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I don't know if anyone else has an issue with immature nursing students, but here goes nothin.'
I don't know it it's a New Jersey thing, but the nursing program I attend attracts on the most whiny, immature, rude and disrespectful individuals known to mankind! It's a competitive program to get into (yeah, what program isn't), and I often wonder who some of these bimbos slept with to get into the program (you know, the lights are on but no one is home look they all have). These girls walk into class in PAJAMAS, slippers, thongs hanging out of their butts, red-eyed from drinking...or they look like some streetwalker with their micro leather skirts and stilettos and makeup that needs a spatula to be applied......They all text in class and carry on conversations about who they had sex with the night before......
To the other spectrum....the super anal retentive nursing student with his/her reams of notes, color coded notes, and study guides en masse that always ask "Will this be on the test.....?" or kvetch about how stressful their day was in clinical because the sun entering their patient's room bothered their eyes. Oh please. Pull the stick out of your butt and come back down to reality. Yes, you're an over-achiever, single mom/dad that works 2 jobs blah blah blah. We get it. Don't keep reminding us. Stop checking your Blackberry every 5 minutes to see if Consuela the nanny picked up your kids from their Montessori school and dropped them off at their Mensa meeting. Seems like these types of students all have the same story to tell: "Well, I was accepted into medical school but chose nursing so I can better serve mankind." No, truth is, you probably dropped out of/got denied admission to medical school and here you are in nursing school like the rest of us. Enjoy the ride. And please, try to be at least a little more creative with your lies.
Sorry if this post is rambling, but I had to get this off of my chest. I have to live with these people for the next year and I think I'm about to lose my mind with all the drama, lunacy, and complaining. Anyone, please add your 2 cents.
Just focus completely on yourself and your career aspirations. Basically, those kind of people exist everywhere, in all types of schools and workplaces. You will always wonder how the heck he or she got where they are in light of their obvious major flaws. Let the scumy people be scummy and the over-achievers be the over-achievers. You just be you. Hang in there!
LOLOLOL. well I can picture myself years ago sitting in lecture halls with your post.
This is my take...
Nursing school generally attracts mainly women and so you'll get alot of that type in class w/you. Women are talkers, they can be competitive, they can be nasty, annoying, boo-hooing complainers, overly dramatic about the events of the previous nights LOL. ....It's not really going to end with nursing school either. It can be in the workplace too. Cliquey women, ones who appear to be immature and nonprofessional and appear to be just plain idiots and then the overachievers who are running around crazy and complaining. I like to find a floor with a few men on it, they make some great coworkers, lighten the mood and are fantastic nurses. They don't get involved in too much of the women drama so that's nice. Do yourself a favor and find someplace like to work! You'll be happier.
In the end though, alot of the people you rant about really do come to be very good nurses. I have seen it myself and am really impressed with people who at first gave me just the very wrong impression. I've precepted a number of nurses and mentored a number of students in my days of working on the floors and am really proud of alot of them. You will all be humbled once you start working on your own and maturity will come with time.
Hang in there, nursing school can be tough, its demanding of your time and everyone has a story and I know..its annoying to hear about it all the time though. Hope you feel better after that rant.
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