Once you get past the first week or so of nursing school, people start to show their true colors. For the first week, all you notice is that you're surrounded by kindred spirits who have jumped through all the same hoops that you've jumped through.
Oh my God, your physiology professor taught you the renal system that way too? Oh my God, you had trouble on that part of the TEAS too? Same!
After your short honeymoon period with your peers, however, you come to realize that contrary to popular belief, your fellow nursing students are human too. And some of your fellow humans, you will be absolutely unable to stand.
Today in my lecture hall course, while we were doing our first set of case studies and reviewing apothecary unit conversions, the two girls behind me were incessantly insulting students who asked questions they considered unnecessary.
Oh my God, that's totally on page eight-hundred-so-and-so, they obviously can't read. And oh my God, that's so obvious! What a stupid question!
My approach to this program is simple - no honest, relevant question can or should be called "stupid". When a real nurse in a real hospital setting isn't sure of something, I honest-to-goodness hope that she doesn't just keep quiet. I hope she asks and asks and asks until her supervisors ears bleed and she is fully aware of what she is doing.
We're in nursing school to best learn how to help people in improving their health situations, and when you have a know-it-all attitude and shame people for having a knowledge deficit when they're in an environment where they're actively trying to learn how to improve, I never want you as my nurse. Ever.
This right here! Ugh, that happened last semester (which was my first), and it was pretty scary. Around exam time, some even took it so far as to giving people the wrong answers for study guides. I thought this semester would be a bit better because we've been moved around a little bit, but the back biting continues.
ReplyDeleteThe best thing to do is to be aware of it and just ask them to stop. Yeah, they might not like you, but if people start standing up fro each other, that kind of thing disappears soooo quickly.