I started my last semester of my RN program very badly. My clinical instructor and I had a serious personality clash. It snowballed into a big mess. I forgot that the instructor is always right. There are many chapters to this which I won't bore anybody with, other than the final one. I was made to sign a contract that said, among other things, that I would meet with the lab instructor once a week through February. After my first meeting with her, I came home to find an email from the dean of nursing saying I was going to be thrown out of the program because I did not pass my lab exam. I wasn't aware that I was being tested when I went to see the lab instructor. Throughout this crisis, I attempted to contact my advisor, other teachers, the dean, and so on. No one responded to me. I have such a bad taste in my mouth about how the entire episode happened that I don't think I would want to continue in this program even if I was allowed. Has anyone had an experience like this? Right now, my strategy is to look into other programs. I will probably have to spend a longer time in school, but I have no choice. Please advise!
I swear the responses I see on this board are making me sick!!! To the nurses who say quit, run out, do not pass go, are coawards and are part of the reason why nurses are so disrespected!! I went through a harder time that 99% of the people here. I had to speak in front of the the president of the university and the board of trustees. I had a teacher fail me because she didnt like me. After I fought and won I was treated like a GOD by the teaching staff including the dean! Teachers and students congratulated me on my perseverance. If you quit in your last or even first semester b/c of a teacher they were most likely right. You nurses who said quit and start over again are the type of nurses that get stepped on everyday at work. RESPECT for yourself means standing up for your rights in any situation no matter how tough! This is why we need more men in nursing!:angryfire
I cannot believe you actually clicked "submit reply" on purpose when you sent this. Respect for one's self means knowing when to gracefully bow out if necessary. And your hardship story doesn't compare to mine. That, I can guarantee you of. It takes guts, maturity and wisdom to know when to fight and when to fold and move on. The statement you made about being treated like a god bothers me. It smacks of some sort of self seeking god-complex image. Nurses of this type scare me because there's no limit to what they'll do in order to get a rush of getting the approval, the attention and acknowlegment from others, primarily, their superiors. Somebody had to say it.
Actually this whole thing smells to high heaven to me. How can someone be in their last semester and be 'rusty', 'needing to improved skills'? For crying out loud, she's nearly ready to graduate! If I were in my last semester and ran into a 'personality conflict' I'd never just tuck and run.
More to this story than meets the eye.
When I was in school, our clinicals were performed under the license of the instructor. If the instructor did not feel your skills were up to par, s/he had the right to refuse you into that part of the program because it's their license, not ours (because we don't yet have one while in school) that is on the line. It sounds like to me that the skills were lacking, she was given a chance to improve but after one session, the skills could have been so badly lacking that the clinical instructor refused to put her licenses on the line, and rightfully so. I didn't have problems in school but I've seen others almost just make it but did not pass due to lack of skills and the instructor not willing to take the risk. Also sounds like lack of understanding between student and the school about the details of this contract. It could be that after one session, the school saw no reason to go any further with the sessions. But I would encourage Diahni to not give up. She's acknowledged that she needs to brush up on her skills. Do this and then try again. This experience doesn't make you less of a nurse than anyone else. Know where your weaknesses lay, improve upon them and go for it again.
I cannot believe you actually clicked "submit reply" on purpose when you sent this. Respect for one's self means knowing when to gracefully bow out if necessary. And your hardship story doesn't compare to mine. That, I can guarantee you of. It takes guts, maturity and wisdom to know when to fight and when to fold and move on. The statement you made about being treated like a god bothers me. It smacks of some sort of self seeking god-complex image. Nurses of this type scare me because there's no limit to what they'll do in order to get a rush of getting the approval, the attention and acknowlegment from others, primarily, their superiors. Somebody had to say it.
Ashes
Lol!! Superiors!!! Thats the problem right there we were all created equal, some people chose to be beneath others. Why would anyone bow out gracefully knowing that there right. Your mentality is the same reason why nurses have no power, b/c they have that servant mentality.
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I swear the responses I see on this board are making me sick!!! To the nurses who say quit, run out, do not pass go, are coawards and are part of the reason why nurses are so disrespected!! I went through a harder time that 99% of the people here. I had to speak in front of the the president of the university and the board of trustees. I had a teacher fail me because she didnt like me. After I fought and won I was treated like a GOD by the teaching staff including the dean! Teachers and students congratulated me on my perseverance. If you quit in your last or even first semester b/c of a teacher they were most likely right. You nurses who said quit and start over again are the type of nurses that get stepped on everyday at work. RESPECT for yourself means standing up for your rights in any situation no matter how tough! This is why we need more men in nursing!:angryfire
Are you purposely trying to "flame" others on this discussion board? Especially in your last comment where you say there should be more male nurses who think more highly of themselves than they should. Standing up for yourself is one thing. Your contempt and lack of respect are another.
Do you think a man or woman should stay in an abusive relationship and not be able to move forward as an individual? What would you do if a boss, or a unit, staffing, any number of conditions, were impossible? Do you think you can bully yourself out of any situation?
Thinking that others treat you like a deity is a bit much, unless you're better at hiding your view of yourself and others than you are here. You might want to hear what is being said behind your back.
There are any number of situations in life where walking away IS showing respect for yourself, and as far as the nursing profession being adversely affected, why should a hospital CHANGE if the nurses stay in a bad situation?)
