Pissed at instructor

[Robert F]

I remember the stresses of Motlow. It was seven days a week, and whenever you had a clinical, you were required to report to the clinical site the day before to review your patient's chart and meet him/her; even if the clinical was 200 miles away(which some were). I was an EMT-IV at the time; so other than IV therapy, dual lumen intubations(Combitube/PtL), I didnt have much experience in advanced procedures, so I was in the same boat as everyone else--a noobie, if you will. Clinical instructors were relentless, as were the lecture professors(especially during test times). There was a dosage calculation exam at the beginning of every class, which you had to pass or else you were not allowed to sit in class for the remainder, and had to make up the study at your own discretion. However, clinical agencies still brag to this day that Motlow nurses are some of the most well prepared students they have seen. Motlow had a 98% success rate on the NCLEX last year, 99% before that, and 97% the year before that, helping TN to acheive the title as the highest NCLEX pass rate in the nation as of this year. Was it worth it? You bet. (btw sorry for the little hiatus; I haven't posted in quite some time as practitioner school is getting rougher.)

[JennyP]

I'll probably get flamed for saying this; but nursing isn't easy and when you are caring for patients, there aren't any easy answers. No one will spoonfeed you the correct answers of how to care for a crashing patient before the docs get there; it's up to you to know how to assess and prevent further problems before they happen.

I know that nursing school is tough; but buckle down and study hard and you will get through it. This instructor may be doing you a favor by making you think about what you are studying and figure out what is pertinent and what isn't.

There isn't a Power Point in the world that will help you when you're an RN out on the floors with a full load of patients, trying to juggle everything (patients, families, MDs and schedules) hitting you at the same time.

I'm old (or "seasoned," if you prefer that term), and I remember spending WAY too much time in the library trying to find the answers for study questions that weren't even in our text books. Our instructors told us repeatedly that patients don't follow any sort of "average" or "normal" ideals; so we had to think of them as individuals and learn to think for ourselves.

To this day whenever I think about nursing school, it triggers memories of the musty old library smells from back then!

[kormakarma]

cumng

[orionseal]

She's making my nursing class way more difficult than it needs to be. The chapters in our text book are on average 60 pages long ,and she just reads the whole chapter from a power point ,and won't tell us what to know for the test. She basically just tells us to know the whole chapter inside and out because any question could be on it.

Every teacher I have besides her tells us what to specifically review in the chapter for the test.

plus she is refusing to give us a studyguide for the midterm! another thing that every teacher ,but her is doing.

Some good thaughts comming at ya from all sides here kiddo, but in your deffence I will say this.

"Those who can, DO. While those who can't, TEACH."

I had an instructor from hell too. She spent two years in O.B. and thirty years teaching Parent/Child Nursing.

She worked with a relative of mine who refused to speek of her because of what was thaught of her on the floor.

"And thats all I've got to say about that." (Forest Gump)

[tippy1977]

I had an instructor exactly like that. she would say we are adult learners so read and review everything. It is what it is.