Just when I thought I was going to be prepared for my exam this week on hematology and oncology. On Monday AFTERNOON, our instructor just happened to mention (via e-mail) that she "forgot" to add a 60-page chapter on Breast Cancer and added 26 NEW lab values that we had to know for our exam today.
Then when we had lecture on Tuesday...she never bothered to cover the the Chapter on Breast Cancer nor another chapter we had on Shock at all.
I had clinicals all day on Wednesday and a night class on Wednesday night...so instead of reviewing my material like I had planned...I had to cover NEW material for an exam whose reading assignments and objectives have been in our Syllabus since August.
That proved to be a devastating error on her part as I am now mathematically too far behind to pass unless I get a perfect score on each test from here on out, and that is impossible to do.
I sent my children to my sister's house for tonight. I just can't deal with anything more right now. I have no idea of what I am going to do and there is no way I want to re-apply to this nursing program. These are the worst instructors I have ever had in my life.
Hopeful2009... CONGRATULATIONS !!! Maybe one day YOU will become a director of some nursing school... and thank you for sharing... i have learned many things from this posting... it took a lot of guts to post... i failed some tests during the second semester (not anything different than the rest of the class or even the assistant to the class president), but i failed three tests, which brought me an F, and therefore an elimination. Too many other things took me away from studying (wrong personal choices in life) instead of focusing on passing the remaining pre-reqs, and i am now out, trying to get back in. I passed the pharmaco class taken at a CC but i failed nursing... go figure... same story... some instructors were GREAT clinical instructors but no comparison to CIRQUE DU SOLEIL when teaching in class, in fact it was plain ridiculous circus that distracted us from achieving our goal... i personally believe i got a very good score on the NLN test (123 out of 150) but my GPA is busted. I am trying to bring it up and hopefully some program will accept me again (not the one i attended).
--beth66335--- i wish i was in your area, but for now i have to deal with these schools... soon as i graduate, though i really wish to move out of NYC, running, yelling away from this madness...
Thank you all for sharing your thoughts and expertise and knowledge...
Does anyone know for how long the results from the NLN test is accepted for in admissions to NYC nursing schools?
I'm extremely proud of you for standing up for yourself. Not only did you help yourself, you help other students that will come behind you as well! My prayers are with you as you continue on with this semester and the ones to come.
--beth66335--- i wish i was in your area, but for now i have to deal with these schools... soon as i graduate, though i really wish to move out of NYC, running, yelling away from this madness...
Well it isn't all perfect where I am...as I posted in a couple of other threads I'm out of school right now due to failure to pass the 3rd semester math comp test. I have test anxiety on these particular tests and b/c I didn't have it documented beforehand (not that anyone told me too, mind you) I couldn't sway the Dean my way, you see mine is the only school in the area (there are 5 nursing schools where I live) that only allows 1 chance per semester to pass the math test, but what's done is done and I will be readmitted in Aug '09 and finish up.This is just a bump in the road, fortunately it looks like it was the same for Hopeful! Good luck for the rest of school, Hopeful...and good job!
I'm so happy for you. I was so sad when I read that you dropped out.
Only a few more quarters and you'll be finished.
I hope so too. BTW, I did pass the last exam that I didn't bother to sit around and wait for it to be graded...the one I swore I failed...but I passed at bare minimum, so I didn't get to "make up" any points.
I'm still 10 down
On this exam, we had 50 questions, 40 was passing, I got a 40 and the average for the class was a 36.
Our class right now, has 38 students, and less than 10 are 'at passing', but no one is blowing the class away. We even have an LPN that has a photographic memory in our class, and she said even she is struggling and said, "I don't even know at this point if I can pull out a B this semester". She has so far been the top student, rarely missing a question.
The Dean and I have been e-mailing each other quite often and I about fell out of my chair when she e-mailed me this morning and said that "she expected things to improve" from here on, and she was going to use many of the points that I made in a faculty meeting that they had upcoming very soon. She said if at any point if I needed to contact her to even go over a test (b/c we were actually given incorrect rationales on our 2nd exam...and she wasn't happy about that either).
Now HERE is what floored me, she said, "As you know, things sometimes get overheard and if at any point you don't feel like you are being treated fairly in clinicals or in class you let me know."
Even though I study as hard as I can now...this has really given me a sense of renewed commitment that I must have been right or else she wouldn't be trying so hard to help me. At least I know I'm not crazy.
I'm just going to keep plugging away and see what happens. The only reason I am continuing is because none of my credits are transferrable and there was no way I was going to start over somewhere else.
I hope now you see that us nursing students have to stick together. When there is a serious problem with the instructor, you have every right to take action, and sometimes our emotions get the best of us.
Oh, keep in mind that I am the ONLY one that is sticking my neck out like this. So many other students in my class are having the same problems I am, but they are just willing to sit back and let it ride and let someone else do the complaining, but yet they want the benefits that come if someone else takes the heat.
There are some advantages to being an older student...the fact that you don't care to stick your neck out and stand up for yourself b/c I don't have a rat's behind if the instructors at my school get mad or not...in fact, I even praised one of my instructors b/c she really seems to be trying to help us, and I made sure the dean knew that.
Some people are like that, unfortunately. It's disgusting.
Oh, keep in mind that I am the ONLY one that is sticking my neck out like this. So many other students in my class are having the same problems I am, but they are just willing to sit back and let it ride and let someone else do the complaining, but yet they want the benefits that come if someone else takes the heat.
Oh, keep in mind that I am the ONLY one that is sticking my neck out like this. So many other students in my class are having the same problems I am, but they are just willing to sit back and let it ride and let someone else do the complaining, but yet they want the benefits that come if someone else takes the heat.
There are some advantages to being an older student...the fact that you don't care to stick your neck out and stand up for yourself b/c I don't have a rat's behind if the instructors at my school get mad or not...in fact, I even praised one of my instructors b/c she really seems to be trying to help us, and I made sure the dean knew that.
At my school the previous class took up an issue with the school by going to an attorney. They won their battle. The same issue came up with my class. Several of the students thought that an attorney intervention would help again. They approached me to be the spokesperson and get the attorney. I told them no. Amazing what some people will do as long as someone else is footing the expenses and the risk.
i wish i was in your area, but for now i have to deal with these schools... soon as i graduate, though i really wish to move out of NYC, running, yelling away from this madness...
DougBond
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Hopeful2009...
CONGRATULATIONS !!! Maybe one day YOU will become a director of some nursing school... and thank you for sharing... i have learned many things from this posting... it took a lot of guts to post... i failed some tests during the second semester (not anything different than the rest of the class or even the assistant to the class president), but i failed three tests, which brought me an F, and therefore an elimination. Too many other things took me away from studying (wrong personal choices in life) instead of focusing on passing the remaining pre-reqs, and i am now out, trying to get back in. I passed the pharmaco class taken at a CC but i failed nursing... go figure... same story... some instructors were GREAT clinical instructors but no comparison to CIRQUE DU SOLEIL when teaching in class, in fact it was plain ridiculous circus that distracted us from achieving our goal... i personally believe i got a very good score on the NLN test (123 out of 150) but my GPA is busted. I am trying to bring it up and hopefully some program will accept me again (not the one i attended).
--beth66335---
i wish i was in your area, but for now i have to deal with these schools... soon as i graduate, though i really wish to move out of NYC, running, yelling away from this madness...
Thank you all for sharing your thoughts and expertise and knowledge...
Does anyone know for how long the results from the NLN test is accepted for in admissions to NYC nursing schools?
Doug