Re: is the university wrong?
I have contacted the dean of the nursing department. he said he will look into it and contact legal if necessary. This is not the first time we (the students) have had a problem with this lady. She had tried to raise our credit hours per class before so that in a quarter, with three classes, we were taking 16 credit hours, and this is a private university, so one quarter is about 6,000 dollars or more per quarter! and most of us students are depending on private loans to subsidize our income and living expenses. If she would have told me in the beginning this was a going to affect me graduating, i would not have started the program. I am now 45,000 in debt, I have lost a year of my life, and for what, half a master's degree? Why do they do the backround check in the first place? the only reason i got this far, i found out, is because they were not telling the hospitals about my conviction. other professors admit that they made the mistake, that they should have looked into it more. It is not like i want to sue for millions or anything, but if i have to drop out of the program, i would like some compensation the money i have spent due to wrong information. I asked another teacher who takes care of clinicals what else i should have done, he said nothing, it was their responsibility.
pawpawjohn, i appreciate your sympathy and info, but how has your conviction affected your nursing career? did you get it expunged? how? would it be wise for me to try and continue, or should i consider a career in something else?
i mean, i am always up for a challenge, but this may be too much. were able to find a satisfying job at a good hospital?
My university required all the nursing students to perform backround check on themselves and turn them into the head office. I did so knowing i had just been convicted a few months earlier of domestic battery. I went to the head of the department and sked her if this would pse a problem during my time at the university. She siad no, it should not be a problem.A bout a month ago, i was doing a clinical rotation at a hospital separate form our university. they asked us if we had ever been convicted of a crime, i said yes and the hospital performed it's own backround check. the hospital pulled me out of rotation and said that i had to leave and could not continue any more clinicals there. I had already done two clinical rotations without any pproblems until this last hospital. Two days ago, the head of the deparment said that no more hospitals would take me. i asked her why they i would be fine. she said, what are you going to do sue us? a and then she proceeded to insist that she made no promises. do i have grounds to sue? they had my backround on file. And my next clinical site, which now will not take me, i had done clinicals there already, just they did no backround check themselves and the university did not tell any of the hospitals about my backround. i have spent 40, 000 dollars in the past year to get my masters in an entry program (i have a bs in biology). and now the university says i cannot complete the program without clinicals and i cant do my clinicals without expunging this off my record, which may take anywhere between 2-5 years. what can i do?
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