I didn't know this could happen!

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Has anyone heard of failing clinical because you were too slow to pass meds? My friend said her instructor sent her home for the day, because she took too long to pass meds, but that was her first day! She got a zero for that whole day, and that really is going to mess her grade up, I told her to go talk to the teacher to see what she may could do to pass the clinical.

I will give her you all's suggestions. I think that was really sick of the instructor to give her a zero for the whole day, and it's out of a big number of points too, not just one hundred. I know you should pass meds on time, but she was just slow on checking her 5 rights, and things. The instructor said she should be going a lot faster when pulling the meds from the medication room. I personally didn't see the need for a zero to be given for something like that, but her instructor said in the real world of nursing you are going to have to be able to pull your meds quickly and check them quickly!

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Specializes in SNU/SNF/MedSurg, SPCU Ortho/Neuro/Spine.

common its her first day, give her a break, why women got to be like that sometimes!!!

nurses eat their young!!!

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When I attended an LPN program and a different school for an RN program I saw many classmates be failed out by clinical instructors. 1 because the instructor felt the student was too slow at a given task.

At my LPN school there was one instructor that all students harbored disagreements as to how this instructor did things. One student went to the director with her concerns. This was a student who had been commended for being the only person in the very busy lobby of the hospital to recognize an older woman in distress and the student was instrumental in saving the womans life. However once the student went to the director with her concerns about the instructor the they soon found a reason to dismiss the student from the program. Sometimes it seems for whatever reason instructors seem to single out a student or two and ride them harder than the rest of the students.

One of my other instructors at my LPN school was very sympathetic and suggested we stay out of the other instructors way as much as possible.

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