Do you keep in touch with your old nursing instructor?

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Specializes in LTC, Med/Surg, Peds, ICU, Tele.

Does anyone keep in touch with any of your old intructors? I graduated over 15 years ago and have always kept in touch with one of my instructors who was such an inspiration to me. She really encouraged me in that last semester and her lectures made the material come alive for me. Without her I wouldn't have made it through nursing school but would have had a total nervous breakdown, she was that important in my life.

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I just graduated 6 months ago and I do pop in to school from time to time and say hello to my most favorite instructor. She was the one to give me the push to have confidence in myself, my instincts and my skills. Whats funny is she is a year or so younger than me, but has been a nurse for all the years I should have been too.

We;ve run into each other out and about. She always introduces me as her "star" student and how she wishes all her students were like me. A bit embarrassing to say the least. But I always recoprocate with "and she was my "star" teacher, I wish all my teachers were like her"

I want to clone her and put her as an instructor when I start my RN program :)

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Specializes in ICU, PICC Nurse, Nursing Supervisor.

i keep in contact through a friend with one ..however, i am looking for another one of my instructors from my lvn program at jps in ft worth..so if you taught there please pm me. anyway the teacher i am searching for was very hard on me but i think it was because she saw something in me. i know now why she did everything she did and why she pushed so hard... even 10 years later when i do a procedure and have to tweak it to make it work...(exp putting in a cath from the back angle) i always think of her and what kind of trouble i would get if she were there...lol

i want to thank her for all she did for me and the encouragement and punishment she dealt me...i will be a rn soon and the fact that i made it this far is because i keep her on my shoulder over looking my practice..like a little she devil...lol

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Specializes in ER, PACU, Med-Surg, Hospice, LTC.

I never felt a connection with any of my instructors. They were either total bullies or completely disconnected from the classroom and the students.

Well, all except for one......an instructor I had during the LPN program. She was very strict, but fair and compassionate. She never put students down. Never humiliated them.

I use to run into her around town every 4-6 months. We would often stop and talk and sometimes sit and have latte or something. She was so smart and funny and really a great person!

Then I didn't see her for awhile...maybe a year or so. I called the school and the only thing they told me was that she was no longer employed with them. I did a bit more digging and found out that she had died from ovarian cancer. I was so sad. I wished I could see her again to thank her for all that she had done for me during school.

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Specializes in Trauma,ER,CCU/OHU/Nsg Ed/Nsg Research.

I keep in touch with 2 of my BSN professors, who encouraged me to continue my education. I just really admire both of them.

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Nope. I hated my instructors in LPN school and did the RN on-line, as I am the MSN.

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Specializes in MSP, Informatics.

Nope, don't keep in touch with any of them. Some I liked, some I didn't like. Some I felt were just instructors because they couldn't cut it in the real world anymore.

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I had to call my old MA instructor for some record and she didn't remember me. Granted it was a 9 month program, but it was only 2 years ago and only 30 in the program.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Nope, I moved so much, I attended several schools in different states and don't live in any of them anymore! Like one of the other posters, I felt zero connection with any instructors/students. We were for the most part, adult learners who had lives and school was just one more "thing" we did in our lives.

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Yes, one of my instructors in LPN school pushed me to be all I could be. I love her for it, and email her from time to time to check on her.

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

I haven't seen any of them since graduation and I honestly can't think of their names. Guess they weren't that big of an influence. LOL

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No, I don't. It was enough to keep up with friends and family much less any nursing instructors.

My nursing school is celebrating 100 years of existence this summer and I will probably catch up with some instructors at that time.

otessa

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