I just don't understand certain people
at 6:15 p.m. on 2004-04-15
Spring break seemed to just dash by me. I blinked and it was time to go right back to the class room. I didn't ease back into the school routine either. More like slammed into it. Yesterday was my last day off till next wednesday. The next six days are crammed with school activities. All of which begin way too early in the morning. I'm not a morning person and probably never will be.
The past week has not been my best either. It started off with going to a clinical that completely flopped. I live on the northern part of town and my clinical on the opposite end. Not exactly the shortest drive in the world. When I arrive I find that there are only two surgeries going on in the OR that are open to paramedics students. The other student and I played rock paper scissors for it. I lost. I still went in to observe but didn't get to actually do a thing. The next sugery wasn't for another five hours so I went back home to grab lunch with my boyfriend and the other student went to go have lunch with his girlfriend. We both planned on meeting back up for the next sugery. When I get back I find out that the next sugery isn't even going to happen because of medical complications and they told me to just come back another day. I was dissapointed but nothing more than that until the other student didn't show back up. He took the only surgery for the day and didn't even get credit for it so he will have to reschedual again just as I do. Usually if this person doesn't show I couldn't care less, but this time he in a way dragged me down with him. All he had to do was show up. He didn't have to do a thing. I just plain felt screwed over. All in all, the only thing I got out of the day was half a tank less gas.
This Tuesday wasn't much better. I had to go to the lab from hell. There are normally four instructors that teach the lab. Not this time. Our main instructor that teaches the lecture wasn't going to be there today. He taught Cardiology for another instructor's class and as payment the other instructor was going to fill in for him in the lab. Of course it was the one teacher that the entire class despises. I get upstairs to find that only half the class has shown up on time. I can't blame them. If there was one day to ditch it would have been that day. The teacher from the black lagoon wasn't there yet, which gave me some relief. Not much, but some. Another teacher called off because he couldn't get out of work, and yet another had to leave for a while as soon as he got there because he had to take a test to take. The last one remaining was as cranky as ever. He was so pissed off that so many students were missing that he was about to nark them out to our program director when everyone else finally showed up. Thank goodness that he didn't make that call. We all would have had to sit through a three hour or so bashing if he had. We broke into groups and were rotating through to the one instructor. The poor guy was so tired and irratable that I thought he was going to snap before he was done with the first group. We were going through a patient senario that wasn't turning out good for anyone, but we were surviving none the less. Then someone suddenly shows up after the lab is already half over. Can you guess who? The she-devil sub that's who. She didn't say sorry or give an excuse. She only said "what are we doing? Go get the equipment ready. You know what you need." and was completely uncaring about the lab. Oh yeah real prepared and real professional. Needless to say all of our imaginary patients died despite the fact that certain actions were taken. Also if you figured out what was wrong the the problem would suddenly change and you were still wrong. I have never found it to be a effective teaching tool to laugh at and humiliate your students. Besides that, if they are doing something wrong it is helpful to let them know what the mistakes are that they are making and show them how to do it right. Rolling your eyes and huffing doesn't work. Maybe it is just me but I can't learn that way. She is so rude, self-absorbed and extremely belittling. I can't believe she is an instructor. She also only knows what she is talking about half of the time. She's been known to open her mouth before thinking and just say something that is way off but then again she is never wrong. Honestly, I would never work with her on a rig for my own sanity and for the saftey of the patient. She scares me sometimes. I have to deal with her again this weekend for our Prehospital Trauma class. The students who will be there for this weekend class have decided to study the entire book before we get there, ask her a bunch of questions because we already know that she is not prepared to teach this class and knows nothing about the material, and plan on watching her fall on her face. Payback is a bitch. I know this is rather mean of us, but don't mistreat people and not expect to get some of it back.
There have been a few more things that just have not been going well but I'm not going to get into those right now.
.:.me.:.
I'm 24 and I oerk for a private ambulance company as an EMT in the city of Vegas
.:.loves.:.
music, storms, reading, paintball, my friends, drawing, concerts, the color purple, and the occasional night out at the club
.:.hates.:.
gossipers, spiders,liars, egomaniacs, and drama
.:.past five.:.
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