I'm in nursing school and we are almost finished. We graduate May 1st. Since day one our teachers count how many hours each of us is here, we have to sign this paper every 60 minutes proving that we are in class because the state won't let us take our boards (which we have to pass in order to actually become a nurse) unless we have a certain amount of hours. Therefore, you can only miss a certain amount of hours before you get kicked out of the program, and no matter how much the teachers want you to stay, it is not up to them. Because my immune system isn't the greatest and I've had family issues, I have missed the majority of the hours allowed and now can only afford to miss 5 hours before getting kicked out. This means that if I get sick and have to miss an entire clinical day, I'm done for and the past year has been a waste to me.
There are only 23 people in our class now and we spend 32 hours a week together between 2 8 hour lecture days and 2 8 hour clinical days in the hospital.
There is this one girl in my clinical group who was sick last week during clinicals and she came to clinicals still, just some sort of cold. Keep in mind that we are working with sick people in the hospital who's immune systems are compromised. I was sort of bothered by the fact that she showed up to clinicals, not only because of patients but because theres only 8 people in my clinical group and some people (like me) can't afford to get sick. It was selfish. I chose not to get too close to her or touch things she touched.
Then yesterday she put on Facebook that her son has pink eye and that now she has it. Today she actually showed up to class! You can tell her eyes are pink-red and watery. When someone asked what it was she said it was allergies! I am so pissed off! Pink eye is so contagious and its incredibly selfish of her to come to class. We are spending 8.5 hours with her today, touching the same stuff she does after she is noticeably touching her face. I know it is going to spread to someone and then they're going to spread it and so on and I am terrified I will get it. If I go to clinicals with pink eye there is no way my instructor wouldn't send me home. I really want to tell the instructor but the person that has pink eye is a suck up teachers pet and i feel as though the teachers would just tell her to not touch everything since it is just lecture today and tomorrow. I also of course don't want to tattle.
It's not that Im scared of germs or anything because I would for sure be in the wrong field if that was the case! But we have all learned about how contagious it is and I literally can't afford to miss a clinical day, I think its incredibly selfish of her because she rarely missed class and can afford to have stayed home today. I would just hate that I am about 1 month from graduation and it could all be ruined because of a selfish pink eyed girl. Ugh. Anyways, just felt I needed to vent to someone because I was steaming up inside. That is all
There are only 23 people in our class now and we spend 32 hours a week together between 2 8 hour lecture days and 2 8 hour clinical days in the hospital.
There is this one girl in my clinical group who was sick last week during clinicals and she came to clinicals still, just some sort of cold. Keep in mind that we are working with sick people in the hospital who's immune systems are compromised. I was sort of bothered by the fact that she showed up to clinicals, not only because of patients but because theres only 8 people in my clinical group and some people (like me) can't afford to get sick. It was selfish. I chose not to get too close to her or touch things she touched.
Then yesterday she put on Facebook that her son has pink eye and that now she has it. Today she actually showed up to class! You can tell her eyes are pink-red and watery. When someone asked what it was she said it was allergies! I am so pissed off! Pink eye is so contagious and its incredibly selfish of her to come to class. We are spending 8.5 hours with her today, touching the same stuff she does after she is noticeably touching her face. I know it is going to spread to someone and then they're going to spread it and so on and I am terrified I will get it. If I go to clinicals with pink eye there is no way my instructor wouldn't send me home. I really want to tell the instructor but the person that has pink eye is a suck up teachers pet and i feel as though the teachers would just tell her to not touch everything since it is just lecture today and tomorrow. I also of course don't want to tattle.
It's not that Im scared of germs or anything because I would for sure be in the wrong field if that was the case! But we have all learned about how contagious it is and I literally can't afford to miss a clinical day, I think its incredibly selfish of her because she rarely missed class and can afford to have stayed home today. I would just hate that I am about 1 month from graduation and it could all be ruined because of a selfish pink eyed girl. Ugh. Anyways, just felt I needed to vent to someone because I was steaming up inside. That is all