Mean Nursing Facilitators

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i'm currently a third-year student nurse. i've had to deal with some nursing facilitators in my first and second year placements, who are very mean and usually pick on you without a reason. ​i would like to call it "prejudice" or "silent bullying".

i'm not saying that i'm better than them, but i have done a great job and totally know how confident I am. As students, we are on our placements to learn and develop our skills. However, those facilitators just expect you to be perfect and usually go around to tell nurses bad things about you. They make up some ridiculous problems in you that are not necessarily true. As a result, you are poorly judged by your preceptors and colleagues. On the outside, the facilitators pretend to be nice to you, but then they tell your preceptor/CNEs/Assessor to write terrible things on your assessment paper and fail you.

I have no idea why these women are still mentally stuck with their high-school cattiness. I believe that they have some ego issues, crave for power, enjoy wricking havoc and causing students suffering.

My friends and I have discussed the issue with our lectures and uni staff, but it seems that they don't want to believe us but defend and cover up for each other.

Why are some nursing facilitators so mean?

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Likely for the same reason that some students are over-confident and think they know more than they actually do.

Of course the nurses teaching you demand perfection. In nursing, mistakes cost lives or extend hospital stays.

In any field in which you work, there will be people who you don't like or they don't like you. You make the best of it and move on. It's part of being professional and mature.

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Likely for the same reason that some students are over-confident and think they know more than they actually do.

Of course the nurses teaching you demand perfection. In nursing, mistakes cost lives or extend hospital stays.

In any field in which you work, there will be people who you don't like or they don't like you. You make the best of it and move on. It's part of being professional and mature.

Thank you for your advice. Actually, I have been reflecting on the whole process. I didn't show a "know it all" or any other kinds of inappropriate attitude, but was very respectful and even defered to the bully. It's just that she never feels enough in torturing me mentally. I believe that she memorised my name and volunteered to see me daily in every of my placement. It is so scary to fall into that circumstance and I hope that I will have another facilitator who is always supportive to me next time.

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Usually facilitators pick the 'troubled' student on the first day.

If this has happened multiple times you need to reflect why it has happened to you

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Usually facilitators pick the 'troubled' student on the first day.

If this has happened multiple times you need to reflect why it has happened to you

I had reflected continuously before I addressed my issue here. I am not the "trouble". I am mature enough to distinguish good things from bad things. Regards

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