So, according to the clinical syllabus, our first care plan is due Oct 31st. (Next Friday...) However, in clinical last week, my instructor said that we CAN hand it in Oct 24th (Today) if we choose to. So I decided I had a lot of other things to do, so I'll hand it in on the due date.
Everyone else handed their careplan in today, because they "wanted to get it over with"...
I get home from clinical today, and have a voicemail on my phone from my instructor saying that she doesnt have my careplan and that if I dont hand it in, she'll have to fail me for the course.
SO I call her back and say the due date is Oct 31st, and everyone else handed it in early to get it out of the way. She is normally a nice woman who I have loved up until this point, but she had an attitude with me. Basically threatening to fail me if I dont email her my careplan tonight, or tomorrow AM at the latest. When I told her that on the SYLLABUS it says Oct 31st, she was like What paper is that?..... Uhh, the one you gave to us one the first day that has all the dates of when everything is due!!:angryfire
Strangely enough, she did not believe me. And said that she told everyone that it was due on Oct 24th, and that she repeated herself several times, and that I must not have been listening bc I didnt hand mine in. She didnt even think about the syllabus, apparently I was lying about it... according to her. I also told her that Oct 24th (according to the nonexistant syllabus) was when she was supposed to hand back Part 1 (5 priority nursing dx), which would help us DO part 2 (The careplan...) WHICH IS DUE OCT 31st. I never recieved my part 1 back, btw.... I could barely get my words out to her bc I was starting to choke up.
So I spent 4 hours (1.5 hours consisted of bawling my eyes out. The rest of the time I did the careplan..) And called up another clinical student and asked her WHEN the careplan was supposed to be due, and she said "Oct 31st, everyone just handed it in early"...
!!!!!! MY CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR DOES NOT BELIEVE ME, WILL NOT EVEN HEAR ME AND REQUIRED THAT I EMAIL IT TO HER TONIGHT BC ITS "LATE" WHEN IN ACTUALITY ITS FRIGGEN EARLY!!
I am beyond agitated right now. The syllabus is what ALL the nursing students follow, not created by her but created by the nursing department/professors. IMO, she has no say over when things/arent due... Thats what the syllabus is for. Even if in her mind she did change the due date (SHE DIDNT!!) is that even possible? What if she said "I fail you bc you didnt hand it on Oct 24th"--meanwhile, the due date is the 31st, what that be legit? Would I actually fail?
I cant wait to go to class, and talk to all the other students and hear them all say "Nope the due date was the 31st". I cant wait till next clinical day, when I show her the syllabus and hopefully have everyone else say "The careplan wasnt due until today"...
Im still going to talk to her again & let her know that I am appreciative, and that I dont want her to think I am incompetent or that I dont take this seriously. I absolutely wholeheartedly do.
I really wouldn't keep pressing the issue. It's going to cause you more harm than good. You may annoy your instructor further, and that's not a good idea. Move on, prove yourself with future assignments being handed in when she thinks they are due, and forget about this incident. It's really insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Your instructor isn't out to get you, and I think she's over this, so you should be too. At my college there is a syllabus that all instructors use, but they all have their own timeline for assignment due dates, and what they say goes. Due dates and assignments aren't even on the syllabus, just the course objectives.
I really wouldn't keep pressing the issue. It's going to cause you more harm than good. You may annoy your instructor further, and that's not a good idea. Move on, prove yourself with future assignments being handed in when she thinks they are due, and forget about this incident. It's really insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Your instructor isn't out to get you, and I think she's over this, so you should be too. At my college there is a syllabus that all instructors use, but they all have their own timeline for assignment due dates, and what they say goes. Due dates and assignments aren't even on the syllabus, just the course objectives.
Hm, Ive thought of that also. Perhaps its better just to not mention it then.....
I really wouldn't keep pressing the issue. It's going to cause you more harm than good. You may annoy your instructor further, and that's not a good idea. Move on, prove yourself with future assignments being handed in when she thinks they are due, and forget about this incident. It's really insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Your instructor isn't out to get you, and I think she's over this, so you should be too. At my college there is a syllabus that all instructors use, but they all have their own timeline for assignment due dates, and what they say goes. Due dates and assignments aren't even on the syllabus, just the course objectives.
I agree. Just keep saying to yourself "Let it go. Let it go..." In a month or so, the emotional sting will be lessened and you'll have moved on to almost having completed a successful semester of nursing school. It sounds to me like your professor was fine with the way things turned out, so leave it at that.
Hm, Ive thought of that also. Perhaps its better just to not mention it then.....
This is just one of those cases where you will win the battle but will probably lose the war.
If it's just inconvenient to turn it in early, then bite the bullet and turn it in.
On the other hand (and you can research my thread), I had a case that I had to appeal to the Dean because our teacher added a huge chapter to our already 200+ pages of material (that we only had two weeks to learn) less than 72 hours before our exam, and we had 10 1/2 hour clinicals that took up most of one of those days. The chapter didn't even appear on our syllabus at all.
THAT is an example of a battle that you pick because the end result was a huge number of students failed this particular test b/c instead of reviewing our material we had to learn NEW material.
However, if it didn't affect my grade, I could have cared less.
MY CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR DOES NOT BELIEVE ME, WILL NOT EVEN HEAR ME AND REQUIRED THAT I EMAIL IT TO HER TONIGHT BC ITS "LATE" WHEN IN ACTUALITY ITS FRIGGEN EARLY!!
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I really wouldn't keep pressing the issue. It's going to cause you more harm than good. You may annoy your instructor further, and that's not a good idea. Move on, prove yourself with future assignments being handed in when she thinks they are due, and forget about this incident. It's really insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Your instructor isn't out to get you, and I think she's over this, so you should be too. At my college there is a syllabus that all instructors use, but they all have their own timeline for assignment due dates, and what they say goes. Due dates and assignments aren't even on the syllabus, just the course objectives.