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Wakanda's Wrld
Nursing School Nightmares: Social Media Mistakes and Career-Ending Decisions
The dangerous intersection of nursing careers and social media takes center stage as we examine how thoughtless posts can destroy years of hard work in seconds. We begin with a cautionary tale of a nursing student expelled for complaining about an instructor online - a stark reminder that social media policies exist for a reason, and proper channels should always be used to resolve conflicts.
Diving into the ongoing NCLEX pass rate debate, we separate fact from fiction by examining the current data: RN pass rates stand at 88.6% and LPN rates at 85.9%. This contradicts claims of dramatically falling standards and opens an important conversation about the complex relationship between teaching and learning in nursing education. The challenges facing both instructors (understaffing, heavy workloads) and students (family responsibilities, program structures) create a perfect storm where success requires extraordinary commitment from all parties.
The most troubling trend emerges when we explore nurses creating content while on duty. From the nurse fired for making reels during work hours to another who inappropriately reconstituted medication for social media views, these stories highlight a dangerous prioritization of clicks over patient care. The message couldn't be clearer: your nursing license represents years of sacrifice and hard work - don't hand it back to the board of nursing for a moment of social media fame.
For those determined to create nursing content, there are safer alternatives. Green screens, home filming, and creative approaches can help share your nursing journey without compromising professional standards or patient care. Remember that while viral moments fade quickly, the consequences of poor judgment can permanently alter your professional trajectory.
What boundaries do you set between your nursing career and social media presence? Have you witnessed colleagues making these mistakes? Share your experiences and join this crucial conversation about protecting what matters most in our profession.
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Welcome in, welcome in. Come to a friend with your Wakanda or in. I got a lot on my mind, but I'm not here to waste your time. Let's get into it, man. So, right off the bat, man, I would like to talk about a student nurse that was released from their nursing program due to social media. So let's see if we can get it up. Let's get it pulled up real quick. There we go.
Speaker 2:Another nursing student gets released from their program because of something they posted about an instructor on social media. I would have loved to have seen the original video so that I can give more of an informed opinion, but the page is privated, so I only saw a stitch. A lot of people felt like it was unfair and, in case you're new here, I too have been a victim of unjust treatment while in nursing school. However, what my instructor did was clearly against their own policy, so I went straight to the director of the program and, needless to say, I finished my RN program, but I do want to say this, as much as people might feel like it was unfair OK, I mean it kind of goes on, let's come back, let's come back.
Speaker 1:So first things first. So you know, when you so apparently the nursing student got released from the program for posting on their social media complaining about an instructor. Now, so the person who originally posted about this, the page is privated. I'm sure they're probably not receiving the best comments. This, the patient's privated. I'm sure they're probably not receiving the best comments, so that's probably why it's privated. However, kind of what this young lady was saying, let me go ahead and add to that If you have a problem so if you're a nursing student and you're listening to this if you have a problem with your instructor, do not go to social media to complain about your instructor.
Speaker 1:What you should do is schedule a meeting with your instructor or get a third party involved to have a meeting with your instructor to work out any problems, problems or differences that you two may have, because a lot of programs have a social media policy. When you apply to that nursing program, when you sign all these documents and you got to go to orientation and all that, you remember that. So there's probably a social media policy that you probably missed. So go over your social media policy and don't complain about your instructor online. Now I would say, don't complain at all. But, however, we're human in that regard. So find your close friend, you know, get a journal, go for a walk, do something different, because guess what? You didn't pay all that money, that time and attention and it just went down the drain and you have nothing to show for it. So we need to have a little bit of common sense here. Ok, a little bit of common sense goes a long way. When you got a problem with someone, the last thing you should really do is go to social media. So let's keep that in mind, ok. So yeah, that's right off the bat. Right off the bat. We just starting off with that. So let me know that y'all, let me know in the comments what you think about that. If you're a nursing student or if you graduated from nursing school and you've had a problem with the instructor, let me know in the comments below your experience what happened and what did you do to resolve the issue.
