Tweak
RCTalk Addict
My wife, Lena is currently attending nursing school at a specialty institution here in Houston. She has been in nursing school for three years now, and is gradutaing next year. Throughout her schoolday, she has several different classes she must attend, and on Fridays, the worst class of all comes around- Her "Clinical"
Ok, Now I will get to the point. Lena attends clinical every friday. The Clinical is esentially a day wherin a nursing student acompanies a nurse around for the day, helping him/her with whatever they may need, Giving medications and other small tasks. One Teacher- in this case she will be Ms. X instructs and cordinates the actions of up to thirty individual students. Now, Ms. X does not necesarily have a great reputaion around the campus. She s often rash, rude and overbearing. Allthough some may attribute this to "tough love" or the fact that the students learn better, she is still a very crude person none-the-less.
This Friday, Lena was in her clinical and got asked to answer a question. unfortunately she answered incorrectly, and was reprimanded and told the correct answer. This friday however, happend to be a special day. On this day, Select students from the freshman nursing class were attending the clinicals, as well as eating lunch with the instrutors. Now, the problem is Ms. X and another instructor got into a conversation about the progress of the class Ms. X teaches during lunch. The younger student was privvy to the conversation and overheard ms. X talking extremely rudely about several students in the class, including my wife. not only does this implicate a breach of confedintiality, but also would classify as slander IMO.
Now the main question comes along. Lena of course, got wind of what had happened this evening and asked ME what she could do. Her and several other students are very angry at this teachers actions, while none are big on "going over someones head" and taking the matter up a level to, you got it- The president of the school in Denton, Texas. What can she do? there seems to be no way to simply solve the matter with the instructor, as the same thing has happened before. She feels this will be a kind of David and Goliath encounter. Is there any possible way to solve a situation like this without stepping on the wrong toes?
Ok, Now I will get to the point. Lena attends clinical every friday. The Clinical is esentially a day wherin a nursing student acompanies a nurse around for the day, helping him/her with whatever they may need, Giving medications and other small tasks. One Teacher- in this case she will be Ms. X instructs and cordinates the actions of up to thirty individual students. Now, Ms. X does not necesarily have a great reputaion around the campus. She s often rash, rude and overbearing. Allthough some may attribute this to "tough love" or the fact that the students learn better, she is still a very crude person none-the-less.
This Friday, Lena was in her clinical and got asked to answer a question. unfortunately she answered incorrectly, and was reprimanded and told the correct answer. This friday however, happend to be a special day. On this day, Select students from the freshman nursing class were attending the clinicals, as well as eating lunch with the instrutors. Now, the problem is Ms. X and another instructor got into a conversation about the progress of the class Ms. X teaches during lunch. The younger student was privvy to the conversation and overheard ms. X talking extremely rudely about several students in the class, including my wife. not only does this implicate a breach of confedintiality, but also would classify as slander IMO.
Now the main question comes along. Lena of course, got wind of what had happened this evening and asked ME what she could do. Her and several other students are very angry at this teachers actions, while none are big on "going over someones head" and taking the matter up a level to, you got it- The president of the school in Denton, Texas. What can she do? there seems to be no way to simply solve the matter with the instructor, as the same thing has happened before. She feels this will be a kind of David and Goliath encounter. Is there any possible way to solve a situation like this without stepping on the wrong toes?
at for 18 years will do that...
