So it Begins
The school year is back in swing! I went ahead and attended the LAP seminar thing on Monday and then we had class on Tuesday and Wednesday. We pretty much jumped right in with a review of IV theory and management of possible fuck-ups. Then, with no segue whatsoever, we leapt headfirst into Maternity care. It was rather surreal.
We met today for our clinical orientation and ended up spending way, way too much time on communication skills as our instructor and a co-student were butting heads in a perfect example of some people "just not freakin' gettin' it." When the student mentioned her background in hard science and engineering the instructor laughingly suggested she might be a... J? Some kind of preference/personality test thing. Anyway, she meant that the student must be analytical and detail oriented (not a bad thing in nursing). Anyway, the student didn't appreciate being pigeonholed and took it waaaaaay personally. Said student also displayed disdain for the communication model theories the instructor had been talking about. I got the feeling she doesn't believe in them. The instructor? Spent several years in her earlier life as a communication specialist and consultant for major corps. Hoo boy. It was interesting and uncomfortable all at the same time.
A single conversation does not a belief change, however. I'm sure the student still thinks those test things are full of shit and I'm sure the instructor is still feeling that tight fist in the gut that comes from someone scoffing at your hard-earned knowledge and specialty.
*shrug* I don't buy totally into those test things either, but I do find them interesting and occasionally revealing. I do know that sometimes it's worth it just to keep my damn mouth shut in the interest of forging ahead with an agenda instead of dragging everyone else down into my attempts to make clinical even freakin' longer.
I'm in a group with the two most question-askin' folks I've ever experienced. I don't begrudge someone the chance to get a question answered on our shared time. At least, I don't begrudge them the first three times in a single lecture. After that all bets are off because it then becomes ridiculous and combative and just plain silly. Maybe they'll settle down after the nerves wear off. I know mine are frazzled and we start with our patients in the morning.
We met today for our clinical orientation and ended up spending way, way too much time on communication skills as our instructor and a co-student were butting heads in a perfect example of some people "just not freakin' gettin' it." When the student mentioned her background in hard science and engineering the instructor laughingly suggested she might be a... J? Some kind of preference/personality test thing. Anyway, she meant that the student must be analytical and detail oriented (not a bad thing in nursing). Anyway, the student didn't appreciate being pigeonholed and took it waaaaaay personally. Said student also displayed disdain for the communication model theories the instructor had been talking about. I got the feeling she doesn't believe in them. The instructor? Spent several years in her earlier life as a communication specialist and consultant for major corps. Hoo boy. It was interesting and uncomfortable all at the same time.
A single conversation does not a belief change, however. I'm sure the student still thinks those test things are full of shit and I'm sure the instructor is still feeling that tight fist in the gut that comes from someone scoffing at your hard-earned knowledge and specialty.
*shrug* I don't buy totally into those test things either, but I do find them interesting and occasionally revealing. I do know that sometimes it's worth it just to keep my damn mouth shut in the interest of forging ahead with an agenda instead of dragging everyone else down into my attempts to make clinical even freakin' longer.
I'm in a group with the two most question-askin' folks I've ever experienced. I don't begrudge someone the chance to get a question answered on our shared time. At least, I don't begrudge them the first three times in a single lecture. After that all bets are off because it then becomes ridiculous and combative and just plain silly. Maybe they'll settle down after the nerves wear off. I know mine are frazzled and we start with our patients in the morning.
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