how to report a teacher to the BRN?

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On a clinical day my instructor patted me down and searched me looking for my cell phone, which she found, yelled at me for a while then sent me home. I feel violated and humiliated. I want to know my rights as a student and her rights as an instructor (whether or not she can touch or search me). I would like to bring this to the attention of the BRN but don't know how. Any ideas how to handle this?? i've been so distraught over this here i am at 1 am thinking about it when i should be sleeping!!

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That's quite a conclusion to draw from a few posts on a thread on an internet discussion board ...

That, and it does nothing to help the perception that there is "OMG so much DRAMA" here.

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The Op was coming here for advice, amongst colleages, fellow students. We all agree that what she did was not correct. I would not take my phone to clinical, I have backups set up already if my daughter gets sick in daycare, ect. But did you ever try to just imagine what her sitation might have been here? She might be a single parent, with no family around, and thought she needed to have her only lifeline in order to be reached. Maybe, like myself, her close family member is succumbing to cancer, ready to give out any day. No one knows her situation, she did not disclose that. Yet some of you have yet to even imagine yourselves in that situation. If you can't do that one simple thing, then how can you ever be the best nurse that your patients deserve. To put yourself in their body and just imagine what it is like for one second... And I am not fighting Mi Vida Loca's battle, just supporting her, with agreement.

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The Op was coming here for advice, amongst colleages, fellow students. We all agree that what she did was not correct. I would not take my phone to clinical, I have backups set up already it my daughter get sick in daycare, ect. But did you ever try to just imagine what her sitation might have been here? She might be a single parent, with no family around, and thought she needed to have her only lifeline in order to be reached. Maybe, like myself, her close family member is succumbing to cancer, ready to give out any day. No one knows her situation, she did not disclose that. Yet some of you have yet to even imagine yourselves in that situation. If you can't do that one simple thing, then how can you ever be the best nurse that your patients deserve. And I am not fighting Mi Vida Loca's battle, just supporting her, with agreement.

Conversely, we could surmise that you are unable to follow strict guidelines and rules required of a nursing student because you "have a good reason" for breaking the rules. Further, we could surmise that if you are unable to follow a simple rule (like no cell phone in clinicals) without being to come up with an alternative solution (as in the phone issue, using a desk phone, etc), then you must not be a good nurse, either. I mean how could you take care of a patient without strict guidelines in place? What if you had extenuating circumstances and felt you didn't have to follow the rules, because you had a darn good reason?

My point here, is that you were not judged for your take on things, you certainly do not have the right to judge us because we firmly believe that the OP should follow rules and because we got silly late in the night. I think you should at least wait until you could meet us in person and then judge us behind our backs with your friends or something; not just from a few posts on a forum.

I guess we will just have to agree to disagree, without your insults and judgments, please. At any rate, you have flung yourself headfirst into the "ridiculousness" (isn't that what you phrased it?) of this thread but I am waaaay done with this thread by now. Have a good evening and best of luck to you.

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Conversely, we could surmise that you are unable to follow strict guidelines and rules required of a nursing student because you "have a good reason" for breaking the rules. Further, we could surmise that if you are unable to follow a simple rule (like no cell phone in clinicals) without being to come up with an alternative solution (as in the phone issue, using a desk phone, etc), then you must not be a good nurse, either. I mean how could you take care of a patient without strict guidelines in place? What if you had extenuating circumstances and felt you didn't have to follow the rules, because you had a darn good reason?

My point here, is that you were not judged for your take on things, you certainly do not have the right to judge us because we firmly believe that the OP should follow rules and because we got silly late in the night. I think you should at least wait until you could meet us in person and then judge us behind our backs with your friends or something; not just from a few posts on a forum.

I guess we will just have to agree to disagree, without your insults and judgments, please. At any rate, you have flung yourself headfirst into the "ridiculousness" (isn't that what you phrased it?) of this thread but I am waaaay done with this thread by now. Have a good evening and best of luck to you.

Like I stated in my post, I follow the rules, I'm a goodygoody, not one to test the rules.

Getting silly late in the night is a sore excuse for how you have responded to the OP.

I agree on this atleast: We will agree to disagree.

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The CI should understand boundaries, but the OP needs to understand rules and follow them.

No. NO. NO. NO. NO. There is no "but." I am tired of this "Well, the CI was wrong, but the student deserved it anyway" line of argument. The student should have been dismissed sans a pat-down. The pat-down was intimidation, harassment, and assault.

By the way, those of you who are confusing a condemnation of the clinical instructor's actions with a validation of the OPs behavior or desire to report to the state board need to learn to think critically instead of indulging in puerile knee-jerk arguments.

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Holy heck this thread has taken a weird and nasty turn. The OP has posted that the issue was resolved. She got the opinions she was looking for. We have all had a chance to express ours. Can't we just let this go and all be friends again, LOL!

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closing for staff review

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the op ha posted that there was an outcome so i am leaving this thread closed.

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