What to do about incompetent school?

windsurfer8, BSN, RN · Apr 22, 2016

What are "many issues"? You have a problem you will need to have specific dates, times they occurred, and what happened. If you go to the school administration and say "this school is awful"...what does that mean? The word "horrendous".ok? You say the reviews are a "waste of time". What evidence do you have this is a "waste of time"? You may FEEL it is, but that does not mean it is so. IF you become a nurse you may feel a doctor is "wasting your time" only to later learn that he was correct.

In the medical world life is often not going according to plan...you are still expected to provide A level care for your patients. Complete nursing school and move on.

amoLucia · Apr 22, 2016

Is that HESI review/prep course (specifically written as "conducted by HESI staff" or some such way) written into some contract/admission agreement that you signed? Otherwise, it's just rumor or heresay or 'not worth the paper it's NOT written on'. They MIGHT owe OWE you some type of review/prep course or they may owe you some type of $ refund. But otherwise, you may need a lawyer to recoup anything.

JMHO

NurseGirl525, ASN, RN · Apr 22, 2016

Well then, just quit. The same advice I gave somebody else. Either you came this far to graduate and be a nurse, or you let outside forces make you quit. It's your money, your time, not ours. You decide where you go from here. Life is not fair, not just. It's how you handle it that counts. Either you win and cry, and lose out, or you study your heart out and win. It's up to you.

moongirl90 · Apr 23, 2016

Is that HESI review/prep course (specifically written as "conducted by HESI staff" or some such way) written into some contract/admission agreement that you signed? Otherwise, it's just rumor or heresay or 'not worth the paper it's NOT written on'. They MIGHT owe OWE you some type of review/prep course or they may owe you some type of $ refund. But otherwise, you may need a lawyer to recoup anything.
JMHO

It's in the syllabus we signed and we received a packet about it first semester and even had half our orientation talking about this specific review and how amazing it is, and how it has helped their students so much in passing the Hesi.

I'm not looking for legal rewards or anything like that. I really don't care. I just want to be done with nursing school. I just am wondering more in terms of, the school has been unorganized every step of the way- not getting us our schedules until the DAY BEFORE class starts, forgetting to coordinate clinical with the hospitals leaving us missing out on important nursing experience (one of my clinical semesters for psych, I didn't even get to have clinical because it was poorly coordinated so our clinical was sitting in a room discussing psych with the prof which that was one of my areas of interest so I was extremely disappointed).. Bringing in papers for us to sign or quit (the program) essentially with random new policy updates (none of which have ever been anything good for the students) example being "you now need an 82 to pass a class instead of a 75" followed by a new favorite (sarcasm) "if you fail a class now, you must wait 2 years to re-enter the program", telling us to get the wrong titers (so everyone in the whole class basically blows $800 on titers that they didn't need and has to spend more to get the titers they do need but didn't get due to the school communicating the wrong ones), scheduling the hesi on the wrong day when the computer lab is in use and pushing us outside of the boundaries for the semester to take it...

Mostly I am wondering if once I exit the school, how could I best influence the organization and structure of the school in a POSITIVE WAY

amoLucia · Apr 23, 2016

One voice alone in the wilderness may not have much impact. But there is power in numbers. Your voice alone could be seen as a 'whiner' or a complainer' or one 'spouting sour grapes'.

Have there been any attempts by your nursing student body to address problems internally? It's like going up the chain-of-command as one would in any other work-type environment.

Does your school have a formal Student Grievance Committee? Alumni Assoc? And since the Nursing Dept DOES have to answer up its own chain, there is THEIR higher-upper people.

All your complaints must be accurate, verifiable and where poss, documented.

FWIW, I'd be careful until LONG AFTER I (you) graduated and had no further need of the school. It is hard to say this, but there are subtle ways that a school could sabotage you in retribution for being a 'rabble rouser'. Ie transcripts delayed being sent, documents being 'misplaced', inability to reach certain officials, etc.

If you just want to get it off your chest - if there were a way to do an 'exit interview' with someone from Public Relations (they do publicity for admission/recruitment) and Alumni (for endowments and donations) maybe they'd be interested if you could present your detailed concerns in a calm, dispassionate way. It doesn't sound like your Nsg Dept is too open to any criticism and remediation.