In other news, the Nursing Faculty wants to meet with our class to discuss how things can be improved for the class behind us. Not how to improve clinical, procedures or workload for us, but for people coming up behind us. I was on the committee last year and from what I can gather the first years appreciated the work that we did. That's great, but what about us? Apparently the class ahead of us did not voice concerns, and we are stuck with a badly planned second year experience. Let me outline my semester, the term starts and we have classes on Mondays and Wednesdays 8:30 to 4:00, we have approximately an hour and a have of free time during the day. For two weeks we have clinical labs all day on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. We start clinical institutional, Tuesday, Thursday and most Fridays of each week for 4 weeks. These are from 6:45am to 3:00 pm. Since my clinical is in chronic health and I am currently in Chronic health we have approximately 20 journal articles to read so that we have the required skills to provide competent care. I am enrolled in four other classes all with required work and readings. So far a normal, somewhat busy semester. Here's the problem, the faculty felt they would help us by making all of our term work due in October, yes two group term papers. At this point you may be thinking well that sounds hectic, but at least its group work, less work for all. Not true, we have no time so all the work is done the night before. October is also interspersed with midterms and CLATS. CLATS are how we a "graded" on our clinical. They take anywhere from 2 to 6 hours to complete, and very subjective. Oh did I mention the readings, one instructor assigned 15 chapters to be read before the mid tern. It was impossible to do all the required work, the readings were often left out. We tried to voice our concerns to the instructor's we were dismissed, some times verbal abused, and some people were marked as trouble makers. This is what lead up to the meeting yesterday, the second year coordinator was wondering why people from our class had not come forward to meet with the faculty. Hmm.. lets see, you don't listen, some of you are abusive and people who question you are trouble makers. Make sense? Now to be fair, not all of the instructors are like this, some are reasonable. One instructor even gave us an extension on one of the term papers. She is very understanding.
Anyway, that all I can write right now, I have a midterm tomorrow...
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