Does your school have a clue?

[wonderbee]

At our school, information is misinformation and you can't trust any of it from ANYONE unless you see it in writing. Once again we're between semesters awaiting further instructions. At the end of our first semester, we were told by our second semester faculty that we would have our August clinical assignments before final exams as we will be going immediately to clinical when we start up again. Final exams came and went and the info never came. A couple of days ago, I was on campus and stopped in to check to see if they were posted. I happened upon one of the program administrators. She told me we would not know this info till the first week of school and no one would have promised clinical assignments till then. Our county is huge. What will happen to the student who has to drop their kid off at school or daycare? With clinical starting two days after school starts, who will have time to rearrange or people dependent on public or arranged transportation? We haven't even been told what classes we have to register for and registration starts next month.

Is your school in a similar state of cluelessness? This is only one instance where we are forced to stumble in the dark. Sometimes I think they do this stuff on purpose just to watch our reactions. It irks me to no end that the last people considered in our nursing program are the students. :angryfire

[Altra, BSN, RN]

Since it appears that I'm being a bit of a boob about this issue, I have to ask this one question: how would you feel if you were passed on information by those in the know, and then told that we are misinformed and it's because the communication couldn't possibly have happened as we say it did? See, this is the fire that's lighting the flame with me and my fellow students. I am pissed off about this because it's a continuing occurrence and it raises issues about integrity. It is no small thing to be identified as a liar. Do you believe that this is OK?

RNKittyKat,

So sorry this is happening - of course it's not OK. I don't know the details, but the only thing I could possibly offer is that if this "info" is being passed on in one-to-one conversations, not to the group as a whole, then maybe the source is just plain unreliable and the only option is to wait until you're told AS A GROUP. I'm not defending it by any stretch -- "I can't give you that information at this time" would be the correct response to a question, not pulling things out of the air.