Speaker 1:All right, so, okay, so a big thing I saw this past week. We're talking about NCLEX pass rates and then the debate regarding that. Dr Nurse Proctor came out and talked about how that NCLEX pass rates were, like, you know, all time low and they're in the 70s and all this stuff, right, how low NCLEX pass rates are. And so that got me kind of wondering. You know, I was going through the comments and kind of seeing what people were saying and, kind of my own research, I was like, ok, what are the NCLEX pass rates? What I could find, ladies and gentlemen, I couldn't find anything in the 70s. So if you guys want to see a little bit what I saw, I mean, according to osmosisorg, if you're watching this right now you can see the screen. But let's just talk about what I have right now in front of me.
Speaker 1:Okay, I have for NCLEX RN, the pass rate is 88.6. We're not near 70s. And then for PN practical nurses or LPNs we have 85.9. Now the year prior for PNs it was 79.1. But then for the RN side you have 91.2. So that's still pretty good. So, especially for the RN side, because last year was the highest it's been for the past five years. The PN this year in terms, I mean we still have a little bit to go in 2025, but PN is high or pretty good compared to the last five years as well. So I'm not quite sure where that came from. To be honest with you guys, I'm really not sure. Sorry y'all, sorry, sorry, sorry. So I'm not quite sure where that came from. However, we're here, right, so you're listening, so you know we're here. Let's talk about it a little bit. We're here, right, so you're listening, so you know we're here. Let's talk about it a little bit.
Speaker 1:Oh, people got into the comments and they were just going back and forth about why are pass rates so low. So some of the comments that I saw. Well, this lady was really putting the blame on students. She put the blame towards students Not attentive, they can't critically think, some of them are cheating and you know ETC. So a lot of blame was put towards the students. And then I saw people who've commented and they're nurses now and they put the blame towards teachers. So some of the blame for teachers is they don't know the material themselves, they're just teaching straight out of the book. Um, or students have to just quote, unquote, teach themselves, and then. So that was sparking a lot of debate back and forth and, of course, people's feelings get involved, biases get involved.
Speaker 1:So what, what? What are some potential? What does it really boil down to what is really going on with students and pass rates. Well, we all know it's pretty much a marriage. You need to have the students who are willing to be taught and then you got to have teachers that are willing to teach. It's a real simple formula, but really it's more complex than that, apparently, because if you have attentive students, you have students that are willing to learn, then it can make for an easier teaching process.
Speaker 1:But we often know this is not always the case. We see problems with teaching. Everywhere you turn on the news you're going to hear something or see something about a teacher or a student. There's going to be some issues, whatever a teacher or a student, there's going to be some issues, whatever. So let's talk about it on both sides very, very briefly, because I don't think this is a one-sided issue. I think this is a complex issue. So let's go on the side of teachers.
Speaker 1:So if you turn on the news whatsoever, you know that there is a teaching shortage. There is a teaching shortage, right, and we often, we often know that teachers don't get paid very well. They don't. So to me, if you look at any market, if you want the best of the best, you need to pay for the best of the best. Some people really would teach because they have a heart for it, they have a strong desire to teach, they want to teach the next generation. So sometimes you get people who want to do well but maybe they're not the best person for the job, but sometimes they do the best they can.
Speaker 1:So what happens if you come into a situation you're shorthanded, so you kind of take on a bigger burden compared to if you actually have properly staffed instructors so that you could double down on assignments. I mean you could be double down on clinicals. I mean you could be really, really stretched in and not give the best that you can to your students because you have extra responsibilities. But it's a large, large load for these instructors. It is difficult. I mean teaching itself is difficult. I can only imagine trying to teach a full program, a full-time program, which we'll come back to, that full-time traditional program. That itself can be very difficult. Could be hard for a flex program too. Not going to take away from that, we'll come back to that as well. So from the teacher side of things, I could see where there's some difficulties.
Speaker 1:Also, too, I can't imagine teaching where AI exists. We're still in the beginning stages of what AI can do in terms of information. I think AI has better uses in terms of what it can actually do. I honestly believe that AI has greater use in terms of maybe creating quizzes or test banks or things like that. Right, it's just looking up the answer, and I think AI can kind of get us close to the ballpark, but not exactly where we need to get to. So I can only imagine teaching in today's day and age when you're having to deal with that. So that in itself is a problem.
Speaker 1:And then we're not even talking about the other social issues that come from, depending on where you are, where you're located, and having to teach a lot of different groups. I mean I can only imagine. I really really can't. And then on the student side, I mean, to be honest, you know we're having people stepping up wanting to become nurses and get into programs and things like that. However, I mean, depending on your area I mean I don't know if this applies for everyone, but I mean depending on where you're located there's a lot of single parents that's trying to single mothers that's trying to become nurses, and so that dynamic can be very, very difficult on them as well to still try to raise kids and still go into a full-time program. Very, very difficult. People have done it, they've overcome.
