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Thank you! It is so nice to hear from all of you. I'm amazed at the support. So sorry that I cannot reply to each of you individually, but I'm still working away on my papers and still have to study for a test. You have encouraged me tremendously. I appreciate all the prayers too...keep 'em coming :)

Hi to all my new friends:D, just a quick update because I have to write a six page essay tonight covering my clinicals today plus I have an exam tomorrow morning. Sleep isn't really necessary, is it?! Anyhow, I showed up bright and early and she didn't say a word about it. She just acted s if nothing happened. I was running around like a crazy woman all day trying to take care of my patients. It just seems like there are soooo many things to do in so little time. My charting was late so I'll be in trouble for that. My advisor still has not returned my phone call so I dont' really know what is happening other than she let me stay today. That might be a good sign, right? If I can just make it until June! Thanks again for all the support and advice. Gotta go start writing!

WOW! I never expected the support that I've received from all of you today. It really warms my heart and gives me the confidence to keep going. Thank you so much! I've thought about this all day and still can't believe that I got sent home for that. Some of my classmates called me and said that the day with her was terrible! She was fuming by the end of the day. They all have to write papers tonight about improving their clinical performance. Maybe it wasn't so bad that I got sent home! :wink2:

Thank you so much! I called my advisor right when I got home and left a message but I haven't heard anything. I was scheduled to go to clinicals again tomorrow with the same instructor but I'm not sure what to do. I guess I will just show up and see what happens.

That would be awesome if I was allowed to sit in on report but I'm not. I'm also well aware that I'm a "guest" and the staff needs the charts for patient care. Our instructors have told us that if the charts are not available, we do not have to sit around for hours waiting; get the information you can and go from there. Did I imply that I asked for special treatment because of my age, children and marital status? I don't think that I did. I've never asked for any kind of special consideration from my instructors. I've had to work a lot harder than some because of this, but my grades and clinicals have never suffered. I also understand that employer's don't take those things into consideration; in fact, it's not something I would need to disclose. You're right; it was my choice to enter school as a single mother. Since I had no former college education, and being a stay-at-home mommy for 20 years doesn't look too hot on a resume, I chose to pursue an education rather than working the rest of my life for minimum wage. I also thought I was setting a good example for my kids. Sometimes life doesn't turn out as planned, so you move on and make the best of it. That's what I'm trying to do.

Thank you for all the wonderful support and advice. It doesn't make any sense to me either. I did not put a patient in danger, I simply didn't see something in a chart. Most likely because being a nursing student makes me low man on the totem pole for access to the chart. If anyone else needs it, they take it. I get what I can out of it in bits and pieces. Why oh why are people that are so mean and obviously unhappy with life teaching us? Can it be that they love teaching so much? I doubt it. If I had any idea that this is what nursing school would have been like, I wouldn't have ever done it. I just wanted to learn about medicine, and more importantly, take care of people.... oh, and being able to support myself and my kids was a motivator too. I so appreciate all your responses. What a great network of support this site is. I'll keep you posted :)

Hello, I've only posted a couple times so I'm not sure if this is the proper place for this post. I'm sad, embarrassed, and frustrated because I was sent home from clincals this morning. I'm a second year student in an ADN program and today was my first day to care for 3 patients (all meds, care, etc). I prepped at the hospital for 2 hours last night, came home prepped until midnight and up at 5 a.m. to get to clinicals on time. In preconference I was not certain why my pt was receiving an antibiotic. She was admitted with SOB, but I saw nothing in the chart other than that. When I truthfully told my instructor that I wasn't sure about the antibiotic she replied that pt has pneumonia. Keep in mind that 8 other students are staring at me and I buckle under pressure. I replied that I honestly did not see that in her chart. Mind you, that when I was prepping the chart was taken from me several times by other staff members and someone even took the progress notes out of the chart. Also trying to prep on 2 others at the same time. After the 30 minutes of preconference I went to the floor to begin pt care. My instructor pulled me aside and said that she was sending me home and I needed to make an appointment with my advisor and the director of the nursing program. I sense that they are kicking me out. The environment is one of total fear, no encouragement, waiting for you to mess us and never pointing out the good. The fact that I'm a single mom of four and I worked my tail off for this doesn't count for a thing. My grades are always 3.5 and above, but I have to work very hard to do that. I'm in my 40s so the menopausal memory thing is doing a number on me. I'm in debt $15,000 in student loans and I really don't know if I'll make it:cry:. Missing this clinical will mean that I get an incomplete for the quarter which messes up my financial aid so now I have that to deal with. Honestly, I don't think I can take much more of this. I realize that I'm rambling, using no paragraphs, just hoping that there is "someone" out there to encourage me. I don't know what I'm going to do if I get kicked out. Thanks for "listening"...