I am so flippen mad!!!!!!!!

[student-with-no-life]

ok well just found this out tonight at clinical. We got our grades last week (well our grades before our final this week), one of the students was told "your done" they got a unsatisfactory in clinical (med errors) and if you get a "U" in clinical you fail the program.

Now this is where it gets good. This person has been on probation since 2nd semester - now they fail clinical - BUT they are going to let them pass IF they do a paper. The reason why is the school does not want a law suit. UN FREAKIN BELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!

Guess the school is in a law suit now for getting rid of one student (student is playing the race card) and they don't want anybody else mad!!!!

Im just so mad - I work hard - and now I see somebody else slide thru - AAAAARRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!:angryfire Im sorry I just had to vent!!!!!!

I have 24 days left and then Im outta of there :w00t:

[ShayRN]

I think everyone here has been very, very hard on student with no life. She came to vent her frustration and has been repeatly attacked. If all she says is true and this student is allowed to pass then we ALL suffer. If what she says if false or just a misunderstanding on her part, she is still frustrated at the situation as she sees it. Some of you have went straight into verbal attack mode without checking your feelings. I very much believe that this is plausible. AND if you don't think it is a big deal let me share a situation with you that happened at my hospital years ago.

38 year old mother of 3 was in with some problems that required Lovenox. A nurse that worked 12's had her for 3 days and marked that she was giving it and had indeed been pulling it from the pyxis. The next day she was off a new nurse came on and went to give the Lovenox. She told the patient, I have the shot that goes into your belly. The woman had NO idea what she was talking about. The nurse went and got the med sheet and showed her sign documentation that she had indeed been getting this over the last 3 days. Lady was insistant that she had not gotten any shots in her stomach. Guess what? She was right. There were no marks on her abdomen. Anyone who as given Lovenox can immediately identify with this....it had NOT been given.

So, what I understand from you all is that this new nurse should not have wasted her energy being upset about someone trying to skate through and just worry about learning the ropes, right? She did not, she reported the veteran nurse and that woman lost her job and gave up her license for this state. Although, she practices in the adjoining state, I hear. BTW, the new nurse? Now has her Master's degree and is a part-time teacher at her old school. I just hope she maintains the integrity she had in the beginning and doesn't let people like this pass because of the pressures of TPTB.

To the OP, be angry, vent and ignore the nastiness of some of these replys. THAT, unfortunately, is real life and what you will have to deal with as a nurse sometimes.

[beachbum3]

let me share a situation with you that happened at my hospital years ago.

38 year old mother of 3 was in with some problems that required Lovenox. A nurse that worked 12's had her for 3 days and marked that she was giving it and had indeed been pulling it from the pyxis. The next day she was off a new nurse came on and went to give the Lovenox. She told the patient, I have the shot that goes into your belly. The woman had NO idea what she was talking about. The nurse went and got the med sheet and showed her sign documentation that she had indeed been getting this over the last 3 days. Lady was insistant that she had not gotten any shots in her stomach. Guess what? She was right. There were no marks on her abdomen. Anyone who as given Lovenox can immediately identify with this....it had NOT been given.

So, what I understand from you all is that this new nurse should not have wasted her energy being upset about someone trying to skate through and just worry about learning the ropes, right?

I don't think that was what anyone was saying at all. What you described is a completely different scenario. In your scenario the new nurse was actually a nurse, witnessed unsafe practice, and reported it, as she should have. If student with no life saw what she says then, of course, she should have reported it, as she did. Now its none of her business. Same as the nurse reported it, then let administration do their job and handle it as they saw fit.

[WeimaranerluvinRN, ADN, RN]

I agree that this is a bunch of bull****, but hopefully they do not pass their state boards and if they do perhaps they will be thinned out in the workplace for mistakes and bad job performace.

[student-with-no-life]

Thanks to those who spoke kind words and encouraged me - those that just spoke their mind fine, great more power to you - but just keep in mind thats what I did also.

Im done with this thread - hope to move on from here to better topics - as far as school goes I have 16 days left then I can say good-bye and hope I never cross paths with most of them ever again

[junebug50]

I agree with you to an extent. However, this person will have to answer for their own actions, sooner or later this will catch up with them. Hopefully it won't be at a patients expense and no one will be harmed by this students actions.

I had something similar happen in my nursing class. One didn't pass her boards and the other had discipline actions against her and couldn't get her lincense.