Unprofessional Clinical Educator.. What would you do?

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I’ve been a RN for a year in the ICU. Our clinical educator is a woman in her 60’s who generally seems to be well liked and gets along with everyone, although being the clinical educator she can be seen as annoying sometimes - I suppose that comes with the job. But she doesn’t seem to like me.

There have been two occasions where she has inappropriately approached me about an unrelated topic while I’m doing my morning assessment on a patient. The first time she was in a panic asking me if my BLS had expired because she didn’t have it on file, in a patient’s doorway. Today she came up behind me while I was suctioning a vented patient and asked me, “What the hell happened to you yesterday?” in regards to me not showing up to an optional class I had forgotten about. She was almost sort of grilling me and told me myself and another person hadn’t shown and she was livid. 

I think this is inappropriate and I’m almost tempted to speak up because this is the second time she’s done something similar, but curious to know everyone’s thoughts.

Thank you!

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On 6/4/2021 at 5:38 AM, Emergent said:

It's a fantastic time of life for me. No need to be thin-skinned about our age!

It's not so much being thin-skinned when places won't hire nurses who are as qualified as their younger counterparts----(all things being equal, except maybe a lot more experience on the older nurse's part)---due to age.  It gets to a point where some nurses don't want to reveal how much experience they have because they know they often won't be hired for a position due to their age. That's where the sensitivity may come from......

8 hours ago, Feelgood RN said:

You sound like a dream to work with. ?

I'm not a dream to work with.  If I'm doing patient care you need to be respectful of it and leave the patient's room until I'm done with the treatment.  The patient comes first in my book.  Charting comes first in yours.  Obviously.

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On 6/11/2021 at 3:45 PM, Hannahbanana said:

My old friends, I have just spent an entire afternoon rereading the epic Mockery of Nursing thread (Thanks for the link). My old posts are in there under an assigned alias after the {{whatever the big reorg was}} and just because I could, I gave out a lot of “likes,” to you all and even to myself, LOL. I miss you. I was so sorry to see that multi factorial free-flowing hash cut off to more comments. 


That was a real community. How I would love to see some of those threads again! Lung Butter scrubs! Pearson Vue! If I have a conviction for DUI / shoplifting / felony can I still be a nurse? Fomites! Comic Sans! Those great little emojis :bluecry: :wavey: ! My preceptor hates me! It was like a never-ending meet-up where the conversations keep drifting around, great fun. 

That made me wonder whatever happens to the #of posts, articles, and likes we had before that? I had something like more than 13,000 posts back in the day. I wonder if amnesty would restore them to all of us? Or were they lost electrons? Or maybe it’s best we are sort of born again. I dunno. 

It was fun hitting those mile stone # of posts and likes, and there were a lot of fun threads..... I almost didn't come back after the "big dump" changeover.  

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How would jacob rockstar RN handle a biter nurse?

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