Who has felt nursing school was a horrible experience because of their nursing instructors?
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If you are indeed in nursing school and are having a difficult time due to your nursing instructors, all I can say is that you must have had attention drawn to you. From my experience in nursing school, the ones that had a lot of conflict with the instructors were the ones that always had some opinion where they could not keep it to themselves. \n\nJust go through the motions and tell them what they want to hear. It'll make those years much easier and calmer. Just do your clinicals, study hard, and keep any litigious comments/opinions about healthcare to yourself. Good luck.\n\nRemember, once you're a nurse and are working it is different from nursing school.
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i was having the same problem. i was stock between nursing or psychology. well i have to take a psychology class in order to start me nursing classes ....so i said i will just take that class,see how i like it then make my decision.
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where i went to school, they gave you a guilt trip about it and made you feel really embarassed..depends on the school!
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You might consider talking with her and sharing your concerns. If you aren't satisfied with the way it went, you could ask for some help by getting someone to mediate. \n\nIf all else fails, you might want to take on the approach that its her duty as a teacher to teach and yours as a student to learn. We can't always get along with everyone, even as adults. And sometimes all we can do is try to get through uncomfortable situations that aren't in our control to change.\n\nI do commend you on taking responsibility for your own actions. Kudos for you :)
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I really hate to say this, but people's lives are in nurses' hands.
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yes!  i hate that, if i am paying dr. whatshisname, then that is who i want to have seeing me.  not nurse whoever or the student who haven't quite gotten out of medical school
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I am a nurse.. i would never assist someone to die but i did stop someone's morphine so they could go!! i felt horrible the next day i was working in Labor and Delivery.. it was hard
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my daughters history teacher a few years ago, it was BAD!!!
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LOL...you really brightened my day.  Thank you!\n\nYes, people do make it through nursing school and live to tell the tale!  I can relate to what you are experiencing though.  It is all so overwhelming but it does get better.  The first year is really the worst (for R.N.s).  It gets piled on and I think it is to weed out those that really are not serious about the profession.  Get through the first two semesters and you will see a difference.\n\nWhat really helped me was to read through all my notes every night.  I found that by the time the tests came around, I had read through them so many times that I had memorized all but the last few days worth!  Made studying for tests so much easier as then I could just concentrate on the notes from the days I was weak on. \n\nFeel free to email me anytime you want to vent, talk or just have a shoulder to lean on.  Good luck in your chosen profession!  You can do it!
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I was in a center for 6 months, I had been in a private school and they seemed to think I was depressed.  What they didn't know was that I was a very quiet, reserved and watchful person.  I would have much rather been left alone than forced to socialize with other students.  When I left the "center" I had learned numerous ways to kill/hurt myself, met several kids who ended up committing suicide, and really really hated the private school that landed me there in the first place.  It also took me a very long time to forgive my parents for allowing it to happen at all.  They realized when I was older just how badly they had been manipulated by the system.
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mine sucked too. and i hated her from the day i met her. Judgemental Bit(h.
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I spent my entire last semester of my senior year in the hospital and got exempt from every exam. Since I went to a private school, they just "gave" me my last year based on my GPA. (idiots)\nI broke over half the bones in my body, lost 5 teeth, was blind for 6 months, and had a HUGE piece of toboggan stuck through my leg for at least a week until they could figure out what specialist could get it out.. \nGraduation was just a riot with no friggin teeth. I had so much fun making crass jokes and used ketchup packets to squirt out fake blood, pretending my friends had hit me whenever kids or older people stared at me.\nWait a minute... I still do that..
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I didn't think about it until I had actually experienced first-hand, but the elderly are most certainly mistreated in nursing homes:\n\nIn my freshman year of high school, our English teacher asked us to do a community service project with either the elderly, special needs or other worthy cause. We were to pick a specific location and work for 6 hours. I chose the elderly in a nursing home close to my house.\n\nWhen I went there, the place was very quiet, and not lively at all. It was almost creepy. Then, when we went to help the elderly, the staff asked my friend and I to assist the elderly during their meal by coaxing them to eat, opening things, and sometimes even feed them. However, the more self-sufficient adults were in one area, while the severely handicapped were on the other side of the room. One particular nurse was FORCING and SHOVING food into an elderly lady's mouth. The lady could not get up; she had to be reclined and could barely open her eyes, let alone her mouth. The nurse kept pushing and shoving food into the lady's mouth, and food started to drip down.\n\nAfter I saw this horrible act, I have vowed to never, ever send my parents to a nursing home of any kind. I'll stay home and take care of them myself.
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13 I had just had my appendix removed and was in recovery all alone. When I came to there was a man on top of me doing his business. A nurse came in and shoved him off of me. she took me to the restroom and washed my blood away and told me to pee. I kept telling her it hurt me, she said they didn't operate you down ther it shouldn't hurt and placed me back into the bed and put a kotex on me. I had not even had my first period yet.\nShe later came and removed the kotex and washed me down there. I don't think she was supposed to leave me there alone.\nTRUE STORY
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It does seem to be a form of torture, doesn't it?  I think there's a part of all of us that in some small way wants to connect with our past and our youth, regardless of what it was like for us then.  If it was good (star athelete, class president), it's another moment basking in that spotlight of old.  If the experience was bad, it's always tempting to return to those people who made your life terrible to see if they have fallen from grace as far as you imagined they might. Then of course there's you--how much have you changed, for better or worse, and how you imagine that will affect that same group of people you loved/hated all those years ago.  It's a wonder more people don't end up in therapy before and/or after attending one.  As for me, I've been to just one--and while I had a pretty good time, I really doubt I'll be tortuing myself again.
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my freshman year of highschool i took life connections with mrs niskanen... oh my gosh... i hate her sooo much! lol all of her classes would always play tricks on her and she would make us do the stupidest things and she sends people to the office for things they never did and for stupidest things and the principals would just send us back to class with no punishments.
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Foster care was good and bad for me. I think going from placement to placement, I saw a lot of behaviors and coping skills that others had... and ended up using them myself. I blamed myself for the abuse that had happened to me, and most group homes tend to try certain behavior modification crap that works with some, and destroys others. I dunno how many suicide attempts occured in 2 group homes I lived in... but theres something about a foster parent stadning there yelling at you calling you a slut and to go cut your wrists in the fucking street ( when you're freaking out about being raped) that screws you up... and then to cover their own asses the threaten the other kids who witnessed what they said with like, - 10,000 points. So the kids cover their own asses\n( you live off of point cards in the homes, +10 point for this chore -10 pointg fort that behavior, get under 2000 and you're ground and subjected to horrible chores such as cleaning out the garbage cans outside in 103 degree with with your hands.)\n\nAh gotta love united methodist childrens home in searcy arkansas...\ngood thing was I got away from the abuse, but i ended up seeing more worse things while in care. \n\nIm an adult now, married with a 16 month old and another on the way. \nEVERYDAY, i still live in fear. I constantly cacth myself using that "ill be good, dont punish me" thing with my hubby, thank god hes patient. I cant stand living in one place for longer than 3-6 months, I dont trust easily, I battle an eating disorder and try to do everything taht i can to make sure that my childd doesnt grow up like I did. I'm constantly mourning my child hood and still blame myself for the abuse that happened and the fact that in the end, I am forever the black sheep of my family and my inlaws because of how I was raised, what I went through AND THE FACT THAT I OPENED MY MOUTH ABOUT IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.