How My Instructor Affected My Life

You said a mouth full as that is exactly what they are doing is acting, and I heard this straight from the horse's mouth from an actual student nurse instructor! Believe me I was asking her some questions as to why she thought it was necessary to tear students down!
So students, don't let these instructors intimidate you not for one moment!

Yes, this sometimes happens for some unknown reason. I just had my first taste of that poison. My instructor fancied herself the superhuman nurse with the knowledge of a doctor and the righteousness of a clergy, but she did not possess either characteristic. I found her very intimidating and opinionated, but our school was badly in need of an instructor and I was grateful she stepped forward. All my other instructors gave me favorable reviews, even some "eat your young" instructors I have had (not an easy feat to accomplish) and I realize this is her first time teaching, but she really did some damage and I will never forgive her abuse of power. She shot me down like a criminal. But since this has been a life long dream and I want it so badly and since my patients are the final word...she can stuff her review up her nares. I've been through breast cancer, losing my mom to lung cancer at age 60 and nursing school all in the last two years and I know I will make an incredible nurse.....so to all you nursing students out there, hang tough and don't swallow the poison these instructors are shoving down your throats.

I quit reading and replying to this thread a while back. This will be my last comment on this particular subject. I can appreciate that people want to vent, and there are probably a ton of horror stories out there to tell, but after a while it gets sort of wearying and depressing to hear it, plus one loses proper perspective I think, if you read too much of this stuff for too long. In spite of what I've read, I still believe that probably for every "Marine drill sergeant" type of nursing instructor, there are probably at least ten or twenty, who are understanding, compassionate, want to see people succeed, but yet are firm and tough when they need to be.

I am still waiting to be placed in nursing school - that wait will probably last for a little while yet - done with all pre-reqs and just about all co-reqs (will only have one left, and that's an online class). My point of mentioning all of this is that I've already gone through quite a bit of crap just to get to where I am now. I will have already gone through an extraordinary amount of s**t even before I spend one day in a nursing school, just to get there in the first place. From my own experience, most people are "weeded out" even before they get to nursing school.

A nursing instructor who happens to work in another capacity at the facility where I work commented to a group of nurses she was meeting with that there isn't, in her opinion, a need to weed people out of nursing school - most of that happens in pre-nursing. And I can personally attest to that by my own experience. If I were going to drop out of this, I would have done it long ago.

To all of you out there who like me are planning on being a nurse, don't let any of the negative talk or scare stories put you off. Go into this eyes wide open to be sure - I am - I already work for a large metropolitan hospital where the crime rate is high, and there are lots gang member shootings, and lots of homeless "street people". I know what I'm getting into here. At the same time you mustn't inordinately focus on just the bad stuff, and let it discourage you, dissuade you, or get you down. Nursing is a noble vocation and calling (yes, it's a calling, and always will be for many people - I'm replying to someone on another thread who suggested that maybe it was at one time, but not anymore) - it will always be a vocation, and more than just a job. It's usually harder to break into a real vocation - that's to be expected. You will run into these things in your training in that vocation. All things, including the posts to this thread have to be put into their proper perspective. And that will be my final word on this particular thread.