School Rant

So, I thought this was uncool. Last night in class, the professor (who is not my advisor) took up class time to discuss, in front of class, my clinical issues (that I'm at a family practice where I'm seeing very few pedi patients even though I'm taking a pedi course). She mentioned in front of class that this probably means I can walk for graduation but there won't be a diploma in there and that I will most likely have to take an incomplete till I can finish it. She was even asking nitty gritty details like how many hours I've completed, how many of those were strictly pedi (which seems strange to me since my advisor put my in family practice which means I'm clearly not seeing just pedi patients).

I left feeling a little uncomfortable that my 'dirty laundry' was being aired during the middle of class. I think she was trying to be helpful and solicit ideas from other classmates about potential placements or preceptors but I thought it was strange to take up class time to drill me on my clincal progression.

My advisor, who is the head of the FNP program, has not suggested to me that the hours I'm doing at the family practice do not count nor that I will not graduate on time. I emailed her this morning to tell her I was a little uncomfortable with how things went down and to ask if there is any validity to this because I'm thiiiis close to sending in my preliminary application for testing. You have to list the date that your degree is to be conferred (June 4 I think) which will be thrown off if I end up graduating late. Also, I don't have the luxury of time. I finish my clinicals in mid May, plan to study for the test for the rest of May and June, take the test June/early July, have the baby. There's no room for this to be dragging on endlessly!