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Thanks leelee2!! I did go to the JAN website--very informative!

Thank you Fribblett--that helps!

If any of you suffer from OCD or extreme obsessiveness--do you disclose your problem to instructors, employers, co-workers, classmates at first, wait till later, or not at all? I have done it all these ways and have found that it really does nothing positive to tell (esp. instructors or employers) beforehand. Any thoughts? Also has anyone ever had any accommodations made for them with an anxiety disorder or problem such as OCD? Thanks!!

Thanks for both your replies. Yes, I do definitely need to improve my confidence! I never, never have had any conflicts with my instructors until that last day at clinicals when I knew it was all over for me. As far as OCD and being late---has always been my biggest challenge--thought that was typical with OCDers. Thanks again!!! Karen

Thanks! What do you do in behavioral health?:)

Thanks for everyone who posted a reply. It seems that the Director of the program at the school I attended is very pro-hands-on, very fast and impatient, and just downright mean and cutting. I did find out today though that she does really magnify even the smallest mistakes because she believes these can be the difference between a patient's life or death. She thinks I was a little stand-offish and thought my communication skills needed a lot of work, which I agree that they do, but I've been in an abusive marriage for 7 years where I learned not to speak up too much or there would be trouble and was ignored a lot. Also, right before starting school I separated from my husband and was adjusting to alot of transitions. But, one aspect of this clinical experience that I should mention is that the staff and patients really really seemed to like me a lot from the beginning and I am extremely intelligent (theory,tests) and one time when my instructor and I were at the charting station and she was drilling me about my patient's chart, I came off being very knowledgeable and the staff around could see that, and since my instructor was an actual employee on that floor at the hospital on her days off from teaching she was always to be No 1 in everything all the time. One of the PCT's also was a little jealous of the good rapport I had with my patient. so in the end they teamed up and did a fine job of getting rid of me. Anyway, the prospect of being an LPN looks pretty dim at this point, although I could go in Spring 2011 to a different campus of the same school. So, I going to try to find a job in assisted living or home health for the time being. Thanks again for everyone's excellent advice!!

I had already been checked off on doing AccuCheks and passed. I had done about 8 or so before this.

Am an older student in my 50s and have a touch of OCD, but do very well with it. Have had an absolutely merciless, nasty, power-loving instructor on my case for 1 1/2 quarters of school now. She is director of the nursing program and is also employed at one of the hospitals where we do clinicals. I been tardy several times and absent once. You immediately get on her black list if you're tardy or absent. But, I did well in clinicals until we were assigned our own patient (the second week), and my patient requested that I not be her nurse the second day I was to care for her---the first day we hit it off great. Then the 2nd day, my instructor and the PCT teamed up and started scrutinizing me and maximizing any little error I would make, documenting everything. When I confronted the instructor about what I was doing wrong she said that all the nurses had been complaining about me, but she wouldn't tell me what they said. Then, instead of letting her humiliate me in front of patients, classmates, employees, etc. I refused to do the second AccuChek she wanted to observe me doing, then she got the other instructor coming in to relieve her, she, and myself and we talked about 30 minutes and said for me not to come back to school any more. This has been devastating to me--but I'm going to talk with this instructor again this coming Tuesday, because I am an excellent student, do have good patient care skills (they need refining), and am very concerned about patient safety. Still trying to put all the pieces together. Any advice from anyone would be greatly appreciated!