Role play

[Mrs Reject]

Got into uni this morning (late as I had to tinker with bike on roadside) to be told that we were going to spend the morning doing "communication" role play and learn how to deal with patients emotional problems.
I immediately communicated that I'm not doing this f***ing puerile exercise and went into the ladies to sob for a bit and rend my garments.
Does anyone else have a pathological murderous loathing of role play as much as I do?
I have learnt from long experience of nursing that if you start getting embroiled in people's personal, social and emotional problems you get burnt out and they suck you dry leaving you exhausted. It's ok to sympathise and help out within reason but there has to be some sort of professional shell or you lose your marbles.
I wish all the touchy feely business could stop and we could get on with some proper science - bloody Nora!!!!!

[Bosun]

i hate role play as well, doubly so when a video is involved.. somehow i always get volunteered to the front, or maybe i dont jump back fast enough..

maybe we should role play psycho axemen..


out of interestas we know you are learning to be a chiropodist who played the feet in this role play?

[dracken1]

in todays soceity of political correctness we are encouraged to be more understanding of other people, encouraged usually that is by people who have even less understanding of the real world than the average person on the street.
childless people or people whose kids were left with a nanny telling us not to smack children,
50k a year suits who say that you can live on unemployment benefits.
many of my residents read books so know exactly how to act and what to say to the benefit office to get every payment there is.
i here the same stories over and over again, sometimes with a slight twist but mainly the same pack of crap. the difficult part is knowing when they are genuine. so you ask certain questions and you can usually find the genuine people.
role play i believe is useless. unless you have lived that life you will never fully understand it.
try explaining bike life to a non biker. not the getting wet and avoiding diesel part, but the state of mind side.
ask your teacher to role play a biker, if he is'nt already one.

[Rogue Monkey]

Hmmmm! I think role play can be a usful tool in education, but it can be over used and needs to be pertanent to the subject matter. As a psychiatric nurse our job entails eliciting the most personal details of peoples life expierience and exhibiting a measure of empathy towards those that we care for, and in that respect you can most certainly get "burnt out" in very short order. Working in modern acute psychiatry is one of the most demanding of jobs in nursing and requires a certain amount of tight rope walking! On one side you need to distance your own personal likes, beliefs and attitudes and remain "proffesional" whilst on the other side you have to get intimatly involved in the world of the patient! Its not easy! Whilst always maintaining a proffessional distance you have to get close to the patient to have insight into their problems. Speaking for myself, and as I write this, being in "work" on the tail end of a night shift, I can say that, without doubt, I am thouroughly sick of the job! Under paid! over worked, Job satisfaction? not likely! The best you can hope for in this job is to get through a shift without being phisically assaulted! I dont know what my point is now as Im watching the clock tick away for the next set of mugs to take over so I can go home! :(

[Friar Tuck]

Mmm! Role Play?

I know, Mrs.R you can wear your Nursey uniform, then I can tell you where it hurts then you can.......

ahem! I'll get me coat shall I?

[Mrs Reject]

out of interestas we know you are learning to be a chiropodist who played the feet in this role play?

Podiatrist thank you very much :D I didn't play the feet, I played dead :) and we had to do role play with video camera last year, I had advance warning and was at the dentist that day!!!

[bill?]

I went on the ILS course last year, it wasn't exactly role play but we had these 'scenario's' to do. totally unreal! I mean when am I going to be stood at a bus stop? and when I'm riding my bike I'm to busy watching for things on the road I haven't got the time to be watching for people falling over on the pavement.

[Doro]

not so much role play but bloody useless time wasting training exercises done by some ponce from a management consultancy organisation who get you to sit and play with lego just so you can learn how a production line works, we work in an office ffs and since we were all over busy trying to meet deadlines it was the last thing we needed, and it must have cost loads and the company is supposed to be saving money and I'd done it before at my last job (which was a bit more pertinent because it was a factory) and it's so obvious that the guy says the same set phrases to everyone he sees just for motivation, things like


oh that's the fastest anyone ever did that excersie


FFS drives me mad....I really wanted to walk out and rend my clothes too and I nearly did, I fumed through the session then ranted at my boss about the waste of time and money then he said oh you'll see the usefulness of it next week cos we're making some changes......4 months later and no one has mentioned it again


I absolutely hate being unable to control my day more than ANYTHING

ok so I'm a control freak, I don't care, it makes me happy


*wanders off grumbling to self*

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