As to the comment that there should be more men in nursing, I agree. But if those same men are going to talk to me the way you seem to be, I don't want 'em, thanks.
I swear the responses I see on this board are making me sick!!! To the nurses who say quit, run out, do not pass go, are coawards and are part of the reason why nurses are so disrespected!! I went through a harder time that 99% of the people here. I had to speak in front of the the president of the university and the board of trustees. I had a teacher fail me because she didnt like me. After I fought and won I was treated like a GOD by the teaching staff including the dean! Teachers and students congratulated me on my perseverance. If you quit in your last or even first semester b/c of a teacher they were most likely right. You nurses who said quit and start over again are the type of nurses that get stepped on everyday at work. RESPECT for yourself means standing up for your rights in any situation no matter how tough! This is why we need more men in nursing!:angryfire
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Sometimes it does take being beaten up twice as a nursing student to be foolish and, I do mean foolish, to return (sans coward! and a male nursing student to boot!). Because not all nursing schools jive with all their students, to chose another institution is absolutely not FOOLISH! I saw really amazing students get befuddled, lose hope and die and not return to nursing school. I do not see it as failure on their part, if they had like me decided to try their luck at another school more power to them. I see it as a failure on the part of the nursing school not to retain students who other than a mess up, would have made damn good nurses. I chose not to continue with a school of which I had to wait a full year to return to to attempt to continue only to be shot down once again. Now that I have my degree from another school the original school can bite my dust. I have full contempt for that school that Cal State and do not hesitate to share it to whomever is considering entering its doors.
I think we should hold accountable those institutions with high attrition rates. It is immoral to destroy the hopes and dreams of so many honorable students!
I started my last semester of my RN program very badly. My clinical instructor and I had a serious personality clash. It snowballed into a big mess. I forgot that the instructor is always right. There are many chapters to this which I won't bore anybody with, other than the final one. I was made to sign a contract that said, among other things, that I would meet with the lab instructor once a week through February. After my first meeting with her, I came home to find an email from the dean of nursing saying I was going to be thrown out of the program because I did not pass my lab exam. I wasn't aware that I was being tested when I went to see the lab instructor. Throughout this crisis, I attempted to contact my advisor, other teachers, the dean, and so on. No one responded to me. I have such a bad taste in my mouth about how the entire episode happened that I don't think I would want to continue in this program even if I was allowed. Has anyone had an experience like this? Right now, my strategy is to look into other programs. I will probably have to spend a longer time in school, but I have no choice. Please advise!
Diahni
No one told you it was a test??? No one would get back to you??? :uhoh21:
You need to start at the start and get to the bottom of this. I, also, would not throw in the towel without a major battle if I were at the last semester. Surely you've had some warnings and notices along the way and this is not happening out of the blue??? Fight it.
My best advice is not to argue with the instructors period. You can complain once the program is complete, but to argue with them while you are i9n the program is pointless and will only hurt you in the end. Do your time and stay off the radar.
Good point, Caliotter3. yup, this is the military, the authority is always right, and this is very very important in war to get everybody on the same page and work as a unit. On the other hand, I see various health care people arguing about who is right all the time. Could Seans "victory" be because of his gender? HMMMMMMM. Let's see, guys are "studs" and girls are you-know-what. Guys are are assertive and manly and girls are agressive rhymes-with-witches. His story would have played out very differently were he a woman. As I mentioned before, there are many things to reccommend men into the profession - so many. But Sean jumped in, was presumptuous, accusatory, and finally said something to the effect that if I had behaved just like him everything would have worked out and I would be treated like a "God." Guys do that, don't they? Men who enter the profession have much to learn from women, and I applaud their joining a traditionally female profession. It takes a lot of guts to do that.
God Bless!
I think it might be good to spend less time here and more on your studies. What is your current status at school? Have you involved an attorney?
I think we should hold accountable those institutions with high attrition rates. It is immoral to destroy the hopes and dreams of so many honorable students!
TeleRNer,
You speak great wisdom. Not all schools jive with all students. I feel so badly for so many of the LPNs who bombed out of my RN program. I truly believe they flunked out because they received no support.
Think some people missed this info in OP follow-up post:
This info is most likely why they met with the Dean and why no longer in program.
I agree. I mean, when you are almost to FINISH school, your skills should not be suffering. And if you were supposed to be strengthening your skills and they were letting you have extra practice in the lab to stay in school, wouldn't you want to study up on the procedures BEFORE entering that lab so that you were up on your techniques? I never went into lab without studying up. I practiced all week long at home with the supplies given to take home. And if we diid not have them to take home (for instance, sharps) I read up in my text, lab book, and notes on what I was supposed to be working on in lab. It seems to be common sense that you would not walk into that lab without reviewing things.
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I cannot believe you actually clicked "submit reply" on purpose when you sent this. Respect for one's self means knowing when to gracefully bow out if necessary. And your hardship story doesn't compare to mine. That, I can guarantee you of. It takes guts, maturity and wisdom to know when to fight and when to fold and move on. The statement you made about being treated like a god bothers me. It smacks of some sort of self seeking god-complex image. Nurses of this type scare me because there's no limit to what they'll do in order to get a rush of getting the approval, the attention and acknowlegment from others, primarily, their superiors. Somebody had to say it.
Ashes