"Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach"
True statement?
Feeling frustrated after just starting my school semester again (MSN) and getting the bios of all of my instructors and finding out the hoops they are going to have me jump through this time around to complete my degree -- when it does not seem like they are experts themselves in the subject area they are teaching. At least, their bio doesn't match the subject area they are teaching.
Examples from my own past:
Had an advanced health assessment prof that was a midwife (CNM) and had spent her ENTIRE career in OB practice. We'd ask questions about adult/geriatric patients and she hadn't a clue, but she sure could rip us a new one if we couldn't do a perfect cranial nerve exam in 5 minutes (of course, she had a reference when she was grading us).
Had a family health nursing instructor that was an ICU nurse his entire career. No public health/community/outpatient background at all.
Had multitudes of clinical instructors that had very limited hospital clinical experience to begin with (20 years as they had been in academia that entire time. I can't think of a single one that actually was a clinical expert in the clinical area they were teaching.
Plus so many of them are just so damnned mean. And rude. And condescending.
Doesn't there seem to be a bit of a double standard there? We (the students) need to be perfect, but they (the instructors) don't need to know much more than we do/would at the end of the course?