mom (IMO).