Hailey K.
1/5
The nursing school eats their young. If you have a disability, are chronically ill, heck I guess even if you get sick amidst a pandemic in general, don't expect to be accommodated. If you don't have mommy and daddy money to pay your way through school, don't expect them to understand the weight of being a full-time student and a full-time employee. They would rather you party every weekend if it means you're "devoted" to the program. Devoted in their eyes, meaning having no other obligations in life aside from school. Meanwhile, the ppl that aren't working are fooling around & less devoted than those trying to make a better living for themselves. Forget trying to be a high achiever they frown on those who want to someday serve in the military and repeatedly criticized my participation in AFROTC during my first year. If you miss their 77% exam average.. even by 0.03%.. your professors will not care. You will have to sit in front of a group of nursing school staff who will criticize you, make you cry, and insist you'll never do better and there's no way for you to be better despite having a very specific plan of how you will do better next semester. Then after they made you feel AWFUL. They'll call you and tell you congrats you're still in the program. Then when your life is falling apart the next semester and one thing after another keeps happening (catalytic converter was stolen, car was towed, my dog kept experiencing anaphylaxis due to living in mold, I was sick from living in mold and running myself so thin between work and school that I ended up hospitalized - ironically in the same hospital i did clinicals.) Maureen Moore will tell email you before you're ever even late to a make up clinical that you need to meet with her and you're absent even tho just that morning you woke up to your dogs face completely swollen and had to rush him to the vet and somehow still managed to make it on time. Then when you go to meet with her, despite all the Dr's notes in the world, she will insist that you're having a mental health crisis and that you need to take a break from the program.. back you into a corner, talk you in circles until you are crying and confused bc WHAT mental health crisis? The one that she caused by trying to force a change in what is supposed to be my future? Keep in mind that I was on high dose steroids from my breathing difficulties and my voice was so hoarse it was impossible for me to raise it at the time. She lied, accused me of calling her names 😂 said I was threatening to her and involved campus security to enforce that I would not be allowed to attend classes in person due to my unprofessional behavior 😒 I requested someone else be in the room bc I felt unsafe being backed into that corner, she kept gaslighting me. you know what I find unprofessional? First, forcing someone that is actively still struggling with a PHYSICAL illness to make up clinicals and secondly then accusing them of mental health issues due to previously conversations in which I confided in my academic team that I have ADHD 😂☠️ was told amongst this that there cannot be 100 Hailey's to accommodate. Meanwhile, Lewis is paying thousands of dollars in my scholarships and grants- which maureen was going to force my hand in having to pay those back if i stopped mid semester. Ultimately, lewis and the medical community will lose in this situation. I was a competent A and B nursing student and the nursing program's inability to have even an ounce of compassion caused me to, 4 weeks before the end of finals (and sick) figure out a way to somehow not fail my classes, unable to attend in person. I did, my clinical instructor had my back through it all and i dropped all of my classes after finals and left Lewis. I reached out to numerous "authority" figures at Lewis who basically told me the nursing school is their own entity and they have not much control. I am no longer pursuing nursing as a result of what I experienced here at Lewis. I hope Maureen is enjoying her retirement.
