sent home from clinical

[zelda08]

We had a patient care plan due, and part of it was to collect data using nurses notes & a patient profile on our first patient of the start of clinicals. it was due the 3rd day of clinical. We spoke about the care plan at post conference, what she expected, and what the due date was, and that was it.

come this morning, I hand her my care plan with my collected data. she looks through it, then states that I did not do it correctly, that my patient profile should have been typed up. She handed me my MARS for my two patients, then came back 10 minutes later to inform me and two other girls that she had spoke to the head clinical instructor and we were to be sent home.

In our portfolio w/ instructions for assignments, it only states that the care plan and concept map need to be typed, it does not say anything about the patient profile. The only place it says all of the assignments given should be typed (barring nurses notes), is the clinical policy.

but the instructor had stated that she only wanted the care plan typed, she did not specify re-typing nurses notes & the patient profile.

I'm having a lot of anxiety about this; I have to meet with the head instructor tomorrow, and make up a clinical day. I was supposed to get my midterm evaluation and now I'm afraid that I'm not going to pass this clinical because of such a stupid, stupid mistake/miscommunication. I know now to clarify every single thing with regarding anything.

I'm especially frustrated since this clinical instructor has allowed students to show up late to clinical, without paperwork and without equipment (drug books or stethoscopes) and they have not been sent home, and she has allowed them to re-do assignments.

how can i move past this? i'm feeling as though now i'm in a bad light with my professor

[jj224]

This is the kind of BS I hate about nursing school. You didn't type something so they sent you home. What a joke.

[akulahawkRN, ADN, RN, EMT-P]

Don't bring up the "other" students. Not yet. Be ready to discuss this particular issue and perhaps be ready to discuss anything else you might have seen/done in clinical up to this point. What you need to know is what you need to do to ensure that you can continue in clinical and since you were sent home, rightly or wrongly, you still need to make up that clinical day. If you're reasonably certain you'll never have that clinical instructor again and you have strong evidence that the CI isn't following school protocol consistently, then that's something you may consider bringing up later on. You need to pick your battles very wisely.