One strange characteristic of plastic to the ability to be transparent yet though they look easily breakable, its actually one of the toughest materials in human kind. Looks can be deceiving. I guess how they coined the adjective "plastics" for people.
In the workplace I don't really say that i'm perfect i'm really far off that point.. Nobody is perfect but at least you make an effort to try to be one. The shortest way that I see to be in the "I'm trying to be perfect" level is to be always open to learning, new things or old.
I don't claim to understand how people learn universally but back in my school and in experience the very core of learning takes place via observation, especially in Nursing which at its core is a skills based profession. In my college days I would have never bothered a staff nurse and tell him/her to call me if anything is up with my patient on my clinical time i would be sticking to her like glue and trying to learn as much as i can. i'm very much aware of different kinds of learners but so far in the hospital in currently situated at the nursing students that pass our area gets sloppier and sloppier. So far i have observed the following characteristics all of which fall under the plastics category on my book.
1. the major suck ups; These are the students who try to be as close to the mentor of choice as they can. They get away with good grades without making a great effort, like actually doing the work. These people would try to be invited to all the occasions would bring random gifts would try to impress basically. These MSUs are most usually boys, in a profession dominated by females and working with mothers and babies (super female dominated), these man (good looking most of the time or really charming), do tend to suck up more than the female suckers.
2. the PTB: not pulmonary tuberculosis but the students who pretends to be busy. These people work in front but when the supervising person turns their back around… boom! they drop what they're supposed to be doing and go back to their own business. these people are a little more tolerable that the MSUs, for the simple reason that i find it really unfair that people would get higher grades because they are part of the big suck up leagues. Effort and dedication should be the basis!
3. the oldies: so far i've never been classmates with people who are way way older than me like 2 generations ahead old. So it really was an opening experience that these students would call me a 23 year old staff to teach them..Keeping in mind that these students are in their 40s 50s… so being naive me i thought i'd at least get some respect.. yeah right! these people would to what THEY want to work at.. namely nothing related to the patient they were supposed to be taking care of. The worst part is they tell you "Call me if anything needs to be done for the patient.." Hello?? am i the student here? you're the one that needs to learn something I work with these things everyday, i don't need to tell someone to do that work for me, it would be way faster to do it myself. I don't see washing bottles and pouring beast milk and sticking it in to the baby as work (especially if your baby nipples good and only has to drink 1 ml), doing the clean up would have been nice.. but no you have some other stuff to do.. like spectate and give lecture to your fellow students like you're so better than everyone even the staff.
4. the Lazies: No interest in learning at all. Imagine for 6 hours in the unit what they do is stare in front of the patient. that about sums up the whole work they did. Wow.
Anyway these are just my observations there would be others but so far students (bad ones) can be classified as such. Itdoesn't mean that i haven't met good students i have but the bad always tends to sick out more than the good.
For the record, i did study in the Philippines. I am from the Royal Pontifical University of Santo Tomas, one of the oldest schools in Asia where the National Hero of the Philippines took up medicine. Where during my time they only accept high graduates as students, no shifters or second coursers (you wouldn't be able to study there apparently). In short i studied and graduated in the top nursing school in the Philippines. I passed the philippine board and NCLEX with one take. I don't mean to brag but just so you know. (if ever you read this). I don't really care if your husband is a who in whatever, or if you're friends with my work mother/mentor, a good and honest worker will always be number 1 on my list. And you M. A. former patient of our unit would never be that, you are a pretentious plastic. I don't boast of my achievements i just want you to know learning is not all talk its 99% diligence 1% luck. I feel sorry for you that you would look down on me because i graduated in the Philippines, but hello? You don't need to graduate from a US school to be good, its just a mentality there are just some things that a lot of experiences would make you better than others and nursing is that. Being a good NICU nurse doesn't mean that you should have been a mom first. So hey i might be young, I might be single and childless but i'm already a staff nurse, i got my degree in a topnotch university, and every though i graduated from the Philippines, you're still under me. ^-^
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