Abuse at school

[jdoezer]

How do you deal with student abuse from teachers in nursing school? Nurses are terrified to address this topic, some even to the point of absolute denial.

What do you suggest to do?

For the nurses who promote it, how do you justify it? I just want to know the truth is all, and to go from there.

[jdoezer]

I totally agree.

Thanks for the advice Blondie, that does help. Going into nursing is a field where a person has to be pretty tough and willing to do an excellent job.

[Roman1]

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Déjà vue of this thread! Lol

[englishgeek]

You should go into politics. You're AMAZING at using tons of words to say absolutely nothing. Those Senators and Congressmen who think they know how to pull off a good phillibuster or throw some misdirection have nothing on you. And those bunch of degrees will definitely come in handy.

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

Just plain weird. Go with it!

I'm now picturing a scruffy guy in a dirty undershirt, sitting in a dark room surrounded by pizza boxes and beer cans, tapping away at how nursing school done him (her?) wrong.

Good times.

[jdoezer]

Haha, they don't mess with the grades at this nursing program. The way they fail people is clinicals, where they can fail a person on anything. The teachers I had at the school would openly talk about the students that they didn't like, and those students didn't tend to move on. One girl, who had the highest grade for the class, was failed because the call light of a patient slipped onto the floor after she left the room. The teacher even refused to go back to the room and show her it.

The worst, which this never happened to me but it was bad enough watching, was one teacher publicly yelling at students in the busiest section of a rehab facility. It was such a loud, shrill voice too, and she would just berate a student for what seemed like 10-20 seconds. She was temporarily banned for doing this constantly, until there were no more clinical nurses (like if someone called in sick).

[jdoezer]

That same teacher was known for being racist too (her dad and family were very racist). Those students with an accent, if they dared not speak each syllable with the clarity of a native speaker, were just trashed in class. One guy, he had to stand up and read sentences in front of the other students, just to show he could actually speak English! The look on the teacher's face was a mix of cruelty and pleasure in the total domination of the student.

[jdoezer]

So, needless to say, I really can't think of any foreign student off the top of my head that even made it past the second quarter. Discrimination like that totally makes me feel like dying.

[roser13, ASN, RN]

It is kind of like the Sandusky case. Granted it isn't sexual abuse, but no one wanted to accept the truth. He was there for what, 20 years?

OP, are you in any type of counseling? If not, it might be worthwhile to consider it.

[traumaRUs, MSN, APRN]

I think at this point it's pointless to consider further advice.

back to the topic at hand- we wish the OP well and hope they realize that sometimes you will get advice that hopefully puts a new spin on the situation.