Having trouble with clinical instructor?

[tbjockny]

Feeling a bit unfairly graded by my new clinical instructor. First, My ORIGINAL clinical instructor had a situation that caused her to leave through the middle of the semester. I was given to a second instructor for the first half of the semester, and now a third instructor for this 2nd half of the semester.

This professor seems very nice, and I have not had an issue with her during campus lab practice days. I put in about 20 hours worth of clinical practice in about 2 weeks, more than most were about to put in..as well as practiced my skills at home.

During my return demo I felt very rushed.

For the 3 drugs I looked up and had to answer 20 questions on, I would give the correct answer yet she couldn't hear very well, and thought I gave her the wrong answer. Didn't want to hear that I gave the right answer the first time around. I would take a second to think about what she was asking me and goto answer but she would cut me off and give me the answer as if I had answered it wrong.

For my skills, I had to prime an IV, and set the drip rate. She inserted the port into the mannequin IV, which I had suggested wouldn't let my drip chamber start. Because that happened, she didn't want to wait for me to set up drip rate after I unattached the port and went to set my drip rate. She just marked me as knowing the skill.

She kept rushing me through my CVC dressing, and through my ID injection. She just kept repeating " we don't have enough time just put your gloves on" or "just inject it". I would try to explain to her what I was doing and as I was doing it, but she just kept cutting me off and telling me to just do the skill.

I didn't go over my allotted time for return demo. During my midterm evaluation she wrote that "i needed to spend more time in the skills lab". I'm just very frustrated. I have 3 days of hospital clinical with her, and I don't feel like she will be very supportive.

On top of that, There was a mess up with the faculty on when I needed to get an IV pump certification, and because they could not do it on the day I signed up for, I had to schedule the certification during my lunch break for a campus lab day.

After the certification, I went to hand her my certificate but she was in the middle of midterm evaluations. So, I already needed to make a copy of it. I went ahead to the library, made a copy, grabbed a bit of lunch, and came back to the lab. She proceeded to yell at me in front of everyone in the lab, telling me that "WHY would you leave when you know I've been waiting for that all morning? You need to start thinking properly."

She told me that she needed to have it BY 3pm. She did NOT tell me that she was waiting for me to hand it to her after my certification was done. The others in my group told me that she had said to goto lunch and come back. I was gone from 11:30-12:30, and she had just completed evaluations.

I don't see where I was wrong in that scenario. It was not my fault that the faculty allowed me and 5 other people to sign up for a time slot for that certification that was not available, because the only person that was there to teach it realized she had to proctor an ortho neuro exam. She tried to text me an hour a half before my time, while I was at work. I was NOT available to come any earlier. I'm aggravated that I took time out of my lunch break to do this certification, and am basically penalized for it.