Yesterday I left a patients bed up to go grab some wipes. My instructor walked in and saw that the bed was in the high position while I was gone. This was what got me kicked out of nursing school.
I always thought that school was a place to learn, and to grow. To make mistakes.
There were other incidences like putting nystatin cream on a patient after report, leaving colace at the bedside because I needed a liquid preparation because my patient wouldn't swallow (d/t confusion), for answering a patients friends question (knowing the patient knew him for 20+ years, but since I did not directly ask permission it was violating hippa, and lastly, for the whole bed incident.
I don't want to blame my clinical instructor for my failure. But I just wish I didn't make those mistakes.
I believe it is a violation of nursing care to pinpoint and humiliate student nurses in front of peers. I believe it is a violation of nursing care to blow students off and think everything they say is wrong.
Can you point to the part of your state's nurse practice act that states these are violations of the nurse practice act and thus a "violation of nursing care"?
I'm doubting it. As the nurse practice act is there to protect PATIENTS. Not nursing students.
You are going to stick up for an alcoholic just because she is an established RN.
She could make a few med errors, drop a couple patients. Oh it's okay, she's a recovering alcoholic. WHAT??
Let's bust out the Ativan on the job.
Yet she hasn't. So I don't see your point...she's obviously been a RN for a decent amount of time and so what if she drinks some? What if she's in recovery? Who cares. It's not really your business. There's been no mention of any type of negligence on her part so I don't exactly know where you're getting all this "omg she sucks" thing. She obviously doesn't suck because if she was impaired, you probably would have picked it up BEFORE you got kicked out. Just sayin'.
You're lucky you weren't kicked out for the HIPAA violation alone. At all the nursing schools around here (five to seven, I think), a HIPAA violation is an automatic expulsion. No ifs, ands, or buts. The high bed was just the cherry on the whipped cream.
I just found out through the grapevine that my CI is a raging alcoholic. And I have evidence to prove this. I also have a laywer boyfriend and he happens to know the dean of the college. Not saying that I'm going to go through with anything but I could definitely make a dent in her reputation.
I just found out through the grapevine that one of that CI's particular former students is a spoiled brat with an attorney for a boyfriend. He's planning to help that student by threatening to report someone on trumped charges to the Board of Nursing without a good faith basis to be doing so. So I'm thinking I should report him to the state bar for violating the legal code of ethics. I'm not saying I'm going to go through with anything, but I could definitely make a dent in his reputation.
Wow, OP, you went from being a bit angry to being flat out flippin nuts! Take a deep breath and really think about what your spewing here. The more you write, the more grateful I am to the instructor that thought it best to stop you before you actually passed the boards and landed a job with the huge amount of resonsibility we have. I'd hate to see you in action with coworkers you feel wronged you. Not sure waitressing would be good for you either......
Maybe the reason you were kicked out is because in real life, just as here, you didn't see the significance of your errors or take any responsibility for them. Even if your CI was drunk to the point of unconsciousness and high on seventeen illegal drugs she didn't make those errors. You did.
A colleague and I had a final year student thrown out of her degree for leaving a bed in the high position. WIth the rails down. After being told on three separate occasions within twenty minutes that she was a priority, not the ambulant guy down the corridor that the student had some burning desire to take linen to.
Oh, and the patient had CJD, was found on the edge of the mattress, and didn't hit the floor because the RN caught her as she fell.
The fndamentals form the basis for nursing care. If you can't get them right and you don't have the concept that thinking's a fundamental element of providing care, nursing's just not for you. Providing you pass on anaphylactic allergy information to the chef, you can't kill anyone as a waitress.
You hypotheticals are VERY close to what can happen. People come in with so many different diagnoses aside from the admission dx.
rocketsurgeon- don't pursue nursing. At least for now. Take some time. You don't have the perspective of a nurse- you aren't the one deserving of being taken care of. Nursing doesn't have time to "raise you".... supposed to get to nursing school a bit further along in the developmental stages- that is not supposed to sound mean; if anything it helps explain a BIT of your posts. Consider seeing a counselor. And don't do ANYTHING about anybody but YOU until you work through how you feel about all of this. Look at mattrn2013's examples of what can happen. They are very real possibilities- you were extremely lucky to just get kicked out of nursing school- it could have resulted in lawsuits (and I'm not one to jump on the lawsuit bandwagon). The instructor is there to teach- and PROTECT the patients. YOUR examples of YOUR behavior are what is getting all of these replies.
If 100 people say that grass is green, and you say it's purple- who do you think that the majority of people are going to find as having the more likely correct answer?????
Also, things might be different in the US but here the primary role of the Nurses' Board is to protect the public - it says that right on the top of the page. So you'd not get much of a hearing in Australia.
Also, things might be different in the US but here the primary role of the Nurses' Board is to protect the public - it says that right on the top of the page. So you'd not get much of a hearing in Australia.
If anyone believe that nursing care only applies to patients, I wouldn't like to know how they treat everyone else.
Nursing care applies only *from* a nurse, *to* a patient. Nurses aren't saints called to a special mission of "saving the world one person at a time" through their exemplary models of love, caring, and respect.
I treat my patients as their nurse should. To everybody else, I offer up a mixture of the 'golden rule' and 'what goes around, comes around.'
Sometimes, a good, old-fashioned @$$ chewing is precisely what the situation calls for... especially if the message seems to not be sinking in.
I also think that is very immature and foul. Would you want an alcoholic teaching you? Or working for your college? Or working with you??
And actually I found out from a reputable source. Like I said, I am probably not going to do anything about this. But what would you do?
I would do nothing but focus on myself and try to figure out how I can move forward from this experience. Listening to the grapevine is not going to foster my growth.
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I think that is an excellent idea because to be honest, at this point, you sound a bit unhinged.