Failed Maternity Clinical? :(

[BanannaFish]

I'm completely heartbroken. I was informed that I was failing clinical (Maternity) on Dec. 16th. I had no idea that I was in danger of failing. I thought I had a good relationship with my instructor. I was made out to be unsafe, incompetent, unable to initiate independent nursing actions. I was failed 38 areas out of a 74 piece evaluation. Every section had comments saying generalized statements such as "no critical thinking abilities", "could not identify OB patient concerns", "needed step by step instruction".

The cherry on top was that she said I was "Awkward and robotic". I feel like that is just flat out hurtful. I've always been told I have great relationships with my patients, and I never had any reason to believe I didn't.

I tried reaching out and asking to sit down with her, but she will not meet with me.

Anyone else fail maternity clinical? Maternity and Medsurg are combined in this class, so even if you pass Medsurg, you still fail the entire class. Meaning, you retake both rotations. My grades are fine, no where near failing. (medsurg= 86 + maternity=85 ).

I'll do whatever I have to improve. I'd like to hear stories of others who have failed and still became nurses, NP's, etc.

[RunBabyRN]

Maybe the program needs to do what my school did for clinicals and establish a midway review. Even in the short clinicals we met with our instructors and read how we were being marked. It didn't count against us if we were unsatisfactory at that point but we had to be satisfactory by the end of the clinical.

Agreed. We have a midway eval and a final eval. It's a good opportunity for the instructor to discuss any concerns they have about your performance and how you can improve. I'm glad we have this.

[cmccauley1]

I would definitely go to someone above your instructor. If we are not doing something right or if we have room to improve on something, our instructor will pull us aside and talk to us and have us practice in our simlab. I believe that it is the right thing to go to the dean of the nursing school or the chair of the department to get to the bottom of this. The instructor should WANT to talk to you about how to improve and not just leave you guessing. Good luck!!!

[Shailat]

For the midterm evaluation, would you need to get a certain grade to continue along such as a C?