Just a rant to start, then I will share examples. School I'm enrolled in is RN-ASN.
New classes starts Monday, March 16th. This week is "Spring Break" and campus is closed. I am enrolled in "Med-Surg II" or Complex, with corresponding clinical. Clinical is Monday & Tuesday. I have been repeatedly checking the online information for the classes and the instructor has not yet uploaded it.
This is not my first time in the rodeo. I know once they get the course information online, there will be approx. 1 ream of papers worth of stuff that needs to be printed out, as well as the information I *NEED* in order to be able to make it to the correct location for clinical Monday. Right now, 2 days before clinical, I have no idea where to meet, whether we need to be wearing scrubs or the business casual, or even any idea or where the clinical location is. Only e-mail I have received from the school is about a school wide convocation. At least I know my e-mail is working.
My plan is to continue to check the online information and e-mail in hopes that my instructor uploads the information before I need to leave the house Monday. If not, I will show up to the campus Monday wearing business casual with student scrubs in a bag in my car and go and see if they have any information at the school that may have been posted DURING SPRING BREAK.
Now for examples in why I feel my school is disorganized, aside from the above which is really more of an individual instructor issue.
- First experience with Nursing school was the new student orientation Friday last year in January. School to start Monday. You know the one. "Say goodbye to your life, your family, your pets. Quit your job. You are now a nursing student." Anyway. The instructor doing the orientation makes an announcement that "Some peoples schedules have been changed. Be sure to check the online information." Thanks for letting us know. In talking with students, those that had checked their schedules the Friday before did not know about changes. The changes seem to have been noted by those who checked again Monday. So the school knew for a full 4 days before announcing it during orientation. How about a simple e-mail? You are able to e-mail everyone telling us about the orientation, why not let us know so those of us who have jobs, car-pool, other obligations AS SOON as you knew about the schedule changes? Oh yeah. We are not to have any lives outside nursing school. 2 students in my class had to drop to be re-enrolled because they had finialized work scheduled based on what has been posted. My Wed/Thurs clinical was now changed to Friday evening Saturday all day. Welcome to nursing school indeed.
- Next weirdness didn't happen until the start of half of the Fall semester. The week before our Mental Health clinical started, we received a flood of e-mails and conflicting course information online changing instructors, times to meet, clinical sites, until ultimately we were told to meet on campus Monday morning to meet with "unknown instructor" at 8 am. Clinical turned out fine (other than the fact that we had to do alternate assignments 3 of the 8 weeks due to lack of patients available at our clinical site and we were unable to change clinical sites halfway through the class.)
- I was supposed to take this class January 2009. I had to drop the class the beginning of Fall 2008 due to a family medical emergency. I had to petition for readmitance, and there really wasn't an issue about me retaking the course. I had never had to re-take a course. If you petition for readmittance, you don't enroll yourself, the school enrolls you. So I made sure that my petition was accepted and was told to check the web site for what classes I was enrolled in. The week before school was to start in January, I still wasn't enrolled. I called the school. Turns out, there wasn't any classes available to enroll me into. Yet other students, who had FAILED and petitioned for readmittance had been enrolled in these classes. My petition, since I dropped very early and submitted my petition very early, was at the bottom of a pile of students. And they simply didn't have an open clinical spot for me. I requested to be enrolled in the next available class, which they did (March). Fair would have been enrolling people in a first come first serve type basis. Based on date of petition acceptance maybe? Instead they enrolled : "Whose application for readmittance in next in this giant pile of paperwork I've had on my desk?" style.
Thanks for letting me vent. I love nursing school. I feel I have finally found something I enjoy and I'm good at. Please share your stories of school disorganization so I can feel that I am not alone. Or just tell me I need more patience. I already know I need more patients.
YES. For all of the harping they do about organizing our clinical day and making us draw up ridiculous plans, they appear painfully hypocritical at this point.
Bottom line--- nursing school is run by women, sorry but it's true, women are highly disorganized, scatter brained, often emotional, vengeful, spiteful.
One of the main offenders in this area at my school is a man. I'd claim that most trolls are women too, but there are exceptions.
i do all my printing on the computers at campus. if they have a problem with that, don't charge me a 95 dollar fee each class.
amen!! i don't print anything from home. i just go on campus an hour early and get all my printing done because they won't refund the "tech fee" if you don't use it.
Haha no I didn't join to rant on a 2 year old post, I've been to college have two bachelors degrees and am now working on my nursing degree, every nurse I talk to says nursing school is highly disorganized and dysfunctional, it is only that way because the people who run it make it that way, either they do it on purpose or they are disorganized and dysfunctional themselves.
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YES. For all of the harping they do about organizing our clinical day and making us draw up ridiculous plans, they appear painfully hypocritical at this point.