Five sue over nursing-school ouster

I was told this story by a nurse who'd graduated from Iowa before later becoming a travel nurse and ending up here in AZ.

There was an instructor at an eastern Iowa school who bragged that if you could find the answer to one of her test questions in any reference she wasn't doing her job.

Apparently she thought her job was to make things as tough as possible, in order to prepare her students for "the real world." Later she was fired and lost her license after turning off drips in an ICU rotation to see if the students caught them during their assessments, and then forgetting to turn them back on after they failed to notice them.

I have seen only 2 types of instructors in my time in nursing school: those who seriously mentor and aid their students, and those who play favorites while trying to make things difficult for the ones who don't meet their personal criteria. I would be hard pressed to name any who fell in between.

Ayrman

I had a clinical instructor who was proud of herself for 'weeding someone out' from each of her clinical rotations. She bragged about it.

I was told this story by a nurse who'd graduated from Iowa before later becoming a travel nurse and ending up here in AZ.

There was an instructor at an eastern Iowa school who bragged that if you could find the answer to one of her test questions in any reference she wasn't doing her job.

Apparently she thought her job was to make things as tough as possible, in order to prepare her students for "the real world." Later she was fired and lost her license after turning off drips in an ICU rotation to see if the students caught them during their assessments, and then forgetting to turn them back on after they failed to notice them.

I have seen only 2 types of instructors in my time in nursing school: those who seriously mentor and aid their students, and those who play favorites while trying to make things difficult for the ones who don't meet their personal criteria. I would be hard pressed to name any who fell in between.

Ayrman

i remember when my clinical instructor failed me for no reason, and ive heard before that she never liked men to begin and always failed men in her clinical prob after she had a divorce with her husband. She always reminded me her license is more important than her students and she could care less if we fail. i took it to the dean but nothing was done. I still graduated with my BSN and until this day that instructor still gets under my skin. Shes not even in good terms with her son who goes to the same university but a different major

Shes has had 3 years of nasty evaluations and she still has her job until this day. Unbelievable

I met more than one nurse in the community who had the misfortune to have been failed out of nursing school by a certain instructor. This individual did, indeed, brag about her role at the school for weeding out students that were about to graduate. I found her to be a sadistic, sick individual and could see why she was not at the bedside. This is the same instructor who told me to steal needles and syringes. Anybody who brags about eliminating people who go on to be productive nurses after attending other nursing schools, has got something in their background that employers would not want. I mean really, steal needles and syringes?

Those that can do it - do it and those that can't - teach. As I think back to all the instructors I have seen/known I have found that is true to a certain point even in nursing. Even the ones' that claim to be passionate about teaching and helping the future nurses, always wanted to do it... didn't get into it until their age, weight or something else made it diffucult for them to be on the floor. The best instructor I had didn't get into it until her age/weight made it difficult to work. Teaching pays alot less than doing the real thing. I should save alot of people the effort of defending someone/their mentor.. by saying I know there are exceptions to everything including the "do it/teach" rule.

I had one instructor (a filipina) that pulled my filipino buddy aside and told him he shouldn't be asking questions in front of other people (in class)because it made Philippinos look stupid. I am glad to say she only lasted a couple months.