Speaker 1:But I can imagine the complexities regarding that and I've said it multiple times. You've listened to me, you follow my content. I've said what can go wrong, will go wrong within a nursing program. That's just the way that it goes. I don't know why I didn't write the rules. That's just the way that it is. You sign into a nursing program, something's going to go wrong, or a lot of things will go wrong, and very quickly, might I add.
Speaker 1:So just dealing with the student aspect, and then I've heard people talk about how you know their classmates are trying to stab them in the back, or they're you know. There's also the beginning of the Mean Girls Club that's really prevalent within nursing, but it starts within nursing school, within its you know, nursing school. So there's a lot of factors regarding of why it's difficult for the students. And then we're not even talking about traditional versus hybrid. So some people in the comments did not understand this and before I really insult their intelligence, I will say you need to educate yourself, because what the students mean when they say that they have to teach themselves. A lot of them are referring to a hybrid program will say you need to educate yourself.
Speaker 1:Because what the students mean when they tell you that they have to teach themselves, a lot of them are referring to a hybrid program, to where they have to show up to campus X amount of hours per week, but they don't have to go every single day. They have to show up on certain days, right. And then some programs require you to actually kind of like clock in and out to keep track of your hours and then there's only certain days where instructors are teaching. So you have a hybrid program where you're there some days but you're not there every day, to where you know some people can still work or still try to take care of their kids or whatever is going on. So you have that hybrid program versus your traditional program where you're going pretty much five days a week, maybe six, seven, eight hours a day. You have instructors that are teaching you pretty much all the time. Your instructors are right there all the time.
Speaker 1:So I came from a traditional program in terms of my PN or LPN and then I was part of a hybrid program with RN school. So I've been part of both. So, yes, depending on where you are, where you're located, your school, etc all these factors depending on you know, if you have a traditional or a hybrid program. So, with that being said, some people traditional is better, some people hybrid is better. It depends on each individual situation. So I think the combination of why the pass rates potentially could be low is also this as well. We have next generation in terms of the NCLEX tests. Now, excuse me if I didn't explain this before. The NCLEX is your state licensure exam, so this determines whether or not you become an actual nurse. So you take your NCLEX and you're able to work within your particular state. If you apply for a single state license or if you apply for a multi-state, you're able to work in multiple states depending on what compact, compact license you know, your state's a part of.
Speaker 1:So you know this depends. But however, with that being said, you know that is the NCLEX. So I'm not sure where all this is stemming from, what the big problem is, because I can see right now the NCLEX pass rates are OK. There's going to be debates over the next few years. I've seen people talk about, I guess, some states have lowered their standards in order to try to get more nurses within the field. I've seen things like that to try to meet the nursing shortage. I'm just speaking what other states have done. I know some of you comments are going to be like what nursing shortage? I'm not here to debate that this time. So yeah, I don't know, man. So I do feel bad. Listen, if you live in Florida and you're listening to this, I do feel bad for you because nationally you have the lowest NCLEX pass rates and Florida has the most shenanigans going on. I don't know what it is with Florida, but you guys have had, I don't know, fake nurses that they've graduated from programs that are not accredited and it went on to work as a nurse without passing their boards accredited and it went on to work as a nurse without passing their boards. So I don't know if that's part of the reason, what, but Florida, you guys, I don't know, there's always something going on in Florida in that regard.
Speaker 1:But if you're listening to this, let me know in the comments, let me know in the comments below. Were you a first time NCLEX passer? Are you prepared to take your NCLEX? If you're listening, you haven't taken it yet. Are you scared? I can hook you up. I can hook you up. I know you know an NCLEX coach.
Speaker 1:So if you want some help, want some resources, just let me hit me up and let me know, let me know, let me know. Okay, y'all, so slap my own mic. It is what it is. That's just what I'm about to say. It made me do that. All right, let me do that. So recently there was a nurse that was fired for posting reels at work. So let me rephrase that this nurse was fired for making reels at work while she was on the clock, ok, so, and I'm sure, if you are just a general listener, if you're in health care, not in health care, I'm sure, one way or another, you have probably seen a nurse TikTok.
