Nursing Professors: Good or Evil?

[WalterWho]

Hello Everyone!

So I thought It might be funny and uplifting at the same time to hear from some of my fellow nursing students about their professors. Are they awesome? Do they make your blood curdle? Describe the best and the worst and maybe we can all relate!

[mindofmidwifery, ADN]

No way on God's green earth would I even anonymously post anything about my professors until I graduated! (Two semesters left). I'm an "err on the side of caution" person though. My luck, it would be all over social media, traced back to me, end up in the local paper, and a police chase would ensue somewhere along the way.

Not officially in the nursing program yet, but this comment made my day

[dt70]

Too bad there's not a website to rate your students on....

The Office of the Registrar has those ratings.

[Dane Meyer]

Its been 14 years since I earned my BSN. I experienced both the best and the worst of professors in my schooling. Their attitudes and means of instruction varied from "survival of the fittest-if you can't learn you don't need to be here" to "let me help you learn what you don't know and improve on what you do". However, all of the clinical instructors had real life, working experience in their course fields.

My worst experience? Having an instructor take me aside and say: "you don't belong here, you're a man, you're too old, you are taking the place of a someone whom could do some good" and she busted my chops the entire semester and I flunked her course.

My best experience? Having an instructor for OB/GYN whom encouraged my inquiries, supported my being clinically included in what is typically a female-dominated nursing element and ensuring that I received quality knowledge. (thanks, Kathy!). Dane Meyer, RN,BSN.

[Vana21, ADN, BSN, RN]

Mine have been plesent so far. One was a little intimidating but she wasn't rude or aggressive by any means.