Get a life

I've heard that a million times, but it won't happen while you're in nursing school. I just read Student Nurse Jacks' blog. She is sick as a dog, but still dragged her ass to school. Isn't it ironic that a program training health proffesionals is the least tolerant of anyplace about absences? Got a sick kid? Tough shit. Got to go to court to help protect some abused kid? Tough shit. Got the flu and will infect every single person in your class? Tough shit for you and everyone else. We are allowed to miss 9.5 hours of clinicals. That's it. For the whole semester, and once you leave, you can't come back. If you go to the doctor, then go right on home, because as the program director said (in a sarcastic voice) "I'll just tell your patient, don't throw up right now, or fall out of bed, or deteriorate right this minute. Wait another hour or so and your nurse will be back. You can get sick then." This one really got me. We were doing skills, and I was in the first group to get checked out. The instructor said if we were done, we could leave. AFTER I left, she passed out homework assignments. Obviously, I didn't get it. When I said, "Hello, you passed them out AFTER you told me to go on home. What's up with that?" She admitted that is what happened, and then told me there was no makeup on homework, but she'd give me a copy of it and I could do it so I'll have it in case it shows up on a test. WTF!!!