Anyone dissatisfied with their nursing school? (long post)

allthingsbright · Mar 1, 2006

What kind of school are you in? I love my CC-wierd but true. They work us hard but we learn so much. So far it has been pretty organized. Sorry youre having a rough time. GL!

alsolwish · Mar 1, 2006

What area of the country are you in? maybe there is an alternative option???

gdelrosa · Mar 1, 2006

I moved to MI to go to this AO BSN. I would have gone to a community college if I didn't have to wait 4 to 5 years.

I have teachers that refuse to answer questions. I don't know if it's because they don't know the answer or if they're mean. The school is requiring half of us to commute a huge distance while the other half gets to go to local hospitals. And we don't get to rotate!

I am in the first class of the AO program and I can forgive some instances of disorganization but when the teachers start treating their students like children, that's when I draw the line.

I'm 6 months into the program. The first week, I knew something was wrong when they had to give us the syllabus 3 times in one of the classes. I'm just hoping to survive and get out.

I'm glad that other people like their program but it discourages me because I could have had a better experience:(

donna64 · Mar 1, 2006

Man..this could have been written by me also...the school I just left was exactly like this...we had two instructors for each class and then a different instructor for clinicals, and none of them taught the same. It was so confusing..they all wanted something different on their paper work and their parts of the test were so different it was confusing. I found a CC in another city and they let me challenge the classes I had already taken and start where I left off. This is great they all follow the same rules and are there to help and encourage us. It is so much better. Nursing school is hectic and stressful enough without being run through the mill by disorganization and everyone on differect pages..Good luck to you and keep in mind the brass ring comes at the end when you graduate and get your license.

chris85 · Mar 2, 2006

I am in a community college program and it sucks. I don't even know where to begin b*tching about my school. One thing that happens alot is the instructors having to change test answers because it turns out the teachers were uh wrong! We just had a test about a week ago and the instructors are still having to change answers because they don't know how to write a descent test question. Luckily, I have had 4 points added to my grade because of this, but they shouldn't have to be changing answers at all. Its bad when the students have to correct the instructors about something that is in the book, and they are the ones giving the lecture. What is worst than that is sometimes they won't even bother to listen to the complaint or to even explain the rationale behind their answer. Don't get me wrong, I am learning alot. This is supposed to be the best nursing school in the state(associates and bachelors), but it is so hard it just makes you wanna break something. I just feel that there is alot that they could do to make it easier and still maintain their prestige as my school uses as an excuse all the time. They tell us "well you don't want it to be easy." No, just easier. One thing that me and fellow classmates have determined is that there is no doubt our instructors are wonderful nurses, but they are horrible teachers and that makes a huge difference.

chris85 · Mar 3, 2006

oh, and i also have to drive about an hour one way each morning to get to school. Clinicals normally start at 0615 so that means I have to wake up about 0400 two days a week for clinicals. Trying to study on those days takes alot of coffee.

ejonesstudent · Mar 3, 2006

My CC sounds alot like your schools. I have had 2 to 3 diffrent teachers in class with a diffrent clinical instructor, and they all want things diffrent. Just trying to keep up with this is enough. They also tell us wrong infomation, contradict themselves in the notes, and are very subjective about their test questions. I am in my second semester and have just failed OB. I don't know if I should try to go to another school, or if another school would even accept me after the failure. I am afraid if I try to go through the program, that I may fail out. We have an extremely high failure rate (over half our class has already failed at least once). Does anyone know of anyone who has ever FAILED OUT of nursing school. Is it over for them? Can they reapply to another nursing school and get accepted? Is there a period of time they have to wait to apply to other schools? Please tell me if you have known anyone in the above situations.

bethem · Mar 3, 2006

My uni kept firing staff last year in an effort to save some money (they are over AUD50 million in deficit). They fired so many that the Board of Nursing and Midwifery were ready to pull the uni's accreditation to teach nursing because the staff they had left were not able to teach the program effectively. It was a nightmare. Their solution was to hire TWO new staff, and make a larfe portion of the classes online instead of face to face. All I can say is that I hope all the nurses we meet on prac are right when they tell us "You learn far more out on the floor than you ever will at uni".

We have such a big workload this semester that our tutors are starting each class by apologising - they didn't write the courses. They are "fixing it" next year, which is great, but it means that I and all my cohort have to suffer this year. Ah, thank goodness it ends this year! But I am crazy enough to have about four post-grad courses I want to do, ultimately becoming a nurse practitioner, so I'll never really get away from the uni.

danfif · Mar 3, 2006

Well folks, welcome to the real world of nursing school, sad to say, but it looks like there are a whole lot of us that are either in the same boat, or have been there and done that already.

I for one am off that boat, pasted the NCLEX a year ago and am having a BLAST being a nurse. BUT, there are times that I have to sit back and scratch my head in amazement on just how I got here! We had a teacher that had Phyc issues, she had more answers that were wrong on tests than she had right at times, and would not listen to any complaints, or questions. 1 out of 25 students passed the Urology final, and the one that did passed by 1 point. We finally complained enough that she was pulled from teaching the rest of the term, thank god.

And then there are the Power Point and Over Head Queens! They would sit there and read word for word what they had hand written on over head sheets, or off of power point slides, which was word for word straight out of the book! I paid all of this money, to come here for 8 hours a day to get what? I could have stayed home and read the same information out of the book. Go Figure!

What it boils down to is that there are good teachers, but they are few and far between. You must count on nobody but yourself to learn the material. Pray for good clinical instructors, and stick your nose into every proceedure that you can at clinicals, cause thats where your going to learn the most anyway in my opinion.

Trust me though, there is light at the end of the tunnel, and it isn't a train coming at you either.

Keep the Faith!

Dan

SBSNNWCC, RN · Mar 3, 2006

Me Too! I Absoultly Love My Cc....we Have The Best Reputation For Graduated Nurses Within A 100 Mile Radius1

ejonesstudent · Mar 3, 2006

Which CC do you go to? I see you live in Mississippi.