I was treated like my dirt by one of my instructors every time I had clinicals. It was my second semester in the LPN program. This teacher would degrade me in front of anyone possible(other students, staff, pts.). I was shy and she was also my authority so I took it. Towards the end I hit my breaking point. She started making a spectacle of me in the nurses station and I blew up and let her have it. She ended up apologizing to me and I never had any more problems with her again. I remember when I was accepted into the nursing program. My biology teacher told me how evil nursing instructors were and that I needed to be able to give it right back to them. Boy was she right.