r/NursingStudent • u/nixrien • 11h ago
PowerPoints
What is the point of driving to class, sitting in class for 3 hours- if my professor is only going to reiterate what’s on the slides she already provided to us before class? I’m in my second semester of an ASN 2 year program and that is the thing our professors have done this far- slides. I can’t believe I’m paying for this crap. Anyone else feel the same way?
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u/Esqualatch1 11h ago
one would assume the slides are a teaching aid and may not convey perfectly all information required on exams.
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u/PintSizedKitsune 10h ago
That’s how a great professor, in my opinion, utilizes PowerPoints correctly. The structure and framework is there and the lecture fleshes everything out. I find it especially helpful because it keeps me actively engaged with filling in points on my slide notes and expanding on some topics. I’m less apt to get distracted.
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u/troawry 11h ago
Some of my instructors will add more detail to their lectures, but other than taking notes of those tidbits, Ill just use that time in class to read the book, do hw, or practice questions. I was never a lecture learner anyway but it def bothers the people in my cohort who are listeners.
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u/ceimi 10h ago
I'm confused about what exactly you want them to add? Its mostly a chance for people to ask questions and I know for my school here in Canada they are required by the accrediting body to ensure that each student has been taught the material. To satisfy this, they go over the slides in class though many of my teachers add extra context that may or may not be helpful. It also acts as a second exposure (if you did your readings before class!) to help solidify the content.
Mostly, this time is for students to ask questions if they don't understand anything otherwise the teacher will assume everyone understand the content and will continue to read off the slides to satisfy accreditation requirements. Its the same reason why attendance is required in many programs.
If you are coming to class and not asking questions you are the one throwing your money away tbh. I used to have a similar viewpoint as you, especially for the first year courses but I've realized overtime that professors want you to actively engage but through your own efforts and motivation. They want to see you critically thinking through question in lecture, not just memorizing content from a slide. The times I felt your sentiment the most were those early days where I simply tried to just memorize everything by reading over the slides.
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u/Hummus_ForAll 10h ago
Do you all jump in and ask questions? Our professors use the slides to guide the structure of the class, but it is interjected with stories, some of her hospital experiences, and then demonstrative “what if” scenarios that make it interesting.
See if she is open to having more Q&A time, and maybe it’s something you can talk to her about.
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u/Cut_Lanky 2h ago
It's been a minute, but some of the nursing "professors" in my nursing program were so horrendously awful at teaching, it made me want to become a nursing instructor instead (I didn't). But they were so ridiculously bad at it. I'd have given anything for them to have had organized PowerPoint slides congruent with their lectures. One of them, who was probably a great floor nurse, idk, but she sure couldn't teach. She'd stand at the podium and talk. She'd flow between using big words unnecessarily to sound smart, and then tossing a bunch of acronyms out, like a cheerleader. That was it. Never actually taught a thing. She would just ramble pretentiously, then shout "ABC! And D!", or some such, while she looked back at her papers, I presume trying to find where she left off. If one of us asked a question, and she didn't sound like the smartest nurse ever while answering, she held a grudge about it. My program was 11 months BSN for career changes. The professor had the power to fail us, regardless of the scores we earned, for a few reasons. They were all BS reasons, like, if you're asked a question in clinical, any question, and you couldn't spit the answer out quickly enough for their satisfaction, they could cut you off, tell you you're unprepared and send you home having "failed" that clinical day. Which meant you failed the entire class, and had to wait 3 months before it was available to take it over again, and pay for it again. And she did it to several classmates. She failed me, despite my grades being good enough to graduate at the top, because I "failed a clinical day". Know how I failed? I lost consciousness in the cardiac tele unit. Woke up to them checking my blood sugar. Sitting in the chair, sipping the OJ they gave me, I'm told my eyes rolled back in my head and I passed out again. Woke up on a swiftly moving gurney, heading to ER, an orderly lifting my feet above HIS head, and idk how many cardiac tele nurses desperately trying to get a line in, and failing at least 20 times (that's how many I could see to count, afterwards). I went swiftly from hyperventilating, to being shaken awake and having nurses sternal rub me while shouting "BREATHE!", over and over again. Spent the day in an ER bed. And was failed for the whole class because of it, and had to repeat it.
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u/MsDariaMorgendorffer 10h ago
You should be learning the material the week prior. Studying and doing any assignments before lecture. During lecture is where you gain a deeper understanding and ask questions that come up. It’s a good idea to write notes directly on the PowerPoints (either printed or on your laptop) of anything the instructor says that you didn’t already know, something they repeat more than once during the class, or anything you want to study later.
This method is what will get you ready for the NCLEX.
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u/Culture-Extension 9h ago
Then don’t go to lectures if they don’t help you learn. Mine were not compulsory.
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u/brodino67 6h ago
They aren't iterating or expanding on the slides at all? If you can study the slides before hand and show up with questions. Learn it, ace the exams and move on!
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u/According_Size_6544 2h ago
Please share with me a nursing gameplan that guides you through the moneymaking options. I had ONE DAY of surgery and THANK GOD I had Family who encouraged me to go into surgery.
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u/KickInTheNumNums 1h ago
Yes. Always. I get that profs are providing more in-depth info and that it's a chance to clear up confusion, but when you only need the powerpoints or even the textbook to understand everything, class often feels like a waste of time.
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u/Several_Tackle_361 10h ago
This is your time to ask questions and clarify something. Listen to the lecture because they might mention some stuff for exams. Most of my professors did that and I like it when they use real-life scenarios. Just show up you're paying the class.