Published Feb 11, 2009
NewTexasRN
331 Posts
First, let me say that something is happening to me this semester and I don't know what it is. I'm in my 4th and final semester and it's just not going well for me at all. I'm having a really hard time in clinical. In the second semester I was so much more confident, but now my mind is just blank! Basically my clinical instructor expects a lot from her students! She's a tough instructor to begin with. My issue is she has to keep telling me the same things over and over again step by step. Usually I get it by the second time around and it's just not sticking. My clinical instructor basically threatened to fail me. I've NEVER had that happen to me before. I've always been so solid clinically. I really don't know what to do about it. She said that she wants me to have more confidence in myself and she expected a lot more from me. I'm disappointed in myself, but I feel that there is NOTHING I can do to change that. It's so disappointing to get this far and all of a sudden you're being told that if you don't get right by next week you're out of the program. Did anyone have a similar experience?
Thanks