My hubby and I are attending an LVN program together, this is the last couple weeks of our first semester - 2 more to go. We are both experiencing so much frustration that we have at many times considered dropping out. Not due to grades as we are both at the top of our class as far as that goes, but due to the instructors. We have a few instructors all of which are completely disorganized, don't communicate with each other, catty, and there seems to be no accountability. We spend day after day literally wasting time by waiting on instructors to arrive (often more then 15 minutes late to class), then waiting for them to figure out what we are doing today, then once one of them figures out what we are doing the other one comes along and gets on to someone for doing it that way and then we have to waste some more time for the instructors to tell us how we all never listen, are never organized, and need to do better. One instructor on occassion looses her temper and berates the students in front of each other telling them things like 'you are going to be a horrible nurse', 'if it were up to me i would kick you out'. OH and then there is the testing. We have never tested when we were supposed to, things are always changed at the last minute, and when you get the test there is a high likelihood that you will look on the bottom and see it is a test from 1997 and does not have any information from your current materials. ALL the materials are old. We paid for a syllabus that I swear is dated on most worksheets, study guides, and notes.. before 2001. It is insane the amount of chaos we have to deal with on a daily basis, simply because the instructors have no idea what they are doing, or what day it is for that matter. And if that is not enough most of them have the attitude that LVN school is just hard and we are just not coping well if we complain .. we need to be more flexible they say..
I am just wondering is this the norm for LVN schools. I mean I could kinda see why, as the pay is not lucrative in teaching therefore you are not likely to get a lot of stellar instructors. BUT does it get better in the BSN program.
