I Hate My Program/instructors!

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Specializes in Pysch Nursing, LTC, and Home Health.

What to do when you REALLY had like 3 of your instructors and can't stand the ENTIRE program because of politics? Is it time to leave at this point? Just wondering...

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Specializes in Almost everywhere.

Whoa!!!!

Care to elaborate a little? Sounds pretty bad if you are ready to bug out! :confused:

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Specializes in Cardiac.
What to do when you REALLY had like 3 of your instructors and can't stand the ENTIRE program because of politics? Is it time to leave at this point? Just wondering...

Hopefully, these instructors will only be with you for one semester, right? As far as the politics, can you just get by them for the sake of graduation? You really don't want to start over-what if the next school is the same way??

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Specializes in Almost everywhere.
Hopefully, these instructors will only be with you for one semester, right? As far as the politics, can you just get by them for the sake of graduation? You really don't want to start over-what if the next school is the same way??

:yeahthat:

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Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.

How do you feel about nursing itself and the subject matter of the courses you are taking? A lot of us like nursing, but hated nursing school.

If you really hate the patient interaction and/or have no interest in the subject matter you are studying, then yes, you should be reconsidering your career choice. However, if it is just that you don't like some of your teachers ... well ... that's only a temporary problem. Next semester, you will have other teachers.

Everywhere you go ... and whatever career you choose ... you will find some people and some things that you don't like. The challenge is to analyze the situation and figure out whether it is all of nursing that you don't like, or just those particular people. No one can answer that for you: that's one of those things you have to figure out for yourself.

Do you remember how you disliked certain people and/or things about junior high school? Well, that was a long time ago and you should have gotten over that by now. The same thing is true of the situation today. In 10 years, you will have gotten over the fact that you didn't like certain aspects of nursing school. Don't let your dislike of a few people determine your long-term career choice. Put it (and them) in perspective. However, if you really don't like nursing itself ... that's another story.

llg

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

You either quit or you bite the bullet, change your attitude and play the game for the sake of the goal. You decide.

You're probably not going to change three instructors or the politics.

Good luck.

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Specializes in Telemetry/Med Surg.

In each semester there have been instructors I don't especially care for. Especially these last two semesters, there's an instructor who I detest. But I just grin and bear it; also with the politics.

Good luck

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Don't burn bridges! Politics are everywhere in nursing and will always be a focus of disagreement. If you are certain you want to become a nurse don't let a few instructors take you away from YOUR goal. Try to understand where they are coming from too, someone above them may be the SOURCE of the "politics" and they too have a job to do and laws to abide by within the school! Keep in mind, you may need them for a refrence in the future. Good luck.

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

I don't understand why so many of you students feel obligated to get caught up in the politics of your programs. You're there to learn how to be a nurse--period. Can't you just concentrate on that? Throughout the 70+ years (hopefully!) that you will live you are going to run into people you won't like and businesses and programs you will participate in that won't be run in a way you like . Some of them you will HAVE to work and get along with. Some will involve relatives, patients, co-workers, and who knows who else. You can't walk away from your dream of being a nurse because you don't like the way the nursing program is run. You may not like the program you are in, but how can you possibly know it is any worse in some other nursing program? Honestly, the harder you work for your nursing degree, the more you will learn and appreciate it later. With all the long waiting lists and competition to get into nursing schools if you have the time to wait out another place in another nursing school, then go ahead, quit. Better yet, look for what is positive in the way your program is designed. Those positive attributes will have direct effect on you. Take your focus off what you feel is negative and concentrate on the positives and learning your nursing theory and skills. Let the argumentative, self-destructive people who can't control their behavior fight the school politics. It will only come back to bite them in the bum later. It's almost a sure bet.

32 years ago I came away from my orientation day of nursing school shocked after we were all told that there would be no formal lectures. We were going to be given objectives to achieve and we would have to learn the stuff on our own. You should have heard the complaints. Some of us dug in and knuckled down to figure out how to master this "new" method of learning. Others had to be literally lead around by the hand by the nursing instructors because they were just too stubborn to do it on their own--some ended up dropping out. Those of us who finished all passed our state board the first time around--the old 2 day written state boards. Out here in California the required score to pass was the highest in the nation, so our school did us well with their "new" method.

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What to do when you REALLY had like 3 of your instructors and can't stand the ENTIRE program because of politics? Is it time to leave at this point? Just wondering...

well, if you are like most of us beginning nursing students who have gone to school fullitme for 1-3 years prior to starting and were working our behinds off to get A's and earn that acceptance letter, you will think long and hard about doing anything to lose that precious seat in your nursing class. No school, student, program or teacher is perfect, but unless TRULY unethical things are going on in your program, or you are risking your health by staying there I would "put up and shut up" so to speak (not that i am not meaning that you need to literally*shut* up, just saying i would lay low ). If you want that degree and a chance to sit for the boards don't let personality conflicts rob you of your future. Good Luck in school!

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

I've hated virtually every moment of nursing school since day one. I'm only a few weeks from graduation and I still fantasize about quitting. I say hang in there, keep your head down, and avoid the political crap. No pain no gain. (Aren't I just Miss Merry Sunshine?)

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Just remember that these instructors will not follow you after graduation, they will not be working with you. I strongly disliked several of my instructors, but hang in there and get your degree, then thumb your nose at them as you walk away!

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