4 weeks ago, I missed a day of clinical. At my school, this is a 'critical incident' and requires a writeup and a meeting with a director. I knew it was coming, but because of snow and midterms, it got pushed off repeatedly.
Imagine my surprise when I am called in and there is not one, but two critical incident forms. The second one is in regards to "misuse of technology".
Let me explain some - I was a student advocate. Our graduation recently was changed to an event 14 weeks after our actual graduation, and it is 2 hours away and with 150 students that are not from our campus. People were livid, we would already be moving on to our BSNs or employed for 3 months by the time we got to "graduate", and now we had to graduate with strangers too?
I was bombarded by emails over this and so sent out an email to everyone begging them to direct their emails towards the administrators, instead of relying solely on a couple advocates to get it heard. When 60 people are upset, they need to know it is not a minor issue.
Well apparently - this is 'inflammatory' and 'inciting a riot'. So I have two critical incidents now, which is technically enough to expel me, although I am being allowed to stay in the program for now with the warning that one more mistake would remove me. I am only 17 weeks from completion.
What have I learned? To not stick my neck out for anyone else any more. I am no longer an advocate, and I will not be giving advice or hearing problems any further. I will stick to myself, focus on my work, and focus solely on getting to graduation without raising any flags. I am not a trouble maker - I am a 4.0 student who is in love with what she does. The only reason I am not removed so far is because I am a good student.
Worse, they pulled me out of class right before a test. So after I am shocked and in tears, I had to sit down and take a test 15 minutes late.
