The teacher from hell!

[keno138]

This is my first semester in the program. Aside from going from an "A" student to a "B" student, everything is okay. There is one teacher however, who really worries me. I'm not just flaming her because of something she's done to me, I'm genuinely concerned. Let me just set up a few situations that have taken place with this teacher.

While helping students with dosage calculation, she herself could not do them. While writing them out on the board she made several mistakes, which students corrected, then she threw down her marker and yelled for everyone to leave.

She told two different students who were having problems with the dosage calculations test that they were "stupid" and that they should get on anti-depressants for their test anxiety...

She told us in class that we should never put perfume on an ulcer,despite how bad it smells... well duh!

When she called my name out in roll call, she was amazed that I was male because she though Cameron was strictly a girls name.

I won't say that she is dumb, but she is definitely a space cadet. I don't know how she got in the position to teach all of us, but I really hope I don't have her for future classes.

[Ilithya]

My year when had a student walk by a code blue, the doctor told her to get an IV pole so the student takes off finds an IV pole and runs back to the code with it, our teacher stopped her, took the IV pole and started cleaning it in the middle of the code while everyone stared at her in shock.

[Wise Woman RN]

I had a clinical instructor once who used a red pen all over my paperwork. I took it to the lead instructor, who found no errors in my work, and asked what the instructor was thinking... I said I didn't know. Understand, I was 40 years old at the time, and very protective of my classmates, and the power trip this woman was on was just wrong. Anyway, I didn't like to say anything bad about her, so I just said, "Well, she's really pretty, anyway..." That was the best thing I could say about her... *S* She wasn't teaching next term...

[barefootlady, ADN, RN]

We have a very bad snow storm when I was in school and the state closed the roads except for necessary travel. Our college was closed. The next day was clinical, our instructor called us and told us to report to the facility. I told her no, I could not be there, with the road closed, I could not afford a 300.00 fine for being on the road without just cause. She tried to report me the the head of the program. The dean told her to get a grip, she would have put the school in danger of being sued if someone wrecked, needless to say, I was excused and so was 13 other students in our clinical rotation. She did not teach the next year.

[Blove86]

We have a very bad snow storm when I was in school and the state closed the roads except for necessary travel. Our college was closed. The next day was clinical, our instructor called us and told us to report to the facility. I told her no, I could not be there, with the road closed, I could not afford a 300.00 fine for being on the road without just cause. She tried to report me the the head of the program. The dean told her to get a grip, she would have put the school in danger of being sued if someone wrecked, needless to say, I was excused and so was 13 other students in our clinical rotation. She did not teach the next year.

Wow LOL!!!:no::no:

[CaLLaCoDe, BSN, RN]

I have had this same instructor.

I hope she retires soon~! If I'm not mistaken, she's senile and walks into rooms full of students and yells out names of students not present in the room. Dr. P__ has a doctorate in education and lorded it over me that my family must be forcing me to become a nurse. A major scary deal IMHO. And she has a penchant for targeting minority students. A person like this is a disgrace to our profession.

[barefootlady, ADN, RN]

I am finally going to say what I have thought for years. Some of our educators in nursing are great, others are not fit to be dog catchers.

I do not know how to solve the problems facing new students and new nurses but I know I am thankful I can be there to run interference for my family when they are sick and hospitalized. It is scary to be a patient today.

[blondy2061h, MSN, RN]

Had a professor who made a mistake when talking about a certain drug. It was a drug I had taken in the past. I called her out on the mistake, and she told me I was just not getting the most up to date info. I explained the pharmacology to her. She insisted I was wrong. I had a friend who was a drug rep for that company, and asked her about it that night. She said I was right. The professor maintained that she was.

Same professor told us that you make 20mls of saliva an hour, so when checking a g-tube for residual, you need to subtract 20x however many hrs it's been since it was checked, to account for saliva, from the residual.

Same professor told us there's no reason to check NG placement if it was checked with an x-ray when it was first put in.

Same professor told us she can cure autism with a special diet.

It just went on and on and on like this.

I ended up reporting the professor when she personally attacked me after class one day, and on another occasion pinched my shoulder and said, "Getting fat there, better lose some weight."

She no longer teaches nursing at my school, but is still employed there.

[Flightline, BSN, RN]

After, and I stress "after" you have your diploma, you should write a formal letter of complaint to the dean of the program and also to the head of the college and detail all these issues that you should be keeping notes on (date, places, people involved).

For now, just try to appease her, because sometimes it's easier to get rid of the complainer than to fix the complaint.

[pagandeva2000, LPN]

These stories are unbelieveable, but unfortunately, I am not shocked. I don't have horror stories to compare with these doozies, however, I was harassed by the program director for being bright enough not to listen to her. I graduated top of the class, but behind the stress and B-S of it all, I decided (without regret) not to attend the ceremony. It really turned me off to 'higher education' in a sense because these behaviors demonstrated to me that the degree does not make the person. Sometimes, it seems that it gives that nut more opportunities to spread their manure to other areas.

[vashtee, RN]

These stories are unbelieveable, but unfortunately, I am not shocked. I don't have horror stories to compare with these doozies, however, I was harassed by the program director for being bright enough not to listen to her. I graduated top of the class, but behind the stress and B-S of it all, I decided (without regret) not to attend the ceremony.

I'm skipping out on my candle lighting ceremony for the same reason. I haven't personally been harrassed (yet), but witnessing the harrassment of others is demoralizing. I don't care to spend one minute more than I have to with some of these people.

[Acosmo27]

Same professor told us she can cure autism with a special diet.

hey! So can Jenny McCarthy...