Does anyone else have classmates that try to bully you?
I have been in an LPN to RN bridge program since January. I thought going into it we would all be older and more experienced, so there wouldn't be that much drama. Wrong.
First semester we had OB/women's health. In class there was one other student who asked tons of questions and we had similar views on things, so at first I thought we would be freinds except I realized she is very blunt, loud, and bossy but not in a good way. I found out during lab that I have a weird talent for knowing how dilated a cervix is with the feel of my fingers. Yikes. But the professors were making comments and joking how they needed to get me into the OB specialty immediately and this seemed to greatly annoy her. We had a test the day before and she told me she didn't do well on it. She asked me my grade and I made an A so I was honest and told her.
We had a lab simulation of a postpartum hemorrhage. I hate lab simulations because I feel so awkward during them plus there's 5 of us in there trying to figure out what to do. Things were getting nuts with the mannequin bleeding out, so me and another student started massaging the fundus. This woman is taller and larger than me and she SHOVED ME OUT OF THE WAY with her shoulders and took over massaging the fundus. I didn't react because I was thinking, "Did she really just do that to me?" and then downplayed it in my head because it was a stressful simulation and I thought maybe she was panicking.
We ended up being in clinicals together for two semesters. During our med-surg rotation we were each assigned a different nurse to shadow. I was walking down the hallway with the nurse I'm assigned for the day and she calls for me to come here because she "has a job for me." and then procedes to tell me her patient needs a suppository and she thinks it would be good experience for me because I was an office nurse. I wasn't going to deal with her acting like my boss so I asked her why she was trying to push her task off onto me and I already had things to do for patients with my assigned nurse. Her response with an absolutely nasty smirk was, "Well we were going to make you do it." I told her absolutely not and asked her why she would think that's okay. She then started saying, "I just thought you would want the experience, nobody is trying to bully you!" Maybe I overreacted to this and it might sound like she was trying to help, but I could tell she was targeting me and I am not dealing with that. She tries to control freak everything and seems to really need validation from professors and our clinical instructors.
Then there is another girl in my class who asks me my grades *every single time* we take a test. She will wait for me in the hallway just to ask me how I did. At the beginning of the semester we exchanged numbers and I messaged her my name with my number. I have sent her quizlets I use to study and materials I use. We have been in class together for 7 months and had our second semester med-surg clinical rotation together. The day before our second semester final she started calling me by the wrong name. First she said "Hey Brittany, your shoe is untied." I was like my name isn't Brittany??? but we do have a Brittany in our class. I laughed it off. The next morning of the final she said "Hey Brittany do you remember the answer to that practice question?" I I pointed to the Brittany in our class and said hey THAT'S Brittany. She said oh sorry you just look like a Brittany! Then after the final she was waiting outside the classroom as always and asked me how I did. I said I did well and she looked me up and down because I was wearing a dress and asked me who was taking me out. I said nobody I was just going home to be with my kids. When I said bye to everyone she said, "Bye Britt... oh, I mean, (correct name)!" Acting like this after I tried to help her out and send her study material because she wasn't doing well and I was trying to be nice to her is wild to me.
Thankfully those are the only two people, but for some reason it's ALWAYS ME who gets targeted by these weird bullying behaviors from others! Most of the other people in our class are very nice though.
Does anyone else deal with weird / bizarre behavior like this from classmates?