Or Queen, in this case; since I am not, in fact, a man. Have not posted in a month for various reasons, chief among them that I am simply too exhausted by the mere thought of having to convey to my audience the level of frustration and hopelessness my Well-Respected Nursing Program has reached, to even make the attempt. Furthermore, nothing I have to say on the matter would be funny or probably even tactful, and social dogma dictates that if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.
However, duty calls. So, in homage to Edward Gorey and to prevent the list of faults from growing too tedious or verbose (traits I have surely never been accused of possessing...) here is, for your reading pleasure, The ABC's of my Well-Respected Nursing Program:
Aged faculty.
Being grossly out of touch with what other faculty members do.
Claiming to be an elite institution but not having a program worthy of the student body.
Delays in grading and providing clinical placements.
Excuses rather than solutions for the issues we present.
Failure to communicate.
Grouping us for hospital assignments without regard for geography.
Harboring personal vendettas against selected students.
Inadequate clinical placements and hours.
Just about anybody is allowed to be a lab instructor.
Keeping grades, and the methods by which they are calculated, from students.
Lack of qualified instructors.
Manipulation of grades by a select group of faculty.
No standardized system for grading, teaching, or assigning work.
Only one person in the entire college knows how to use a Scantron (test grading) machine.
Penalizing students for errors made by faculty.
Qualified instructors reneging on their contracts to teach at other schools.
Refusal to act on allegations of egregious cheating.
Subjective, unjust grading practices.
Total failure by faculty to comply with their own syllabi.
Using words that do not exist, when one is supposedly an educated medical professional.
Vague expectations that change continually.
Widespread chaos.
X. Sorry, there is no X. There have been no xylophone-related crimes in this program.
Yet.
Zero information on my clinical that starts in 3 days. An hour and a half away. At a prison.
However, duty calls. So, in homage to Edward Gorey and to prevent the list of faults from growing too tedious or verbose (traits I have surely never been accused of possessing...) here is, for your reading pleasure, The ABC's of my Well-Respected Nursing Program:
Aged faculty.
Being grossly out of touch with what other faculty members do.
Claiming to be an elite institution but not having a program worthy of the student body.
Delays in grading and providing clinical placements.
Excuses rather than solutions for the issues we present.
Failure to communicate.
Grouping us for hospital assignments without regard for geography.
Harboring personal vendettas against selected students.
Inadequate clinical placements and hours.
Just about anybody is allowed to be a lab instructor.
Keeping grades, and the methods by which they are calculated, from students.
Lack of qualified instructors.
Manipulation of grades by a select group of faculty.
No standardized system for grading, teaching, or assigning work.
Only one person in the entire college knows how to use a Scantron (test grading) machine.
Penalizing students for errors made by faculty.
Qualified instructors reneging on their contracts to teach at other schools.
Refusal to act on allegations of egregious cheating.
Subjective, unjust grading practices.
Total failure by faculty to comply with their own syllabi.
Using words that do not exist, when one is supposedly an educated medical professional.
Vague expectations that change continually.
Widespread chaos.
X. Sorry, there is no X. There have been no xylophone-related crimes in this program.
Yet.
Zero information on my clinical that starts in 3 days. An hour and a half away. At a prison.
1 comment:
This is true for other programs within your university. Trust me. Replace some of the nursing jargon with teaching terms, and you've got my Well Respected Teaching Program.
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