Bullying by Professors in Nursing School

[Gracefulmic]

Greetings! I am a 29 y/o 2nd degree nursing student. I am currently working on a paper for my Ethics class regarding Incivility and Bullying in the nursing environment. I have opted to focus this towards the nursing school environment. I have found one terrific article that deals with academic bullying by professors, but I am having a more difficult time finding one focused soley on the nursing school student. Does anyone have any ideas or links they can share? THe more I can't find articles the more I know I need to do this paper. I have peers in my school that have physical manifestations of stress related to going to clinical for fear of being yelled out, told to drop out, and that they will kill their patients. Students asking for help pronouncing a 27 letter long drug name are being told they are 'stupid' and patients won't want tobe cared for by them when they 'aren't smart enough to pronounce a word.' Instuctors telling students to 'be careful' regarding filing complaints because 'professors talk and complaining will only make you time left here harder than it needs to be.' The worst part of this situation is that the directors know but call the complaints hearsay. My Ethics professor is thrilled with the idea as she has been an advocate for students struggling with these 2 professors for over 3 yrs now. I am looking only for guidance here. I feel like I NEED to do this paper. If not for the exact change I am looking for, but to at least stir the pot and start a discussion.

[Moogie]

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[faith&joy]

I was looking for some answers to my clinical problem and found this old thread. My clinical prof. is bullying one of the students in my clinical, and it's terrible. I think the chair is backing this because she was switched after school started into this prof's. group by the Chair. This prof. is on record for bullying her in the past. It's really bad and I am thinking of going to the vice-president tomorrow. I am sure this will be the last day of my nursing carreer if I do. It's senior year....only 10 more weeks! But I can live with myself for failing out of nursing school. I will never respect myself if I don't stand up to the abuse.