Got chewed out by my clinical instructor

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The story is really long but I will shorten it, so if it seems like gaps are missing it's because there are.

My clinical instructor kicked us out of the simulation lab because we were rude to her by quoting an inside joke the other professors often repeated to us. "Sorry to bother you at work". She must have not gotten the memo that 1/ it was our second time in the sim lab, so we weren't still sure how protocol worked and 2/ must not hang out with the other professors.

Anyway, she kicked us out, chewed us out for being unprofessional and then made us sit in time out while the other group of students got to finish working and practicing with the sim person. One of the girls started crying and I just thought that the professor could have handled it differently. Now, I don't give a horse's tail about being yelled at, but I feel like my time was wasted just because one professor doesn't know how to handle nervous and giggly block 1 students. Personally, I know jack shizz about working in a hospital so, instead of being yelled at, and put in time out, she could have run in there told us we were being uprofessional and made us start over. That would have been a useful pain in the butt, and less traumatizing for the others.

Phew. Anyway, I'm not really looking for advice or anything, but just wanted to share this funny/ridic story to get it off my chest. thanks for listening!! :)))

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Specializes in Hospice, Palliative Care.

I guess I'm old school because we were taught in elementary school, unless invited or has developed a professional relationship, one doesn't hang with professors. They are not our peers! It should also have been known that nursing school clinicals (of which SIM lab counts) isn't the time for telling jokes when professors are nearby. Take SIM seriously as if you were in a patient's room. "giggly students..." is this middle school or nursing school?

I don't find the story funny; only sad if its true.

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Sounds like your professor does know how to handle "giggly" nursing students. The group was unprofessional and inappropriate (of course, so were the professors who shared the "joke" with students), and s/he set limits on that.

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Next time act like the professionals you aspire to be? Sim lab hours are clinical hours. There is a minimum necessary to graduate and be permitted to sit the NCLEX. If you keep getting kicked out I don't see how you'll make that amount.

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I don't "get" the joke at all. But I agree with the other posters that "giggly" nursing students need to stop being giggly and be professional. And I agree with the professor who gave you all a "time out".

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

IMO, you WERE being treated as responsible adults. You were undoubtedly aware of the ground rules for Sim Lab and the consequences for violating those rules. Allowing disruptive behavior to continue? That would be disrespectful to the other participants.

Valuable lesson learned. Follow the rules.

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Time to grow up and behave professionally, Miss Giggles.

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I just have to say that I haven't even started my program yet but I don't find your story to be funny or "redic" at all. This is a professional program and should be treated as such. Even if you have an inside joke with one professor you shouldn't assume that all the professors hang out and are in on the same joke. You said that you felt like your time was wasted...it sounds like you were wasting your professors time by not taking sim lab seriously.

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

Your story isn't funny, but it is "ridic" in that you don't seem to have a clue that YOU were in the wrong, not your professor. You behaved unprofessionally, and your professor handled it in such a way that you weren't allowed to interrupt the learning of the other students who weren't behaving unprofessionally. The fact that one girl cried doesn't make the professor wrong. It means that one girl needs to learn to behave has a responsible adult.

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Specializes in ED, psych.

No, I'm sorry -- I'm failing to see the humor as well.

Sim labs are critical parts of the learning process, and they are time well spent. Look at it from your instructor's point of view -- are you guys going to be a giggly bunch going into a patient's room? Because that's what is so glorious about Sim lab: it's so you practice skills in the safety of a controlled environment so that you're more prepared when you enter a wayyyy less controlled environment. You'll be happy to have these experiences ... but you wasted it.

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Specializes in nursing education.

I love when students know more than the instructors do about professional behavior and how to handle situations and students (especially ones who have never worked in a hospital). Makes our jobs so much easier! Then we have more time to hang with other professors!

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Not everyone is meant to be a professor.

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