There is one instructro that does not answer emails. There was a complaint made, however the director came to the class and chewed us all out over it. I was in injection class and I had just finished highlighting a couple of things that were just discussed in class. The supervior singled me out, and said, “we are ready when you are” Now, I thought, I am an adult do not treat me like a child.

She then explained the nonresponsive email instructor has this medical condtion etc, she told the whole class the medical problems of that instructor. Is that not contrary to medical HIPPA rights?

You know when there is information not to be told, I wanted to plug my ears.

Yesterday, during the Pharm II exam, the same instructor-the director-was so mean and hateful. I just read in my Mental Health readings, that people who are abused when they are young will abuse others as they are older. I think this may be the case, because this director of the nursin program is on the verge of abusing anyone, and we all can tell that she is looking to fail one of us if not all of us.

Just right before the Pharm exam she also made the harsh comment that she got a telephone from someone inquiring about the accelerated online nursing course, and she told the whole class-with a harsh attitude, “no, I am not having the online accellerated course anymore, this is the LAST ONE!!! Now, just 15 min prorio to the exam, I was calm and ready to take the exam, and then she come in the room like a bull, and snorts, and everything. This was so wrong. But, do we dare say anything? NO, of course not.

The time she chewed us out in class-when she expelled the instructors medical condition, ( too much informaiton, know what I mean?) she told us that the prior online accelerated online nursing class, EVERYONE FAILED except one.

My gosh, I am wondering if I should have checked the pass/fail rate of the online accellerated nursing course before I committed. Maybe if other classes have failed, I would have thought this course to be a set-up for failure. Right?

I can only do my best, and avoid buriser when I see her coming. Nobody says anything to her, that is how bad it is. Yes, I know that taking care of a patient in the hospital is very serious, and I love to take care of people. And I am going to be a good nurse too!! It is just the demeanor of some of the instructors that are hampering students to do their best.

She has a smart answer for everything. We are adults, and we are being abused. I am a nontraditional student who just wants to be an LPN for now, and I would like to be treated with some respect. She is very humiliating, and that is abuse behavior. I feel that there is too much maladaptive bahavior manners of her.

Do I make a compaint? NO WAY!!!
One last final complaint. The clinical instructors let it out that she grades our care plans while she is intoxicated. ????????

Do we dare say anything? NO of course not. Just keep your mouth shut and get through it.

Tonight, I have an exam on 5 chapters-online, and these exams are rough. The material we have to read and remember is to the point of impossible, and there are 4 classes like this, this shortened semester.

So, just a great uplifting response from someone would be helpful.

thanks for your time and understanding.

Great post

Secondly, nurses who have fought so hard to achieve the level of skill and experience are rarely financially rewarded for it. Nursing pay scales are very flat in most institutions. Consequently, senior nurses may “guard” their status by berating others and questioning their judgment (often to other colleagues and physicians (who may, in turn, treat that nurse as less competent perpetuating the situation)).

I think the last major reason is, as you described, the seriousness of our task. When you have a variation in the level of focused professionalism, those who feel they are most representative of the ideal might mistreat others. Perhaps those who do not share their same style of care giving, work in a subacute or non-clinical role, do not possess a certain level of education or attend enough conferences, etc.

How do we change this behavior….as you suggested, we must consider, as one of our most important roles, being an ambassador for the profession in all we do. We each have to be the solution instead of the problem.

Phil details a little-discussed problem in the nursing profession – the attitude of nursing instructors in contributing to the nursing shortage….