I would love some feedback please...

[wv_nurse 2003]

I graduated from an AD program in 2001. A student who started with me, but failed a 1st year class, then retook the semester and failed again, is suing the college and the instructor. I just don't understand how he can do this! Isn't it the student's responsibility to PASS the classes? I don't know what he hopes to accomplish by suing, or even what his grounds for suing are. I just wondered what you all thought about students suing nursing schools when they fail. Are these the people we want taking care of us when we get older?

[sjoe]

Initiating a lawsuit takes only some money and, sometimes, some legal advice.

WINNING a lawsuit is a completely different matter indeed.

If I, for example, wanted to waste some money and time, I could sue Brian for providing a space (this BB) in which I publicly humiliate myself through posting my own nonsense and cranky opinions.

Winning the lawsuit would be a bit trickier, of course.

[boggle, ASN, RN]

So add another reason to why it is getting harder and harder to find good nursing instructors. As if the job wasn't hard enough....

[TNcanNURSE]

I know a girl that completed every class to receive an ADN except for one. The last day she was supposed to turn in an assignment and didn't so she failed. She blames it on the teacher and says she did turn it in.

Been a couple of years now. She won't go back. Thinks the teacher is out to get her or something. Won't go to another school either.

Spent an awful lot of time in college to work as a cashier

[TNcanNURSE]

My instructors were both heinous and effective.

[Dr. Kate, BSN, RN]

Ah, for the good old days when they booted people out of programs because they didn't have the personality (or whatever) to be a nurse. Didn't know so much about suing in those days.

[wv_nurse 2003]

Interestingly enough, I remember an instructor I had in school who made it VERY clear that it wasn't going to be good or bad instructors that decided whether or not we turned out to be good nurses---that was entirely up to US. I have to say, she was right. I had some very good instructors, from whom I learned a great deal. I also had some -- let's just say "less motivated/motivating" instructors from whom I learned---that I was the only one responsible for what I got out of a class!! Sure maybe their lectures were "rote" out of a text, and maybe they weren't even the most clinically competent, but in the end, it was up to me to learn the material.