Failed A Course...

nurseprnRN, BSN, RN · Jun 24, 2015

For what it's worth, as an instructor I've had students who had good GPAs but were very challenged by clinical. Supplemental assignments such as you describe were usually good ways to open their eyes to other ways of learning to think like nurses. So without knowing a lot more about your situation, it would be impossible to speculate as to whether you were unfairly treated or whether your faculty was actually trying to find ways for you to learn enough about the role to be passed on to the next level. We only have one side of the story, don't we?

PapaBearRN, BSN · Jun 24, 2015

What problems did you encounter at the clinical site? The extra work is known as remediation and is given not as a punishment but as an opportunity to improve your weaknesses. But I'm really curious about this bias you speak of that caused you to fail clinicals.

Kyliemb · Jun 24, 2015

Thank you for the responses. I would prefer not to reveal too much about my situation that would reveal my identity.

NurseGirl525, ASN, RN · Jun 24, 2015

To be honest, by filing discrimination charges, you should just consider yourself done at this school. Hopefully you had real evidence of discrimination, not what you put in here. You wrote you felt there was a bias and you had some extra assignments. Not really proof of any bias. I'm sure your clinical instructor had good reason for it. Maybe you weren't grasping clinical. Maybe this was her trying to help you pass.

Frankly I'm tired of students coming in here and not taking responsibility for their failures. It's always someone else's fault. I would be more apt to give quality advice to someone who says I screwed up this semester, I was just having a hard time understanding how to do certain skills, and I'm not sure what to do.

This it's not my fault attitude won't get you far in the real works, especially nursing where you will carry great responsibility on your shoulders. Just know that you pretty much screwed yourself at this school and I would make other plans.

PapaBearRN, BSN · Jun 24, 2015

Something must have been occurring throughout the rotation because you were assigned remediation during your semester. Was there any task/skill/assessment in clinicals in which you felt weak on? Did you make any errors or potential errors that could of caused harm to a patient?

Kyliemb · Jun 24, 2015

That is awfully negative. On what grounds did I screw myself? If the school retaliates and I can prove retaliation by the school they are screwed.

AlphaM · Jun 24, 2015

To be honest, by filing discrimination charges, you should just consider yourself done at this school.

Shouldn't title IX protect the student from retaliation by the school? Anyway, we have one side of the story here but in my experience just because you're good academically doesn't mean you'll be good clinically.

PapaBearRN, BSN · Jun 24, 2015

To be honest, by filing discrimination charges, you should just consider yourself done at this school. Hopefully you had real evidence of discrimination, not what you put in here. You wrote you felt there was a bias and you had some extra assignments. Not really proof of any bias. I'm sure your clinical instructor had good reason for it. Maybe you weren't grasping clinical. Maybe this was her trying to help you pass.
Frankly I'm tired of students coming in here and not taking responsibility for their failures. It's always someone else's fault. I would be more apt to give quality advice to someone who says I screwed up this semester, I was just having a hard time understanding how to do certain skills, and I'm not sure what to do.
This it's not my fault attitude won't get you far in the real works, especially nursing where you will carry great responsibility on your shoulders. Just know that you pretty much screwed yourself at this school and I would make other plans.

Couldn't agree more! I always tell people, "don't make excuses, just take ownership and make sure it never happens again." The person with a million plus reasons for why they fudged up never seems to learn from their mistakes.

Kyliemb · Jun 24, 2015

Shouldn't title IX protect the student from retaliation by the school? Anyway, we have one side of the story here but in my experience just because you're good academically doesn't mean you'll be good clinically.

It does protect you from retaliation :)

PapaBearRN, BSN · Jun 24, 2015

That is awfully negative. On what grounds did I screw myself? If the school retaliates and I can prove retaliation by the school they are screwed.

Life is a game of politics. You need to learn how to navigate your way through all of it. By filing charges you put yourself under a huge microscope and you bit the hand that was feeding you. Tread carefully.

mirandaaa · Jun 24, 2015

There seems to be an awfully long list of finger-pointing going on here and not taking any blame for yourself.

If you truly feel that you were treated so unjustly, why would you try to continue going to this school? If all of the things you listed truly happened to me in the way you stated, I would have been gone long ago.

Doesn't make much sense to me.

My suggestion is to take a look at what YOU may be doing wrong and focus less on how "others are out to get you" because chances are, this is not the case. Take some responsibility for what's happening and work on improving it. There may be some factors that are outside of your control, and this is understandable, but keep in mind that you have to take some responsibility, too.