Teacher offering Ativan scripts....?

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I am in second year of nursing school and during our orientation a teacher (he happens to be an N.P.) offered his help in providing anti-anxiety medication for testing purposes. He mentioned something along the lines of "It has worked tremendously well for other students... amazing turn around". He can teach very well, but I can't stand how he/the program itself, have decided to handle certain issues 'at hand'. Right now, I feel like I have been pushed around and I'm not sure who to go to (other than a lawyer). I am going to post another topic that is related to what I have had to deal with in previous semesters, but I wanted to really address this ativan issue. Is this more than weird? As in.. illegal? Seems the position of power and the sense of 'showing off' is rather obvious.. to me anyway. I'm looking for other opinions that can see it from the outside in (as I'm already biased)!

Specializes in Clinical Research, Outpt Women's Health.

I would love to hear the other side of the story. I wonder what the actual wording was. Perhaps he/she was alerting the class that this was an option for people with severe test anxiety. Hard to know.

My feeling though is that you have not been harmed in any way so what is the big deal? If you continue tilting at windmills like this I predict you will never make it through school. Quite frankly I very much doubt your interpretation of the events/intent of what was said. And i wonder why you would waste so much energy on it because IF an offer like that was made then all you do is not act on it.

If I am totally wrong in what I am saying please clarify so I can understand better what you are so upset about.

Specializes in Adult Internal Medicine.

It's the timeline that is strange to me. The OP says the offer was made in school orientation. But in other posts he/she has indicated she in her last semester?

Did this comment happen, then months passed in which there were academic struggles, now it's being revisited?

Thank you everyone.... all the comments ( "good" and "bad") have been tremendously helpful and has given me a way to look at it differently - which was what I was going for. Thanks again and... happy nursing :)

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