After yet another stimulating day as a nursing student I have decided that nursing is not actually a real major. Rather it is meant to ruin the lives of those who are dumb enough to take it on as a career path! Let me elaborate...
My day started at 7:45AM, it left just enough time to get up, dress, brush my teeth, and take the always important morning pee! I started in the computer lab where I was supposed to print my slides for lecture only to find that yet again the printers were both out of toner! I blame the art student printing in front of me who had over 100 slides to print in color for her art history course. So, I headed to class without my materials to sit through yet another stimulating lecture on the critically ill patient. I arrived in class to find not my professor there but instead the dean of the nursing school! The first hour of class was then spent listening to the class complain to the dean about a test that the majority of them had failed. The claim was that it was an "invalid" test! Not only was the dean more then willing to accommodate those that were not satisfied with their grades but she worked it out so the test would be curved in the end!
My question is this: At what point do you own up for not knowing your shit and stop bitching and hoping that someone else will bail you out? At the end of nursing school, nursing students need to take a state licencing exam called the NCLEX, not only does the state not care if you pass or fail, but if you fail they will keep your money and still smile at you as you walk out the door! What kind of favor is the school doing you if they are willing to bend over backwards to make sure you pass the course? In the end you will fail the test that really counts!
On another note...I know the last one was a little bitter with a cynics twist on and I apologize for that. The blog is now 48hrs. young and Laura seems to be the only one that is willing to comment or maybe read for that matter. I promise I am not writing for my health, although it is a bit therapeutic, I would much rather have people comment and suggest topics to be written on. So, pass on the URL and encourage your friends to read, this will be a lot more fun with more readers!
About Me
- ManNurse08
- I am a senior nursing student at an all women's college in North/East Ohio. This blog is really an experiment more than anything!
6 comments:
Hey I read this everyday and I love your work
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for starting this site. As an Ursuline alum, I wish this would have been available when I attended Ursuline. There were so many things that could have, and probably should have been shared about the Ursuline male community. Only recently graduated, so I feel I may still be able to contribute some UC male perspective. I'm looking forward to it.
Aww i feel important my name was mentioned. As an Alum though i do agree that the school is not doing anything by curving the test especially since people are failing thier NCLEX this year. People need to suck it up and study isnt that what college is about?
Laura I believe you forgot what Ursuline is about, if at first you dont get what you want bitch about it until you do. Come on now you know that.
I am glad to see that the ursuline male commandments are still alive in your hearts. However, I feel that they are just guidelines to any newcomers. If they choose not to live by the guidelines, then they will most certainly learn the hard way, as we all have. Only then will they be accepted as rules to the newest ursuline males. If some rules need to be replaced might i suggest that the bench and a cigar are a recommended practice of stress relief. Also, you can try firewater.... once, and combined with guiness it can knock out a bull elephant for the evening. I also look forward to the weekly quotes, especially from you, sir.
I totally feel for you as a fellow nursing student! psych nursing is kicking my ass however i am sucking it up and taking the poor grades, i know that if the rules were bent i would end up like some of the new grads who failed the NCLEX. and as for the art students taking all the toner, i hate that!!!! we need a special nursing printer, so that all of us who print off the early a.m. slides can get them fast and with full ink. This cite is awesome by the way, you guys are a unique family here at UC and the female population needs to appreciate you more!
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