Dismissed from Nursing school

[cristinb4]

After almost 3 years and more of hard studying and dedication, I was dissmissed from the program. I know that it was something personal with my teacher and I would please like some imput and opinions. The reason I was dissmissed was because I was about to administer lovenox ,and I know it's an anticoagulant and a subcutaneous injection, and I was also taught that the best site to administer this medication is in the abdominal region, but I did not know it was the ONLY site like my teacher said. I gathered a couple of information from cardiology sites and from lovenox and they said that there has been no studies or evidence that administeing at any other subcutaneous site could be a harm, threat or interfere with the patient's treatment , but that the manufacturer reccomends that the preffered site for maximum absorption is the abdomen.But can this really be a motive for dissmissal? Please share your comments. Thank you.

[ladymedik]

Did you go to school in South Carolina???!!! Sounds to me like my story. I had an instructor who dismissed me out of hand for what she "felt" was a mistake. I was devastated for a while, but got right back up and completed the program thru Excelsior College in less time than it would have taken had I finished the other way. If you know in your heart that nursing is for you, don't ever let someone take it away from you. Find another program somewhere else. Unfortunately, some instructors have been out of the clinical setting for so long they really don't know the way things are done, or they have such an ego that they forget that they have people's dreams in their hands. Keep fighting if this is what you want.

[Faeriewand, ASN, RN]

Please expound on the reasons for probation. And I agree with others in fight with all your might. Try to get in another program or try to join back into the one you were dismissed from. An error in clinical doesn't mean you can't be a good nurse when all is said and done. Good luck :)

[P_RN, ADN, RN]

Let me be the first to "confess." I had a girl who had gone belly first into the handlebars of a motorcycle, she HAD no belly much less belly fat. I called the Lovenox rep and she came to the unit. She said the "suggested" "preferred" sites were just that.Suggestions. When we looked the girl over she had sufficient fat flabs on the backs of her arms. This was run by the clinical specialist, the chief pharmacist and her doctor. All agreed in this case thes two posteriou upper arm fat pads were preferred and thus that is what we did.

[OrthoRN09]

I have personally never considering giving lovenox, heparin or anything similar in any location other than the abdomen. That does seem like a very weak reason to be completely dismissed from the program.

I hate to be "that person", but it seems like everyone that has ever been dismissed from a nursing program thinks it's through no fault of their own. I have yet to hear someone own up to it and say, yes I should've been kicked out. Sorry, but that's just my opinion.

[kbm318]

I agree why were you placed on probation to begin with?

[southern rn]

I did not administer the injection, I was warned by my instructor that this wasn't the appropiate site. And before this incident, I was placed on probation for an entire semester and had to do medication pass on every single clinical day. I was exposed more than any other classmate on medication pass and passed clinical for one semester, but she continued to have me placed on probation after the second semester. The first incident was completlly unreliable. She wrote an incident report that had false facts which she admitted in a meeting, and my mistake was signing a form because of pressure and fear.

Well, let me start by saying that I am truly sorry you were dismissed from school. Truly I am. With that being said.....

you are saying you gave medications every single day you had clinicals for an entire semester and had more exposure than any of your other classmates giving medications. What I will ask you is this:did you not give lovenox anytime before this incident? Were you not aware of the "suggested location" to give the injection (either thru looking it up, or by having given it previously)

These are questions that will be asked to you if you appeal your dismissal. If you were already on probation (rightly or wrongly)you had a lot less wiggle room for error. You were being watched like a hawk for any deviations from standard practice and you gave it to them. If you can fight this and be reinstated, DON'T GIVE THEM ANY MORE AMMUNITION.

[t2000JC]

A suggestion that has come in handy is to take a breath, and write down the the facts of what occurred (not just this incident but any others that may have been connected to this dismissal) and your perspective. That way, when you do meet with someone (and I think you should) you will have something on paper that you can refer to. This way it won't come off as an emotional defendant response but just stating the facts.

t.