Ok, so I've got a pretty big issue with a former instructor of my RN program and I'm really wondering if I can get a lawyer over it!!
To start out, my second semester in school, she had a question that I felt was incorrect. I followed protocol to petition the question, a senior instructor even agreed that my evidence proved the question was incorrect. The long and short of it... because of her ego, she ended up YELLING at me in her office and refused to drop the question. I wouldn't let it go, so I brought it to our head of nursing. I never heard anything back, but low and behold... Fall semester of the 2nd year rolls around... and that instructor no longer teaches there. However, she is still "staff" and oversees a few clinical groups. So, she's still affiliated with the college.
Well... now here's the problem. Keep in mind, I never had this woman for my clinical instructor, just for lecture a few times.
Now she is a nurse educator at the hospital I applied to. My friend works on the floor that I applied to, the ACU. I gave the supervisor my resume at an open house and filled out their online application. Everyone had heard back and gotten interviews, but not me... not a word. I talk to my friend, and he told me that he'd talked to his supervisor and she said "Oh, he had a great looking resume, I'm going to get in touch with him."
... well, two weeks later, he asks her if she's called me and she says she's gotten a bad reference on me.
1. I never gave out references
2. EVERYONE who's ever worked with me absolutely LOVES me
3. This former "instructor" is the only person who works at the college AND the hospital
So, I know it was her and so does everyone else. The problem is, how do I prove that she said something. More importantly, how do I make sure I'm not blackballed by this HACK of an instructor ... who *shudder* is now a nurse educator at the facility I want to work in.
What do I do??? ... besides hire someone to kneecap her in the parkinglot, of course.
