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.
Many schools do not require teaching credentials or experience when they hire faculty. This woman may not be stupid, but she is definatly not a teacher. If your accounts are accurate, someone better start complaining before she starts ruining grades. She could just be insecure and uncomfortable in her rule, or she could be a little unstable.
She sounds like she needs psychiatric care. Report her now. Keep written records. Try to get other students to go in on this with you. Or you could be anonymous, I guess.
i had a nursing instructor who grabbed my arm when i was on my lunch. she happened to believe that i left my patient without an iv running. to put in context, that day was my first ever to hang an iv, i was excited and nervous, so naturally i asked this instructor for help to set up my patient's 50 ml zosyn bag to be run at 50 ml/hr. we finished setting up the doodad, i looked at the clock, it was noon; so knowing very well my dosage calculation's skills learned from 1st semester and upon taking a class (i'm in the 2nd semester now), i am mentally prepared to determine the exact time this bag would finish running (ONE HOUR), that's when i decided to go to lunch. me and the instructor parted ways then; but before doing so, as i had done the previous saturday, i had given my primary nurse and my team leader (who happens to be another student nurse) the heads up of me going to lunch. however, the next time i came across THAT instructor, her white face was beet red. she searched for me, and according to the students she asked where i was and was told that i had gone to the cafeteria, where she found me at 1235 pm. naturally, i was very confused of her intimidating presence, i wondering what the heck that i've done to get this woman so upset. i asked, to which she replied that i left my patient without fluid running, logically i asked her how in the world did she come up with that conclusion. she yielded no new materials as she was so upset that all she could say to me over and over again while we were walking side by side that i left my patient without her fluids running in her vein. i walked next to her, she still grabbing my arm, i questioned her mental math. i asked her over and over what's 50 ml/ 50 ml/hr, to which she replied 30 mins, and to which my only nonverbal reply was a quizzical look at her. me thinking that explaining anything to her at that point is futile. she is adamant on her point as i am with mine, naturally. i didn't have any option but to follow her in my patient's room--- lo and behold, the zosyn bag was still about 1/3 full or less; that's when she stood next to the bag, she poked it several times, her probably wondering why in the heck that doodad is still running. at this moment, i wanted to yell at her, just to go ballistic on her---which i did, but only after a few minutes of calm before the storm, as it is my unfortunate modus operandi to go without reservation on any one who thinks he or she could just steamroll any person despite on being wrong, that's only i've determined that i am within every right to do so, for it has been my nature not to pass up a good fight, regardless of the position of who i go against, and regardless of the outcome. though, i wouldn't say that i didn't expect her to retaliate, as it is the nature of humans when confronted; conversely, and in retrospect, i believe that she did not for a minute have thought i would try anything to jeopardize my position as a student in her class, but i did anyway, believing that since i am absolutely within my bounds, and correct, to show how upset she's made me because of what she did, which is just totally uncalled for---who is acting unprofessional now (another point of contention, i.e. another story!!!). she could have at least gone to the patient's room to check that i did what she accused me of doing. any way, to cut to the chase, it turned out to be a very interesting day for both us, she was vindictive as i was pigheaded. my classmates that day were wondering why in the world i was very disrespectul to her, i didn't tell any one for i was already fulminating mad inside, consciously or subconsciously i happened to make it my prerogative to up her, now is better than to be passive-aggressive with her (which btw i was to her during the remainder of the semester), so that day i went on cutting students in the middle of their profuse and sincere compliments to her during post conference, t'was her last day subbing to our assigned clinical instructor. i was fuming mad during post conference that i was determined to cut her down with the intention of really getting back, even to the point that i went as far as contemptously calling her a former nun. i was asked several days later by my classmates the reason for calling her that. i did not explain it then or now; but she happened to use her religious fervor and former position as a nun, that is to use the name of God to place fear in me, making me believe that she can do anything since God is behind her and so forth, and that whatever i do that day, God according to her is instructing her to instruct me, seriously. when she specifically said that that the morning, i knew this woman has a terrific ax to grind, and she would use it, believing that she's been blessed to do it. i've never came across to any one like this person before (well, that's actually a lie, i know of at least one in my family who happens to think so, too. however, my cousin does it so as i gathered from her previous negations of others choices, i.e. her past dealing with people like me, gay). However, this is besides the point, since i am NOT OUT in nursing school, i still refuse, even now, to believe that nursing instructors like this woman exist. now that i've confronted one in the flesh, and i've actually become the brunt of her uncalled for stupidity. i've come to realize that it really is disturbing, no matter how i throw the dice, just a dizzying fall from my first time meeting her. i honestly thought that my first impression was correct---that she's an exceptional instructor, but then came that awful day when she reared her natural self. now, i've come to the conclusion since that day, call me paranoid or not, that it would no longer be a smooth ride from then on; that is, on the premise of what she's capable of doing, and the extent she'll do it in order to prove to herself, and perhaps to those who is blind enough to believe, that she's right, despite of her actions which in the very least are not congruent to what she says.
there is one definite characteristic about her, which is her only saving grace despite of what i think of her, and that is she is an exceptional nurse. she really cares for the patients; but as an instructor goes, even if backed by many years of teaching and an advanced degree, she's somewhat of a failure. for really it is in the way she sometimes handles students that are very questionable (her failure), and when confronted with her questionable behavior---one "sees" it in her eyes that she "knows" that she's wrong. personally, it is at this moment when one is able to gauge pretty much how a person is. it is what that one does when one is wrong; surprisingly enough, her attitude and behavior when she's wrong prove to be a real letdown. consequently, it is not in her best interest or to the best interest of any student to allow her continue on as an instructor, for now: her actions are unbecoming, and to be vindictive when confronted, even when that student is not so adept in letting go of that something as to be principled or just utterly unrelenting as to be ridiculous, regardless, but in whose exercise of the latter's will power garners a placement of disadvantage in an instructor-student relationship is unsavory. i am hoping that i am wrong with this assessment, but when the term ended to the last day, and even now, she's has proven me absolutely correct.
This teacher tried to tell me that to diagnose a PE they would do a heart cath! ***!? I tried to tell her that where I work we do a CTA of the chest and she said that the CT would take too much time and put the pt at an unnecessary risk!
Katie82, RN
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Many schools do not require teaching credentials or experience when they hire faculty. This woman may not be stupid, but she is definatly not a teacher. If your accounts are accurate, someone better start complaining before she starts ruining grades. She could just be insecure and uncomfortable in her rule, or she could be a little unstable.