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:ancong!:congrats!!!:hpygrp:

I agree to all of the above. Keep your eyes on the prize. Take care of yourself also. You can't care for others as a nurse if you can't care for yourself. Stay strong. You are almost there!

LoL.. Okay, but I'd like to thank you for the good advices you give here anyways. Stay cool!

Sorry, can't rest it just yet. To Old ICU Nurse: My point is, I would call anybody--anybody a Doctor! MD or PhD holders alike. It's just this one Instructor I had I had issues/troubles calling her that! After how she maltreated me, is all!

I REALLY REALLY just doN'T understand why Nursing Instructors previously described above have to be mean and wicked to their Nursing Students. The world needs future nurses. They should just help nursing students instead in order to help make the world a better place to live in. That's all. I rest my case.

Just because once in your life you had paid a huge amount of tuition to write your PhD dissertation/thesis doesn't give you a right to look down on your students. You are a regular person without that. Attitude is what that instructor has. Because Doctors, real MDs I know, do NOT behave as if all the people are below them. Someone will NOT be someone without other people. It's a shame someone is a nurse, obliged to care for others, when all that person does is bash in something you have achieved in two years once in your life. That won't be forever.

I agree with this: MorningStar99999 "These instructors don't understand is - if you take away their credentials - they're regular people like you and I. Because one day these same nursing students may treat their former nursing instructor with a foley catheter, of some sort. Or doing chest compressions, for example. I understand to challenge them to the utmost, but to break them down is uncalled for." To OLD ICU Nurse: I would have to respect if you want to call someone with a PhD degree "Doctor" before her name. The thing is, when I was in the hospital doing my clinical rotation, I called her Doctor ___ (fill in her first name), the nurses and doctors who heard looked at me and her. I thought maybe they thought she is actually a real medical doctor, it was awkward. When you are in the hospital setting and you call someone a doctor when she is not an MD, people might think she is a physician. I know it is hard to get PhD degree, getting BSN is already hard, much more getting higher degrees. MDs studied and help save lives for 10 years to be called Doctors plus huge clinical internship residency hours under their belt, as compared to PhD "doctors" who studied 2 to 4 years max to write PhD dissertation. Big difference to be called "Doctor" is what I mean. To OLd ICU Nurse, you might think:" To those who think that anyone with a PhD in nursing should not be called doctor--you are very mistaken. It is very difficult attain a doctorate in nursing (or any other discipline) and it shows ignorance of the writer. Those who think that physicians are the only one who "deserve" the title of "Doctor" are in for a rude awakening in a hospital setting--especially a teaching institution. " But you know what traditionally, Doctors arent called Doctors if you're not a real Medical Doctor. My thought is: If you are a Person who have a High education such as PhD and would want to be called a "Doctor", you should present yourself as a respectful person who deserves respect from people who doesnt have your PhD degree or from your students. SHE DOESN' T NEED to be called "Doctor". What she needs is some lessons in how to respect her students and be professional. And actually TEACH in class/lab/clinical. And not make nursing school a place to unload her pain or personal frustations. Students did not sign up or paid for that! I think that complaints in this thread comes down to teachers who are NOT doing their jobs encouraging students to learn what they know and share what they have experienced in Nursing career. These teachers are old and will be retiring soon, and maybe replaced by these students who they have previously in their teaching careers when they were able and too high and mighty embarassed and maltreated when they were trying to learn and thrive in the nursing field as STUDENTS. These teachers might need the help of their students as nurses someday in the future when they will be confined in hospitals as patients, so teachers should be good to their students. The most basic, golden rule:"Do not do unto others what you don't want others to do unto you" still holds true. As I say, rephrased from above, Vengeance is not ours, It's God's.

*personality

Holly G., You have a rare concerned nursing teacher. Believe it or not, she is one of the few that REALLY wants to help a student! You are actually lucky to have a teacher who's concerned about your "quietness" in class. Some of the teachers I know in nursing school just don't care. I am actually surprised you are complaining about her. Anyways, I think she's just concerned. I think she likes you as a student because the fact that she came up to you and actually ask how you are doing in class, and not talk to you about a failing grade or anything of that sort. Maybe she sees some potential in you and that she sees you are trying, only she wants to see you open up in class since most of your classmates are more open and talkative. But then again, that is your perssonality. The fact that you are doing good, passing your exams and doing your best with your homeworks and stuff, I see that you are really trying. Just keep your eye on the prize, which is finishing your nursing degree. You will be fine!

To PharmGirl: You sound like this pharm teacher I used to have...

Love this post! Hope came across this before I went through nursing school! Couldve avoided the Bully and her Bully ways

i know how that student must've felt. I used to go to Triton College, it is a community college in Illinois. I had a teacher who wants to be called Doctor ___. Personally, I want to call someone Doctor if the person is a medical doctor, but if you are a nurse who wants to be called doctor because you have Ph. D., technically, you're really not a real doctor--"Hello!". This same teacher made me feel she hated me from Day One. While she applaud on other students' lab skills performances, she made me feel like her watching me make beds or do any skill was a waste of her time--the time I and the government (since it is a community college) paid her. Well, you know I paid the same amount of money the other students she watched and praised do their beds/skills, for me not to be treated the same way she treated others was unfair and inappropriate. She also made faces while I do skills. When I passed that course, my first sem first year first course in ADN that year, I was so happy I was done with her. But the following sem, she had to be my clinical teacher in Labor & Del. She screamed at me at the nursing station and made me cry I did not want to do nursing anymore. The following day, she must have thought I will complain to the authorities, she wrote me two page details of how I did that day in clinical and made me sign that paper so she'd have something to cover her a**, a justification for her unprofessionalism. I didn't tell the nursing director or anybody in the college. I don't think my classmates knew. She screamed at me in the nursing station when we were alone. In the nursing classroom halls, she would smile at everybody and when she sees me would make that disgusting look like "why are you here?". I believe anybody who is a nurse or will become a nurse will be or has in some way going to get or has been maltreated. What surprised me is why would a student get that in school. Teachers should encourage and teach. What she did to me was exactly the opposite. I thought, she doesn't deserve to be called a doctor with an attitude like that, she's not a real med doctor anyway, she's a nurse who have a Ph.D. None of the Doctors, real Medical Doctors who I personally know behave like that. Most nurses I know, whom I've met at work or elsewhere or relatives who are nurses were never rude to clients like that. As her student I am her client, as a patient to a nurse. I paid her. Well, you know, I believe in karma. And that God doesnt like ugly but is not crazy over beauty either. This year someone I know updated me about that nursing school I attended and told me that that professor can not teach this semester due to health reasons. Should I just think that she maltreated me in response to the pain she was feeling that is now manifesting in her body? Or maybe God is punishing her now. I do get mad but only God gets even.