Nursing Student Fails Class Twice - Now Suing University...

That woman is not equipped to be a nurse.

Period.

Another example of someone who can't take responsibility.

My dd is going to college and majoring in nursing. She had to take anatomy her first or second year before she even started the nursing program. One of her classmates thought that watching "Grey's Anatomy" on TV would be sufficient studying. Needless to say, she failed. So she transferred to another college that has an "easier" nursing program. Hope I'm never her patient!

I know someone who is in a similar situation....he has a low IQ, anxiety and personality disorders, poor social skills and other issues. He is going to college for Geography and is an older student. He has accomodations such as taking tests in quiet places, has note takers in class, goes to a place that helps you write papers, and has gotten a TON of extra time for assignments. He is always complaining that he isn't getting enough help. I personally feel that college is not a right, and that not everyone needs to or should go to college. At some point someone needs to tell him that it may not be right for him. I have very little doubt that he will have a hard time getting a job. For one thing, I would imagine that jobs in that field are not very common. Second, he does not present well and would have a hard time in an interview. If he did get a job, he would most likely have difficulty with the duties and social aspects of it. Will he feel that he is entitled to help at work as well? At what point do the accomodations become unreasonable? I think we will have more of this as time goes on due to the number of people who are on IEP's and have accomodations in school. They will think that those accomodations should follow them throughout their lives.

Oh my goodness! I would never want to receive medical care from her.

We all have limitations. It's time she recognized hers.

Oh man, can I just say that there is NO WAY I would want her to be my nurse!

Seriously, if a student cannot handle the course load to become a nurse (or doctor, lawyer, etc) they SHOULD NOT be given a way to make it easier for them to pass the class. The class is hard to help prepare them for the career - which is much harder, and potentially holds patients' lives in the balance.

So, if this woman eventually passes, and somehow becomes a nurse, what is going to happen when a real life or death scenario comes about and she has no "quiet, extra time" to figure out how to save her patient?

Her even being granted distraction-free environment is a huge dis-service to the future health and well being of her future patients. And discredits the abilities of the nursing field as a whole. I never want to question if a nurse is thoroughly capable of handling a situation under pressure. By legitimately becoming a nurse, passing all the rigors it takes to achieve that certification, that is my peace of mind.

No accommodations should be made. This is not elementary school. And not everyone is meant to be a nurse. This is not pee wee softball, and not everyone gets a certificate just for participation.

I've been a Registered Nurse for twenty years. If she can't handle nursing school without anxiety and stress, she certainly can't handle being a nurse. It's time for her to find a new career.

Maybe it was just as well that she found out now before she went anywhere near the patients.

Why are some people so deluded about their ability to cope with jobs that are clearly not suitable for them, both from the level of responsibility that is needed and academically?

I agree with just about everything posted. If you cannot hack nursing school, the last thing I want it you caring for me!

My thoughs exactly when I read the article yesterday

My university actually has pretty specific policies in terms of the formal process you use to seek accommodations and the kinds of accommodations that are available for things like clinically diagnosed anxiety. When I have students who want to be accommodated I have them go through that process because I don't pretend to be an expert on the ADA or required accommodation, and because there are people at the university who are paid to figure that stuff out. Most of the time I don't even know what accommodations have been provided for the students (when a student is being permitted to record classes, I do get informed about that), and when students with or without disabilities try to negotiate accommodations with me outside that process, my answer is no, as I don't think it is reasonable (I do make accommodations for some things -- deaths in the family, eg., mean that I will take students off of the call roster for a while -- because I am not an actual unfeeling horrible person).

I really wonder what happened here, since it sounds like the professor was crafting his or her own solution to the student's issues. I wouldn't feel comfortable doing that myself.

I will offer that professors are under a lot of pressure to pass students, and that "getting sued" is one reason why. I will also offer that while I am not someone who thinks these kids today are so much worse than they used to be, blah blah, they definitely expect a much higher frequency of communication and access to professors outside of class, and I have had to set up policies and boundaries that were not necessary twelve-ish years ago when I first started teaching.

I feel your pain, BTDT (student's success affecting my pay, crazy unattainable "improvements" being mandated, having to take ANYONE, being shut down on appropriate student placement, etc.).  Your last sentence. . . YES.  Plus parents who think their child deserves an A simply for existing.**  It's what's been happening in the lower levels for 10+ years

I salute all of you who are still hanging in . . .For many years, I swore I wouldn't be another teacher burnout, but my current district and state broke me   Bless every single one of you who's still toughing it out.

**I do know that there are many parents who are not like this (and thank you to all of you who aren't!), but the ones who are . . . they're multiplying, and they're getting more and more outrageous.

re:  the statement I bolded . . .  I would bet you big $ that many of these parents had been refusing SPED placement, and thus help and accommodations, for years and years.  Coming from the extreme other end (K and primary), I lost count of children whose parents refused testing and/or services because they didn't want their child 'labeled.'  Even while teaching Reading Recovery (which is NOT a sped placement .  . . it's just intense, one-on-one, highly specialized and individualized literacy instruction), it could be a huge ordeal to get parents to allow that.   Many parents would say things like "he/she has plenty of time to catch up."  They tell themselves this for years and years, and then BAM, reality finally hits these parents when the student is in high school, and they are forced to face the issues, and then they're scrambling.

And a huge, emphatic YES to your last statement.  

Our nursing dosages classes include the same simple types of equations that are absolutely vital for nurses to know, yet students couldn't understand why they had to get at least a 75 to pass the class. Seriously, who thinks that it's okay to calculate 1 out of 4 dosages incorrectly? Who wants to be cared for by a nurse who might give you the wrong thing 25%of the time? 

and it doesn't help any when administration caves in because they're afraid of bad press from student complaints. I wonder how much worse the bad press will be when an incompetent graduate kills someone by administering the wrong dosage of meds.