I am tired of the way nursing school is. I’m tired of this college and certain instructors having the mindset of “you should know this already” crap. My friend is in LPN first semester. She’s being asked things I don’t even know, that A students in her class don’t know, and things they haven’t even studied yet (maybe because they’ve been in nursing school 3 months and aren’t nurses period). I think this is BS. I would literally be a better teacher than several of these high knowledge instructors right now. Why? Well I don’t have sufficient education yet, and I would be learning what I’m teaching, but I’d be damned if I couldn’t put together a more effective lesson plan, spend more time with my students reviewing, studying, practicing, and helping them learn in a more relaxed fun environment whenever possible. They shouldn’t be so stressed every day just because of the teachers sheer presence. The teacher should be understanding and encouraging. Strong and unwavering, but definitely caring and not biased. Even tempered, not easily bothered etc…. I could go on and on.
If I had the LPN home room teacher she does I wouldn’t have made it. That means all those patients I took good care of and listened to, all those coworkers I covered for, and all those bosses I helped by showing up and doing a good job, would have been non existent experiences. Not to mention my own family benefiting greatly financially, and otherwise.
I am a good nurse but this college would have kicked me to the curb or I would have walked away with a terrible taste in my mouth for nursing. We have a severe shortage of nurses yet this college thinks it’s ok to fail half, or more, of just about every class for things like “not being able to put sterile gloves on properly after 3 extremely high stress attempts in front of the teacher and director of nursing at the college. WTH. To me that is teachable, that is a “do it until you get it right” moment. Not a “you fail and all your time and MONEY (thousands of dollars) are now lost and you can’t finish any of your classes even if you were doing well in them.” They say you have to come back and do it ALL over again, and, SHOCKINGLY, not many students come back or become nurses. All because their anxiety got the best of them on 1 fateful day.
This crippling computer program crutch, these high and mighty teachers, these rediculous standards, and this monopoly of nursing schools in this very huge area, among many other pit falls, disparities, and, yes, atrocities that this college has in perpetual motion certainly have me riled up.
Another wonderful attribute of a different instructor was brought to my attention this week. This instructor showed blatant bias and contempt for a seasoned LPN being in this program. He prefers these young high school students, who don’t know which way the sun rises, to be in the program vs old community LPN’s who might be a little rusty on certain skills, but have tons of field experience. Again, WTH. Who cares what people’s background is? How are they handling the here and now? Can they become good RN nurses. Maybe even ask if they care about people, or are they rude to every breathing creature? We have some FRESH HS girls and believe me I don’t know how they made it, but they are not mature not caring, and they have a superiority complex like I have not seen in a long time. I really can’t help but wonder if these girls will be good nurses and listen to patients and doctors or will they say “oh no you’re fine” and “Doctor you are not right” just a little too frequently. Common curtesy, kindness, and decency are majorly lacking here….. but these are the girls this college promotes and passes so they must be ideal nurses.
I have 5 proctored tests / quizzes this week and lots to do, yet I’m awake with my mind racing just thinking about this doomsday Tuesday my LPN friend has in front of her, and how I promised to help her through as much as I can. Tomorrow is a make or break day for her.
Stay tuned cause I might show my Gemini qualities.
I really need to hold it together and graduate though, because I need my BSN so that I can come back and be a homeroom LPN teacher one day.
Well I better get a few hours of sleep. We’ll get through this.
– Get through this
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