This is why you should be careful what you post on facebook

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I saw a news item from the Kansas City area that four students were suspended because they took pictures posing with a placenta and posted them on facebook...As I mentioned 100 times in other threads, my particular schooled laid it right out there on the line that they would take disciplinary action, up to and including removing you from the program if you post inappropriate material...I really think you're playing with fire if you start to either 1) air your grievances or 2) post tasteless content on facebook.

They are able to be reinstated back in the nursing program but I bet those teahcers are going to ride the you know what out of them. The rest of their time in nursing school is be terriable(not that its right bc they still should be treated fairly).

We all make mistakes but we shouldnt want to basiclly stone someone for it. I'm sure a lesson was learned.

Actually, if they're smart, the school of nursing will be very careful with these four students. The students have demonstrated that they will go to court to fight for their rights....without a lot of documentation, it would be really hard to expel them from the program without a law suit for retaliation.

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People should let nursing schoolbe nursing school!!..And let facebook be facebook!!

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Actually, if they're smart, the school of nursing will be very careful with these four students. The students have demonstrated that they will go to court to fight for their rights....without a lot of documentation, it would be really hard to expel them from the program without a law suit for retaliation.

I don't think she meant that the school will expel them - I think she meant that the instructors will be *extra* particular towards these students because of what they did. Not to mention the reaction of their fellow students. For some reason, in NS whenever a student makes even the most basic mistake classmates and instructors tend to look at that student a little bit differently. My instructor also seems to have felt out our weaknesses and tends to push us further in those areas - to make us excel - but it can and does sometimes feel like picking or bullying. Clinicals are especially difficult for those not adept in critical thinking or time management. It wouldn't surprise me if the instructors of these students pushed them farther and expected more out of them.

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I don't think she meant that the school will expel them - I think she meant that the instructors will be *extra* particular towards these students because of what they did. Not to mention the reaction of their fellow students. For some reason, in NS whenever a student makes even the most basic mistake classmates and instructors tend to look at that student a little bit differently. My instructor also seems to have felt out our weaknesses and tends to push us further in those areas - to make us excel - but it can and does sometimes feel like picking or bullying. Clinicals are especially difficult for those not adept in critical thinking or time management. It wouldn't surprise me if the instructors of these students pushed them farther and expected more out of them.

I understood what she meant. But from the article, all 4 students were strong students before this incident....if they're suddenly graded harder, it will be pretty easy, in a court of law, to show retaliation. I think the school is likely smart enough to know this.

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I routinely remind my coworkers that snapping pics with the phones and uploading to facebook may come back to haunt them...since pics usually have nametags, names and hospital name somewhere nearby. it looks like you're not working.

also, 3 nurses took a pic with a huge blood clot from a chest tube...1 fired, 2 suspended.

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Privacy settings are great, until.......someone is mad at you, or doesn't like you and you have a mutual friend and they see what you post through that. Doesn't take much to send it to the people you don't want to see it.

I have just deleted some co-workers as friends on Facebook because they post inappropriate pictures and comments regarding work; and I would rather not know about it. They will hang themselves but at least those posts will not be found on my account.

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Privacy settings are great, until.......someone is mad at you, or doesn't like you and you have a mutual friend and they see what you post through that. Doesn't take much to send it to the people you don't want to see it.

That's just a question of who you're "friending." There's no one on my friend list that I'm concerned will get mad at me and try and harm me.

I have just deleted some co-workers as friends on Facebook because they post inappropriate pictures and comments regarding work; and I would rather not know about it. They will hang themselves but at least those posts will not be found on my account.

Inappropriate pictures that friends post, are never on my account unless I'm tagged in them (and I'm notified whenever someone tags me). I solve this problem by not having inappropriate photos taken of me...so I'm not tagged in inappropriate photos. Simple solution. If others are tagged in inappropriate photos, or are posting inappropriate photos....it doesn't show in my account.

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What it comes down to is...why on Earth are you snapping pictures at clinical? That has to be THE MOST supreme form of immaturity that there can be (other than texting, talking on the cell phone during clinicals). It absolutely blows my mind that students have to have their cell phones or IPods with them every waking moment so they can get the update on what Jennifer bought at the mall. Who freakin' cares? This is more important than nursing school?

And taking a picture of body tissues/organs and posting them on Facebook? What's the purpose? "Oh wow. Donna is posing with an umbilical cord." Seriously, is this what's considered mature? Some people reallllly need to do better things with their time. And nursing schools should have some type of disclaimer in their policies guide that cell phones, electronic devices, beepers, etc. are BANNED from all classrooms, labs, and clinical sites. It's reaching pathetic proportions.

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What it comes down to is...why on Earth are you snapping pictures at clinical? That has to be THE MOST supreme form of immaturity that there can be (other than texting, talking on the cell phone during clinicals). It absolutely blows my mind that students have to have their cell phones or IPods with them every waking moment so they can get the update on what Jennifer bought at the mall. Who freakin' cares? This is more important than nursing school?

And taking a picture of body tissues/organs and posting them on Facebook? What's the purpose? "Oh wow. Donna is posing with an umbilical cord." Seriously, is this what's considered mature? Some people reallllly need to do better things with their time. And nursing schools should have some type of disclaimer in their policies guide that cell phones, electronic devices, beepers, etc. are BANNED from all classrooms, labs, and clinical sites. It's reaching pathetic proportions.

According to the article, this wasn't a true clinical, it was a lab session at the hospital.

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