Lesko Again?

Last year at this time, I had a instructor who seemed hell bent on making the students' lives miserable. This year, same thing, different instructor. This one is disrespectful, catty, and talks to students as if they are red-headed stepchildren. (no offense meant to anyone red-headed or a stepchild or both) I'm beginning to wonder if its just not the culture of nursing school. The older the teachers are, the worse they become. She's even sunk to insulting a person's upbringing in front of their peers and the RN's. As this semester drags on, I feel even more that I am wasting my time with these people. Turning the other cheek accomplishes only that we receive more verbal abuse, and subtle admonitions in the anecdotal notes makes me passive/aggressive. I wrote the administrator of the program today, and I'm waiting to see her reaction. I must admit, however, I have little hope for all of this. Nursing may have been a very expensive mistake. We shall see, though.

Part II

I received my anecdotal for last week today and I obviously seriously pissed off the instructor. I tried my best to apologize for any mistakes I may have made, and all I got in return was venom and anger. Oh, and a meeting with administration on Monday. It may be the end of Nursing school for me, but I'm prepared for that. I'm no longer attached to the idea of being a nurse, so if I am asked to leave, or I find it's time to make that decision myself, I'm gonna be OK with that.

Namaste'

Discrimination?

When I first started this blog, I wrote an entry regarding being a male nurse and some of the "stuff" that goes along with it. I also wrote that I had not experienced for myself any of those things. In the meantime, I've talked to a number of graduates of the school I am attending, and most of them (women included) say that it is full of "men-haters" (their words, not mine). At first I was inclined to pass it off as just people talking, but the longer I'm there, the more I see it. Instructors that barely recognize I exist, much less have any respect for me. RN's in the clinical setting that OBVIOUSLY have no use for men in general, much less as nurses. (Labor & delivery) It makes me wonder about the wisdom in choosing to try and make it in this most noble and compassionate of professions. I've seen that female RN's are (only some are, the majority aren't) catty, backstabbers, and would take any opportunity to make your life miserable. I will continue my quest nonetheless. There is little I can do for those who choose to cause suffering instead of relieving it, and only control my reactions and what I do. I continue to pray for those people that they may see the effect they have, and that they find it in them to stop. Me, I'll keep trying to make this work out.

Namaste'