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Does beauty matters between instructors and students? I personally don't care what the person looks like as long as this instructor teaches me the right things. I just like it that I'm pretty because it works on the clients, esp. male clients to get what I want to be done. They seem to cooperate better. Hey, I understand. After all, we belong to mammalians. ?

Thank you. I really do appreciate your input. It's really frustrating that I'm dealing with a person I respected.

I apologize. I just summarized everything. No, I'm not upset that I wasn't allowed to pass medications. I just realized I didn't add any information about the CI's disappointment in me. I didn't ask for my CI that day because he or she was tied with another student otherwise I would've seen him or her at the triage. He or she should be at the triage when he or she was available. I wasn't allowed to do procedures on the critical pts but shadowing or assisting the RN. I didn't think of him/her as incompetent CI because I've been told that the nursing discipline is broad. He or she is still learning too. "You want to complain about your CI to the school administration for what? The only thing you talk about is performing skills without her." Bullying students is never acceptable. Being educators don't give them the privileges and rights to be hostile or abuse others. The ANA outlines his/her responsibility and duty as a CI unless this person is experimenting with nurse students which is I'm not aware of. I don't expect compliments from him/her but be a good role model for future good nurses. The procedures that I didn't need him/her for such as passing water to family members or visitors, getting nutrition, water, juice, and blanket. I wouldn't solicit an opinion if I wanted to make a report to the admin. I should've done that over a month ago. It won't be me going to report him/her. If he/she loses a job, it's because someone didn't tolerate him/her. My solution: I will keep going and don't care what he or she does or say.

Did you reply with emotion or logic? The instructor has been hostile to students and some nurses. I'm minding my own business and focus on me unless I'm subpoena to witness. The CI needs help or support. I don't care I'm not allowed to pass medication until I pass NCLEX. I passed medications and hung IVs several times with the CI presence. This person knows that I'm one of his or her good students. I'm just saying that I didn't wrong this CI and still trying to get my attention. My logical brain I should put where the person belongs to. My emotion says, "Cut your CI some slacks. Show some humility and compassion." Mind you, this person is intelligent. I can see my CI is going through a difficult time and is trying to fake it and be there. Don't think that I'm inconsiderate and cruel. Don't think that he or she is bad in my eyes. This person, I've seen his or her best days. I'm asking how to better assist him or her not to make things bad since you're all more experience in nursing. In my experience, he or she won't get away for poor behavior.

In the theory class, we were told not to pass without the presence of our clinical instructor (CI). I adhere and comply to this nursing school policy. I was told by another nurse that s/he wanted the other group because the CI permitted them to pass medications without his/her gawking around. I don't remember having patients and nurses to complain about me. For your side note, I'm not an envious or jealous person. I just want to understand this person better. Sometimes I speculate that I'm being tested. I hate to think that I have to manage him/her in my own world. I genuinely respect this person even though he or she is being inconsistent and making me wonder about this person's integrity and work ethics on some days. I have demonstrated a few skills safely and effectively in front of another floor RNs. They even asked me to assist them to pass medications after a few times they witnessed my skills in which I declined. I reiterated that without my CI, my cohort and I weren't allowed to do it. I have seen some students who weren't that good (not wearing gloves while flushing locks/changing IV tubing and drugs. Right now, his/her claws are on me. I don't like it that he/she is that strange. He or she seems to challenge me for being kind and respectful and well-liked. The bomb is that this CI has records. I don't want to take her to her boss. I'm here contemplating how I deal with this problem without making him/her feel threatened. I just want to make peace, be civil, and move on and keep the drama behind and finish nursing school. S/he does irritate me ?because I've never learned something good about this CI, but him/her being there and humiliated me privately then publicly because I paid him or her no attention. The floor nurses are the ones educating and training me the procedures and have me do them. I need some advice from you about how to handle my CI?

This is an old thread, but I will share my experiences. I'm a little OCD with my calculation even though I'm competent in mathematics beyond the conversion level and comfortable to tutor at college algebra level. However, I have colleagues who struggle to figure out which one is the numerator and in the denominator and etc related to the drips and dosage. I know that I can make mistakes so I do ALWAYS double-check my calculation. My other professors certainly aware that I'm good at calculation, but they have witnessed that I still double-check to lessen or prevent an error dosage calculation. Fast forward, my CI has been giving me more assignments than any other student. No floor nurses complain about me, but for some reason, my CI spends more time on me than other students. Lol. Whatever she is trying to convey to me, I'll just do the right things.

My colleague was an American RN who was vexed with the process in CA. She tried to get her RN transfer from another state. She was given a temporary license with limitation and taking a few classes in order to get her RN transferred to CA then the BON of CA decided that she didn't need one of her courses. She finished that said course anyway in case the BON of CA changes its mind, lol, that it wasn't necessary to get RN transferred. Try Nevada or other states. Some just have the least bureaucrats.

Thank you for the feedback. I've been happier.

You made it that far. Don't focus on something that you dislike or hate.

First of all, how is the entire class is doing? Is it consistent with your grades? If the questions weren't from the chapters he or she tested, then take the appropriate action by addressing these. If he doesn't reconsider it, then talk to the other faculty member that can address your concern. Can't imagine spending my quality time reading chapters after chapters then the exam is not based on these.

How do I deal with my colleagues who complain about everything? Don't get me wrong, I can handle clients who complain; however, I'm probably expecting too much from my peers that they should be lesser stressors to deal with. Anyway, two of them complain about our clinical site's floor nurses and our clinical/theory instructors. I feel like an HR. I kept telling them to address their concerns with our instructors. For example, one of them asked me why I had more nursing skills done. But now, I feel like I'm probably making enemies silently because they witnessed it that (our colleagues and) I have no problem with the floor nurses I was assigned to. I let my colleague know that day how I got my things done. They all think that I'm a meek person. I know when to strike and complain.