Speaker 1:But you probably see maybe a physical therapy TikTok, maybe a doctor TikTok. You probably see a nurse more than anything make a TikTok. You probably have, and it's probably why they're on the clock. Now the thing is, if you listen to me, I have made this known so many times Please do not make content while you are on the clock unless your facility gives you permission, unless they are promoting you and want you to do this, maybe hoping that they will improve their image. Maybe they'll use it as a recruitment tool. I am not sure. However, if they want you to, by all means go for it.
Speaker 1:But there's so many nurses that I have seen, or CNAs or whatever, that have made content without permission and then they get sad or mad, or they're upset because they got let go, or mad, or that they're upset because they got let go. Now, this particular person that I saw that she had posted you know she had posted a TikTok that said paraphrasing she talked about how, oh, she got let go for making reels at work when other people still make reels at her job. But it's okay, god still got me with another job. So I would think the lesson would be learned. Right, you would go to. You know that. That's good. I'm happy man. You got blessed to have another job. The question is did you learn? The question is, did you learn from your mistakes? Did you understand why you got fired and are you going to do that at your next job? That begs the question, right, begs the question.
Speaker 1:Now, I had made a video earlier in the year talking about how this same particular nurse had reconstituted medication. She took medication, so she had an antibiotic, and you got to reconstitute it. So you got medication, you got your saline, you got a saline bag and then you got the medication that's attached to a bottle. So you have to pop that bottle and try to shake up that medication, to try to get it to mix up properly, and so that's what you normally do, normally use it with your hands. Well, this particular person decided to use her backside and decided to use her backside, decided to use her butt and twerking to reconstitute or shake the medication for clicks and views.
Speaker 1:Now, I didn't say this Now, granted. Well, let me tell you something. So, when you make content, normally you're following when you post it, because really, when you post content, it is your own world. Like you can control your comments. You can control, you know. You can turn off comments, leave them on, turn them on, delete people, block people. So I mean you can't control pretty much your environment, right.
Speaker 1:But this, but this particular individual, what she chose, I mean there's people who thought it was funny and had a good laugh and thought it was cute and all this other stuff. You know, people was asking about the scrubs. You know what brand are they? All kind of stuff. So I mean, I posted the video, which was not able to be shared on all platforms because, you know, some people you know said it violated guidelines, right.
Speaker 1:However, you know, I had people that were in healthcare and people who were patients quote, unquote patients and they found it repulsive, they found it disgusting and they didn't enjoy that. And they, they didn't. They didn't enjoy that and, to be honest, I got to support that. I got to support what the patients are saying. I got to support what my other peers are saying. I'm like I mean this, this isn't cool. Like, if you've watched me, I will support nurses. If nurses do right, I will back nurses when they do right. Or if they've been done wrong, if they truly been done wrong, I will back nurses when they do right. Or if they've been done wrong, if they've truly been done wrong, I will back nurses, but when nurses do ridiculous stuff like this, I'm not going to support you. I don't support all nurses, I can't.
Speaker 1:Some of the stuff that y'all do are flat out ridiculous, and I don't know if it's a pity party. I don't know if people are desperate, I don't know what it is man for clicks, views, whatever. Don't know if people are desperate, I don't know what it is. Man for, clicks, views, whatever. There's some people like go do crazy stuff at work for content and other people will praise it. I'm like. I'm like I can't do that. I can't do it, won't do, it, can't. I absolutely will not, absolutely, will not, absolutely cannot. Um, shout out to the nurses and people who make content while they're not at work. There's listen, it can't be done. I know so, listen, there's so. There's so many people, especially my Gen Z population, there's so many of y'all, and even some of my millennials. So many of y'all think that you can only make content at work, and that is not true. You can green screen content. You can make content in the confinements of your own home. I mean you can literally. I mean some of you, depending on where you're at, you can rent out a studio space wherever man Like you do not have to hit record while you are at work. I know it seems convenient. You want to post up your phone within the med room while you're going through medications and stuff like that. I mean you want to show people what you do the day in the life of a nurse in terms of just breaking HIPAA and all this other stuff. Don't do that man.
