Nursing School Fail out

[Timothy Andrews]

First off I want to thank anyone and everyone who takes the time to respond to this thread. 

I was a senior in my nursing program and was suffering from some pretty bad harassment from an older nursing instructor. After the nursing instructor failed me out of clinicals, I reported her to the Assistant Dean for her conduct and not following the syllabus. The assistant dean told me that there was nothing she could do and that I should see the dean. I went ahead and followed my chain of command, and worked my way up the ladder, but the further I went, the more severe the harassment got. Eventually every single nursing instructor failed me out of clinicals, which was just incredibly devastating to me in my last semester, especially considering the fact that I was passing all the lecture courses. The instructors even went as far as to fail me out for things not stated in the syllabus or things that contradicted the student handbook we were given. I was literally the only nursing student that failed clinicals the entire year. 

With all of this said, I have enough evidence for a lawsuit, but I still want to become a nurse, as I have worked over 3 years for this and I am currently able to pass the NCLEX. I have been told that there are some nursing programs that will simply pencil whip the paperwork, so that I can go take my state boards. Has anyone else ever done this or have experience in this? 

[delrionurse]

On 6/3/2022 at 4:44 PM, Timothy Andrews said:

After a while of this treatment I started secretly recording conversations and gathering witnesses and evidence - which is why I have sufficient evidence of this harassment ready for court. 

As long as this is legal in your state, this is necessary. People won't be accountable until they are caught. No one deserves to be treated  poorly.

[Timothy Andrews]

11 hours ago, Nurse Beth said:

Channel your energy in a different direction, you are on a path of frustration.

I can agree with this. It's frustrating that after 3 years, thousands of dollars on school and tons of late nights, I have nothing to show for it. 

 

It's even worse when you come to a form like this, and local idiots immediately attack you. (Not saying you, just some of the other posts.) 

[Timothy Andrews]

2 minutes ago, faithjohn said:

As long as this is legal in your state, this is necessary. People won't be accountable until they are caught. No one deserves to be treated  poorly.

For sure. Louisiana has a "as long as one person consents rule" when it comes to recording, and the one recording can be the consenting person. 

 

Luckily I have emails, messages, witnesses, violations of syllabus and handbooks, as well as those recordings.

 

The world needs nurses right now, and its sad that so many students don't make it into the profession, only because of some old burnt out "teachers" that need to retire. 

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