Hound dog
Nana's are Beautiful
I'm enjoying school. I'm in my element and I just eat this stuff up. The students in class are an open friendly bunch of people, we're fairly easy going and can laugh at ourselves and find humor in simple things.
We have 3 male students......all over 30. All nice guys who fit in pretty well.
Or so I thought.
There is one, M. Think good ol' southern boy (about 35ish). He can pour on the politeness so thick you can cut it with a knife. And that's ok. He's a student who "quit" a nursing school in ky because he wanted to go to our school due to it's outstandiing reputation. I know this because he's only said it at least 100 times or more since orientation.
He's loud. He has a comment about everything.....and has interrupted the instructor countless times.....and if she wasn't so nice she'd have tromped on him by now.
So yesterday we broke up into groups to practice terminology. No biggie, it's just practice, instructor knows we don't know squat as a whole but figured those who do can help those who are lost. Instructor gives us a huge sheet with tons of terms on it and we were to figure out what they were.
Terminology is something I've always been good at, plus I've had it many times before for different classes. Still, I don't remember everything, and when you don't use something consistantly you forget things.
So I get M in my group, along with a nurses aide, and several others with no background at all. We took turns trying to figure out the terms. If someone couldn't get their term, then someone else would attempt to help them, if not give them the right answer if they knew it.
OMG this guy nit picked every single part of the word of each term. He nearly went ballistic over thrombus (blood clot) then thrombocyte (blood cell) because how could thrombus meen "clot" and "blood" at the same time. Ok I can see where that could confuse someone. (but this guy has already had terminology once and that's not a hard one to remember if you've had either biology or anatomy)
He wound up stomping off to fetch the instructor who told him we were right. sigh
Oh, and all this was done loudy while he kept saying how he didn't know everything but he'd had terminology before and blah blah.......you get the idea.
This continued. He got the word nephroplasty. He got it wrong. No one else knew the answer. So since I did, I told them it was a surgical repair of the kidney. I know this because of having terminology AND because I'd had the darn procedure done!
Next thing I know he's in my face and loudly going "EXCUSE ME, EXCUSE ME, EXCUUUUSE ME?"
Sooooo, being a mother of 2 difficult children, I simply stare at him like he's and idiot until he backs down. While wondering what the heck was his problem since we'd being doing the same all along.....with him piping in his 2 cents every chance he got......along with everyone else.
From then on I just ignored his comments and spoke calmly over him. But it really irked me. Someone that age acting like a child.
So today was clinical and I was really hoping he'd be in the morning group so I wouldn't have to deal with his ever so polite rudeness. But just my luck he's got afternoon clinical. And to top it off no one wanted to work with him or one of the other guys .........so yeah.
Soooooo. difficult child mom experience paid off. I decided I'm more mature and professional than him and I can rise above it. He did much better for the clinical......but then I dunno if it was because the other guy was there or not. (other guy is a cna/emt and now is doing the nursing.)
But having once been a difficult child myself I had more than one internal chuckle over M during clinical. For someone who dropped a program (evidentally fairly far in the way he talks) he sure hasn't a clue as to what he's doing. Nope. Nada. We were practicing moving patients correctly......and yeah, he did it wrong even after being shown the right way several times.
So I've got a feeling M didn't "drop out" of that program, he flunked out....or maybe left before they could kick him out.
It will be interesting to see how long M lasts, if he graduates. Maybe he'll mellow after a bit.......but he's already stressing to the hilt over very minor things. And tomorrow we all face the dreaded Mrs B who has a rep of being the meanest teacher on campus and the strictest. If nothing else.......ought to be interesting to see how she handles his remarks. LOL Ok, so I'm baaaaaaaaaad.
Well. Getting that out felt better. I can complain to you guys and no one's the wiser. lol
We have 3 male students......all over 30. All nice guys who fit in pretty well.
Or so I thought.
There is one, M. Think good ol' southern boy (about 35ish). He can pour on the politeness so thick you can cut it with a knife. And that's ok. He's a student who "quit" a nursing school in ky because he wanted to go to our school due to it's outstandiing reputation. I know this because he's only said it at least 100 times or more since orientation.
He's loud. He has a comment about everything.....and has interrupted the instructor countless times.....and if she wasn't so nice she'd have tromped on him by now.
So yesterday we broke up into groups to practice terminology. No biggie, it's just practice, instructor knows we don't know squat as a whole but figured those who do can help those who are lost. Instructor gives us a huge sheet with tons of terms on it and we were to figure out what they were.
Terminology is something I've always been good at, plus I've had it many times before for different classes. Still, I don't remember everything, and when you don't use something consistantly you forget things.
So I get M in my group, along with a nurses aide, and several others with no background at all. We took turns trying to figure out the terms. If someone couldn't get their term, then someone else would attempt to help them, if not give them the right answer if they knew it.
OMG this guy nit picked every single part of the word of each term. He nearly went ballistic over thrombus (blood clot) then thrombocyte (blood cell) because how could thrombus meen "clot" and "blood" at the same time. Ok I can see where that could confuse someone. (but this guy has already had terminology once and that's not a hard one to remember if you've had either biology or anatomy)
He wound up stomping off to fetch the instructor who told him we were right. sigh
Oh, and all this was done loudy while he kept saying how he didn't know everything but he'd had terminology before and blah blah.......you get the idea.
This continued. He got the word nephroplasty. He got it wrong. No one else knew the answer. So since I did, I told them it was a surgical repair of the kidney. I know this because of having terminology AND because I'd had the darn procedure done!
Next thing I know he's in my face and loudly going "EXCUSE ME, EXCUSE ME, EXCUUUUSE ME?"
Sooooo, being a mother of 2 difficult children, I simply stare at him like he's and idiot until he backs down. While wondering what the heck was his problem since we'd being doing the same all along.....with him piping in his 2 cents every chance he got......along with everyone else.
From then on I just ignored his comments and spoke calmly over him. But it really irked me. Someone that age acting like a child.
So today was clinical and I was really hoping he'd be in the morning group so I wouldn't have to deal with his ever so polite rudeness. But just my luck he's got afternoon clinical. And to top it off no one wanted to work with him or one of the other guys .........so yeah.
Soooooo. difficult child mom experience paid off. I decided I'm more mature and professional than him and I can rise above it. He did much better for the clinical......but then I dunno if it was because the other guy was there or not. (other guy is a cna/emt and now is doing the nursing.)
But having once been a difficult child myself I had more than one internal chuckle over M during clinical. For someone who dropped a program (evidentally fairly far in the way he talks) he sure hasn't a clue as to what he's doing. Nope. Nada. We were practicing moving patients correctly......and yeah, he did it wrong even after being shown the right way several times.
So I've got a feeling M didn't "drop out" of that program, he flunked out....or maybe left before they could kick him out.
It will be interesting to see how long M lasts, if he graduates. Maybe he'll mellow after a bit.......but he's already stressing to the hilt over very minor things. And tomorrow we all face the dreaded Mrs B who has a rep of being the meanest teacher on campus and the strictest. If nothing else.......ought to be interesting to see how she handles his remarks. LOL Ok, so I'm baaaaaaaaaad.
Well. Getting that out felt better. I can complain to you guys and no one's the wiser. lol