Speaker 1:Earlier in the video I talked about NCLEX. Earlier in the video I talked a little bit in this particular episode I talked about nursing school, but just barely. Nursing school is hard. Nursing school is hard. Nursing school is hard. Trying to get to your NCLEX and pass it. That is a huge accomplishment. It's a huge accomplishment to walk across the stage and to get your diploma or your certificate, wherever it's at. It's a huge accomplishment to take the NCLEX and pass it. Whether it's your first time, second time or third time you pass the NCLEX and pass it. Whether it's your first time, second time or third time you pass the NCLEX, the last thing that you want to do is to literally hand your license back over to your board of nursing. That is the last thing that you should want to do is to hand over that license because you worked hard for your license. Please protect your license. Please protect your license.
Speaker 1:It's serious man, like some of y'all I'm. It's serious man Like some of y'all. I'm going to be honest man. Some of you will literally look at somebody who may look like you, they may dress like you, you may like their aesthetic and you want to be like them. But I'm here to tell you if you want to mimic somebody, that is cool. But you need to mimic somebody safely, that is cool. But you need to mimic somebody safely Because, let me tell you something ain't nobody going to have your back.
Speaker 1:Your facility ain't going to have your back. The general public's not going to have your back. Nobody's going to have your back. So you got to protect you. So let's get better at protecting ourselves. Let's get better. Is it me? Is it me? Y'all gotta let me know. But surely it's not me. Am I tripping? And all these people that make content? They gonna do this, they gonna do that, making content. Come on, man, is it me? Please let me know, please, please, please, let me know, let me know, please, please, please, let me know. Let me know in the comments below All right, y'all All right, y'all so listen.
Speaker 1:So earlier in the episode we talked about a student nurse that's released from their program for posting on social media complaining about the instructor. So we talked about it. We cannot do that. We cannot do that. You got problems with the instructor. So we talked about it. We cannot do that. We cannot do that. You got problems with your instructor. You need to go through the proper channels and you need to handle that situation with dignity and respect, man, because you can't just become. You can't. I know it's so easy to hit sin, but you cannot just go on social media and complain about your instructor. Please do not do that, ok?
Speaker 1:So we also talked about the NCLEX pass rates debate. We talked about students side a little bit. We talked about the teacher side a little bit, which I love people to chime in on both sides because I would love to hear more about that. But there's varying factors. There's various factors we talked about from the instructor side. I mean they're shorthanded Right. They meant to pick up extra duties, extra roles. You know what I'm saying. They may have to. You know they may. Maybe they can't teach the way that they want to teach, but they have to go off of an outline that what they're required to teach. And also, too, man, the teachers are not teaching y'all to be nurses. Shout out to the ones who go above and beyond, because that's what you're going to have to do, because you already have your course material that you're going to have to teach. But shout out to the ones who are not just teaching y'all to pass the NCLEX, but those who are also trying to prepare you to become an actual nurse. So shout out to them.
Speaker 1:So we talked about the teacher side, but also the student side as well. It can be difficult. What can go wrong will go wrong within nursing school. We talk about people who, you know, raising kids while still trying to go to a full-time program single mothers. You know what I'm saying. We talked about the difference between a hybrid and a traditional program. You know what I'm saying. So the differences between those and how one may be more beneficial than the other, depending on your individual situation.
Speaker 1:We talked about the rise of AI and how students may be more tempted to use AI because they can just look up the answers when reality, because AI is still in its infant stages, then we need to be careful on how we use AI in terms of our coursework. We got to be very, very careful. We got to use critical thinking in that regard, right? So you know we're talking about the NCLEX passphrase debates. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:We talked about a nurse that was fired for posting reels and recording at work. We just talked about that. You know what I'm saying. You got to be smart. You can't just record at work, post reels, and then be surprised you get let go. You know what I'm saying, because what we don't want is, while you're recording, there's an actual emergency going on, or a patient may have fallen while you was recording at work and that situation could have been prevented. Because they need your focus, they need your attention, man. They need you to, to need you, right. So we talked about all that. You know I'm saying. That's where we're at now.
Speaker 1:Let me know in the comments below what you think about this episode, man. What do you think about this episode? What do you think about the causing what? What do you think about what we talked about today? You know what I'm saying. Is it prevalent to you? Do you like it? Do you want to see more of it, less of it? Let me know in the comments below. But thank you for tuning in with your Wakanda RN. I love you guys. I hope you have a blessed rest of the week and I
