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In med/surg clinical as a nursing student I was put with a nurse who was impatient with me, and rude at times. She was a bully to me at times during clinical, and I am not the only one who notices this. When I requested to be put with another nurse to the clinical instructor, my requests were ignored, and week after week, I was put with this same nurse, who I felt unsafe with. Finally, at the end of the clinical instructor, my clinical instructor informs me that this nurse I was put with (the same nurse I feel unsafe with) in clinical thinks I should not be passed and I am failed from med/surg clinical. I immediately retake the med/surg clinical with another clinical instructor, and I am passed with no problem. Several people in the nursing school comment that I should not have been failed in the first place. I am in my last clinical before I am finally able to get my nursing degree, after this horrendous ordeal and then I am bullied by this same nurse again. The same nurse from the med/surg clinical who was a bully and rude to me, and who was responsible for failing me somehow finds out which unit I am doing med/surg II clinical on. She apparently calls down to the unit I am to do clinical on and spreads malicious gossip about me to the nurses on this unit. I am about to clinical on a unit with a bunch of nurses who have just been told all of this horrible stuff about me. It seems as though I am failed by this one nurse from clinical and then I go on to retake the clinical and she is trying to go after me again. I know I have few rights as a nursing student but this doesn't seem right to me for her to go after me like this. Because of her, I am humiliated, and have to face clinical for the entire semester with a group of nurses who taunt me. It does not seem right that this nurse can get away with bullying and that this behavior is condoned. It does not seem to send a good message to the other students I am in clinical with that I am being treated this way in clinical. Several nursing students remark that it is unbelievable what happened to me. Is there someone I could have talked to in the school of nursing I attended about this situation? Is there someone at the nursing school or at the hospital I could have talked to about this situation?

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I am in my third semester at nursing school in a BSN program. My clinical instructor failed me at the end of semester with no notice and without writing me up. At this nursing school, a student is written up twice before being failed. The clinical instructor fills out a Unsatisfactory Form and gives reason for the write-up. I was never written up or given notice that I would fail clinical. I had heard that this clinical instructor was tough on nursing students, but she seemed excessively tough. She was "impossible to please," and I believe it was a form of bullying. No matter how thorough my write-ups were (they were lengthy and exhaustive compared to some students) my work was not good enough, and she would take me into her office and admonish me and berate me for things that I would not have known as a nursing student still in the learning stages. It does not feel like this clinical instructor has done her job as a clinical instructor. I feel shortchanged. Clinical instructors are supposed to guide students, not belittle them and be punitive towards them to an excessive degree if the student is still learning. I have only been a nursing student for a few months and have had great clinical instructors so far. This one does not seem to take the time to work with me. Is there someone else I can show all of my work that I have done in this clinical before I am failed?

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