Miserable

[szccdw]

I am here to vent for the moment. I am currently in an ADN program and it sucks. We are in our second semester and have done nothing yet but give bed baths. Our program is sooooooooooo academic and not application. We read, read, and read some more but never do any of the things we read about. Several of us students have gone through the chain of command at our school to tell them we are not happy and everyone keeps telling us the same thing. "You're just under a lot of stress right now and you just need to breath". BULL!!! Do you want to know how we learned about VS. We were told to read about it in our book and then do it the next day at clinicals with out patients. We looked like fools in front of their families. We have an exam this week in MSB on 15 chapters,each of which is about 90 pages per chapter and we're told that we better have it down by the exam on Thursday. Mind you we covered them in summary within 5 classes and had to learn everything thing else on our own time. I am so angry that I've wasted 5 scholarships with this program. It WAS an excellent program at one time. This past August when we started the old dept chair retired and we got a new one and about 4 other new staff members and no one seems to know what the h%$# they are doing. The end result is that we are not learning anything. Myself along with a majority of my student body have applied as transfer students at another local college and they are willing to accept us into their LPN program right away but we'd have to wait a year to get into their ADN program. I am going to go ahead and do the LPN route and just go back at a later time and get my BSN at the local university. It angers me when we as the students are suppossed to take constructive criticism from the instructors but they don't want to listen to us. OK that felt good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nursbee04]

Don't you take a skills class? Where you practice your skills on a mannequin in a lab setting? We had to pass our skills before we could start clinicals. I'm ADN second semester and we've started IV's, done foleys, NG's, passed meds, done sterile drsg changes, you can pretty much name it.

You all are STILL giving bed baths? I'd go crazy. There must be something that you can do about this. Isn't it dangerous for this school to let you all go to clinicals w/o evaluating your skills? Do they evaluate your skills at all? I take it they don't from what you said about taking VS.

[szccdw]

No they do not evaluate our skills. We do have a lab but we don't do any practicing in it. We go to lab and watch videos about things such as how to read an EKG, or how to properly position a patient.

[sanakruz, ADN]

Well that's just very stinky!

[Dublin37]

Wow, what a drag! You hear the experienced nurses sometimes complaining on other boards about some new nurses coming in with practically NO practical skills. I thought it was mostly the RN/BSN combo programs. Can you change schools? Heather

[szccdw]

I am currently in the progress of looking into other schools. I have applied at 2 others in my area and should hear something about transferring in to their programs by June. I am so upset because this is really delaying me from relocating now and I am soooo ready to move.

[Disablednurse]

When I was in ADN school, we didn't have to worry about having clinicals. We had those and were able to do everything we were learning. Our problem was trying to learn with the instructors changing the rules every week or twice a week. We never knew from one day to the next whether we were following the correct set of rules or not. However, our main problem was the teachers fighting and arguing like a set of children. They would go to lunch together and tell one teacher that they were going at one time, then slip out and go earlier so she could not go and all kinds of stuff like that. We got more than an education in nursing.