Do you ever get the feeling your professors are trying to weed you out?

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How do you combat that feeling knowing you are stuck with them for months longer?

Specializes in acute care.

Some students weed themselves out.

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Specializes in Operating Room.

I don't feel personally that any professor is trying to weed me out. However, there is this one instructor who I feel teaches at a graduate level and has exceedingly high expectations -- is trying to weed us all out. Not only were we stuck with her for pharm, we got stuck with her again for med/surg II. Last semester's student said for the first test, basically everyone failed. She is as tough as nails.

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YES they do....I am in my fourth semester and I know from what I have seen and heard they do in fact "WEED" the class out. I do not think it is right but what can I say about :confused:

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Wow...some of these stories are making me nervous...I won't lie. I understand making sure you have the knowledge you should have by the end of the class, but some of this is just a little discouraging and I haven't even started NS yet. :eek:

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Specializes in LTC.

I've always thought they weed students out. However this thought was proven wrong this last quarter. I was really struggling and my instructor reached out to me and offered 1:1 help. I didn't take it, though. I did pass my LPN year (last quarter was the final quarter) and I start my RN year in less than month. I thanked my instructor for being so helpful. I think that more often than not students weed themselves out. Nursing is a profession where a nurse's mistake can mean life and death.

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When I think of the last school I attended, I have to admit that it - STILL STINGS, 'til now. Yup, it still "stings," maybe I'll try again with this school. But, then again, maybe not. All I know is that --

I know nursing schools have their policies. But, for me and most people... those policies don't really "sink" in 'til it happens to me/us. I'm just glad that their policy happened during my first semester and NOT last semester -- now, that would've been a LOT more painful.

It's good to know that I see the "bright" things in stormy/rainy days. Like I said, there are usually rainbows in situations. It just takes a little longer to find sometimes. :)

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Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.

How do you handle it? You find out what they want...and then you give it to them. It is a few months to get through for a career you will have for the rest of your life.

Instead of focusing on the "hard" of it, focus on the "how can I learn and produce what is expected of me" part of it.

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How about this? Schools who get rid of their own profs.? How about this for a change?

I just found out that my favorite pre-req instructor just moved back to her state. I was meaning to meet with her last or next week to get into her class, and she's NOT even in the state! Geez, my state is really losing a lot of good people nowadays.

I'm pretty sure she didn't want to leave. I know she has tenure. So, obviously she wasn't going anywhere! All these cuts are making good people leave the state. Off the topic I know. . . but, if this recession continues -- it's just not the instructors weeding students out, but the schools themselves will continue to weed more of their instructors.

I'm disappointed and a little sad. My state just suc*s now. Eww..

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Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.

Yep you just choose not to be one of the ones that are "weeded" out. I wasn't impressed to find out that a set ratio are supposed to fail but I will just need to make sure it isn't me failing. Our instructors are very helpful though and the school offers many resources but I guess if the class average is too high it means the tests aren't hard enough. Survival of the fittest.

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Our school had two terms that were openly discussed as weeding out points. I had a clinical instructor who, when telling me that she was failing me (with absolutely no warning) gleefully let it be known that this was her intention all along. She was a general sicko but I was blind to her and she blindsided me.

OMG, That's terrible that she actually seemed to take pleasure in failing you. That's a mark of a very not nice person if they take pleasure in seeing someone fail. A friend of mine ended up failing 1st semester and several of my classmates were overjoyed that she was gone. What kind of jerk do you have to be to take pleasure in the fact that your fellow classmate failed? :mad:

I'm sure you were heartbroked at the time but you persevered and became a nurse:D

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Academics.
What kind of jerk do you have to be to take pleasure in the fact that your fellow classmate failed? :mad:

With only one of my classmates, I won't be shedding any tears when/if she is gone. I've had her in group work, and she is a leech. Does nothing, makes excuses, and then says she "needs help" to finish her part at the last minute. When you're in a group, you can only hold out assistance for so long before you MUST do another's work in order to save your own grade. Should I really be sad when she is gone? (That's rhetorical, btw.) ;)

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Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.

I won't lie, their were a few students through the past year that didn't make it that I did a little happy dance for :|

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